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Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Peter Eisler - Jan. 18 (Special Report) - Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess.

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Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Rick Gladstone - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver on Wednesday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.

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Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press Staff - Jan. 09 (News Report) - An Iranian court has convicted a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.

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Mysterious explosion rocks Iranian city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - Nov. 30 (News) - An explosion rocked the western Iranian city of Isfahan on Monday, resonating in several parts of the city, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. It is not clear what caused the blast, which has not been officially confirmed by the authorities. A large uranium conversion plant, located some five kilometers from the center of Isfahan, processes uranium chemically to adapt it to the enrichment process with centrifuges carried out in other sites like Natanz.

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Is the end of the world really nigh?

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Alok Jha - Nov. 20 (Special Report) - All too real are the human-caused threats born of climate change, excess pollution, depletion of natural resources and the madness of nuclear weapons. We tinker with our genes and atoms at our own peril. Nanotechnology, synthetic biology and genetic modification offer much potential in giving us better food to eat, safer drugs and a cleaner world, but they could also go wrong if misapplied or if we charge on without due care.

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Does Navy depot pose a danger to public?

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Kyung M. Song - Sep. 12 (Special Report) - It's been eight years since Glen Milner first asked the Navy just how big an explosion could be triggered by an accident or an attack at its munitions depot on Indian Island. And it's been six months since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down one of the Navy's grounds for rejecting Milner's request under the Freedom of Information Act. Now the Department of Defense is back in U.S. District Court in Seattle, where it's pursuing its second legal argument.

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In Cheney’s memoir, it’s clear Iraq’s lessons didn’t sink in

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Bob Woodward - Sep. 12 (Special Report) - A key lesson of the 9/11 decade for presidents and other national security decision makers is the importance of rigorously testing intelligence evidence: poking holes in it, setting out contradictions, figuring out what may have been overlooked or left out. It is essential to distinguish between hard facts and what is an assessment or judgment.

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Safety doubts raised at U.S. nuclear waste cleanup project

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Ralph Vartabedian - Aug. 14 (Investigative Report) - Senior scientists at the site said in emails obtained by The Times that Bechtel's designs for tanks and mixing equipment are flawed, representing such a massive risk that work should be stopped on that part of the construction project. But Energy Department officials in Washington said they believed the problems were fixable and that they had authorized Bechtel to keep going

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Is Karzai's Accusation That Coalition Forces Are Polluting Afghanistan with Nuclear Material Accurate or an Over-Reaction?

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Larry Greenemeier - Jun. 25 (News Report) - President Obama has called for the withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next year and the remaining 68,000 by the end of 2014, but questions linger regarding what the troops are leaving behind after more than nine years of combat. In particular, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has accused U.S. and NATO-led coalition troops of littering

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TEPCO says damage possible to reactor pressure containers

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Asahi - Mar. 29 (News) - TEPCO officials told reporters Monday morning that despite the continuous pumping in of water to cool down the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactor cores, water levels were not rising as expected, meaning the pressure containers may not be completely sealed off.

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Hebrew University's Einstein archives to go online

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Jerusalem Post - By Ben Hartman - Mar. 14 (News Report) - Albert Einstein will go digital in the coming months, as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem begins a project to digitize the German-Jewish physicist's archives. The digitization is expected to take around one year and then the over 80,000 documents will be available on the Albert Einstein Archives website.

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High court rules vs. gov't in open records case

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Nancy Bartley - Mar. 08 (News Report) - The Supreme Court has rejected the government's broad use of an exemption in the federal Freedom of Information Act to withhold documents from the public, ruling for a Washington state resident who wants Navy maps relating to its main West Coast ammunition dump.

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Iran nuclear plans: Bushehr fuel to be unloaded

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 26 (News Report) - Iran confirms it is having to remove nuclear fuel from the Bushehr reactor, in what is seen as a setback for its nuclear ambitions. On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it had new information on "possible military dimensions" to Iran's nuclear plans, which Iran says are purely peaceful. The IAEA will supervise the unloading of fuel from Bushehr, Iran's nuclear envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh said. Iran began the Bushehr project in 1976. Iran's Fars news agency says the fuel is being removed for "technical reasons". The fuel at Bushehr is being provided by Russia, which built the plant and whose engineers will carry out the unloading, under the supervision of the IAEA.

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US-Russia nuclear treaty ratified

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 05 (News Report) - The exchange of documents took place at the Munich Conference on Security Policy The US and Russia have ratified the New Start nuclear arms treaty limiting the number of atomic warheads the two countries are allow

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Big cleanup questions still loom at Hanford

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Craig Welch - Jan. 23 (Special Report) - At the Hanford nuclear reservation, the Department of Energy is building a plant to clean up 53 million gallons of radioactive waste. But after a quarter-century of preparation — and cost estimates that have nearly tripled to $12.2 billion — builders still haven't resolved this project's most vexing technical and safety issues.

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Six-power talks with Iran end without agreement

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Joby Warrick - Jan. 22 (News) - Talks on Iran's nuclear program ended in failure on Saturday after negotiators from the Islamic republic insisted on a halt to economic sanctions before entering serious discussions about its nuclear ambitions.

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International envoys tour key Iranian nuclear site

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Ali Akbar Dareini - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Several international envoys - but crucially none from the world powers - got a look inside an Iranian nuclear site Saturday as part of a tour the Islamic Republic hopes will build support before a new round of talks on its disputed atomic activities. Iran is trying to sell the tour as a gesture of transparency ahead of the Jan. 20-22 talks in Istanbul, Turkey. In a blow to the effort, however, major powers Russia, China and the European Union refused the Iranian invitation. The EU said it should be up to inspectors from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency to verify whether Iran's program is entirely peaceful. Iran's offer pointedly did not include the United States, one of its biggest critics internationally, nor three other Western nations that have been critical of the Iranian program - Britain, France and Germany - and many saw the tour as an attempt to divide the nations conducting the nuclear talks.

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Clinton Tries to Keep Gulf From Easing Iran Sanctions

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Mark Landler - Jan. 10 (News Report) - The secretary of state is urging Iran’s neighbors to keep up pressure despite reports that the country’s progress toward a nuclear bomb has been delayed.

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North Korea threatens nuclear retaliation if South attacks

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Dec. 23 (News Report) - North Korea threatened Thursday to launch a "sacred" nuclear war against South Korea if it attacks, as Seoul staged military exercises that have raised already high tensions on the peninsula. The remarks seemed aimed at revving patriotic spirit on the eve of the 19th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's appointment as the supreme military commander. Defense chief Kim Yong Chun said North Korea is "fully prepared to launch a sacred war" -- and would use its nuclear capabilities -- if attacked and warned the South against intruding even the smallest amount on its territory, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

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Senate Passes Arms Control Treaty With Russia, 71-26

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Peter Baker - Dec. 22 (News Report) - The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a new arms control treaty with Russia, scaling back leftover cold war nuclear arsenals and capping a surprisingly successful lame-duck session for President Obama just weeks after his party’s electoral debacle. The 71 to 26 vote sends the treaty, known as New Start, to the president for his signature, and cements what is probably the most tangible foreign policy achievement of Mr. Obama’s two years in office. Thirteen Republicans joined a unanimous Democratic caucus to vote in favor, exceeding the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution. The ratification vote was the third bipartisan victory for the president in the waning days of the session, while Democrats still control both houses of Congress. The treaty had assumed such symbolic importance for Mr. Obama’s presidency that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took the rare step of presiding personally over the vote, in his role as president of the Senate. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a former Senator, was on the floor as well.

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New START Treaty Gaining Momentum in Senate

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Peter Baker - Dec. 21 (News Report) - The Senate moved closer on Monday to approving a new arms control treaty with Russia over the opposition of Republican leaders as lawmakers worked on a side deal to assure skeptics that the arms pact would not inhibit American plans to build missile defense systems.

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Senate nears key vote on START accord

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By CNN Staff - Dec. 21 (News Report) - Senators prepared to cast a key procedural vote Tuesday on the new arms control treaty with Russia as backers and opponents of the accord made their final arguments. Proponents of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as New START, received a potentially critical boost as a member of the Senate GOP leadership -- Tennessee's Lamar Alexander -- announced his intention to vote for the measure.

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$1.1 trillion spending bill collapses as GOP senators yank support

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Alexander Bolton - Dec. 17 (News) - Democrats will move to two high priorities on their legislative agenda: the DREAM Act and a repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell." Read more...

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Obama faces fight over missile defense as he presses New START ratification

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Mary Beth Sheridan - Dec. 13 (News Report) - With only days left in the lame-duck Congress, President Obama is pushing hard to accomplish something never before done by a Democratic president: successfully get a nuclear arms-reduction treaty through the ratification process.

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Iran says it's now fully self-sufficient at producing uranium

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Ramin Mostaghim - Dec. 05 (News) - An Iranian official announces that the country, suspected by the West and others of plans to build nuclear weapons, has produced yellow-cake uranium. The announcement may be meant to bolster Tehran's bargaining position at talks starting Monday in Geneva.

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