Israel supporting diplomacy over Iran – for the time being
Iran looms over Israeli minister’s meetings in U.S. – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs. 28 April 2010, The United States is seeking tough new sanctions “to sharpen the choices that Iran’s leaders face” after weekend talks between the Iranian government and the International Atomic Energy Agency failed to make progress on a deal over Iran’s nuclear program, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday……
Iran was high on the agenda in talks between Clinton and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Washington on Tuesday. Barak left the State Department for further talks on Iran with Defense Secretary Robert Gates.In a joint news conference at the Pentagon with Barak, Gates said he was satisfied with the planning process by the United States to prepare for a nuclear Iran. …
“At this stage it is time for sanctions and diplomacy,” Barak told reporters….
Israeli officials say they believe their government will give the sanctions effort about a year to see whether they put sufficient pressure on Iran before debating other options. Iran looms over Israeli minister’s meetings in U.S. – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs
Britain’s “privatised” nuclear industry owned by French state company
Foreign governments are nationalizing British assets | TopNews United Kingdom by Shamsher Singh on Sun, 04/25/2010 – Britain’s craze for privatisation of industries such as rail, nuclear and utilities has been moving country’s important assets to foreign nations…….French firm EDF owns nuclear power group British Energy,…Foreign governments are nationalizing British assets | TopNews United Kingdom
Uranium mining deal between Iran and Zimbabwe
The pact seems certain to place Iran under even greater scrutiny by the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Iran strikes secret nuclear mining deal with Mugabe regime, zimbabwemetro.com, Raymond Mhaka on Apr 25th, 2010 The agreement was sealed last month during a visit to Tehran by a close aide to Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president who last weekend celebrated 30 years in power, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. Continue reading
AREVA’s nuclear tentacles now embracing Kuwait
France And Kuwait Ink Nuclear Power Agreement, Nuclear Street, 21 April 2010, Areva and EDF are promoting the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), a newreactor design that France considers one of the most advanced in the world – By April Murelio -An agreement “to develop the peaceful use of nuclear energy” has been signed in Paris by Kuwait’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmad al-Sabah, and French government officials.Areva and EDF are promoting the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), a third-generation reactor design that France considers the most advanced in the world.Sarkozy vaunted the “safety and reliability” of this reactor and “France’s ability to provide a service covering the whole nuclear energy cycle,”
Belarus will not send its enriched uranium to the Russia or USA stores
Minsk to hold on to its arms-grade uranium – Lukashenko , ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire, 20 April 2010, Belarus has no plans to build a “dirty” nuclear bomb but no one can take its enriched uranium stockpiles away from it, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.”Russia and the United States are telling us – give us your enriched uranium. We will not give anything away. Everything here is under IAEA control. Russia tells America: Calm down, we will take it from there [Belarus]. No one will take anything without our consent. We will not allow that,” he said in a state-of-the-nation address.
Lukashenko added that his strained relations with Russia and the United States were due, among other things, to its reluctance to give away enriched uranium.
Pro nuclear push discredits Nuclear Non Proliferation meeting
The serious proliferation risks associated with peaceful nuclear programs will be studiously ignored at the five-yearly Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York next month…..the task of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not only to carry out safeguards inspections to assess NPT compliance, but also to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy. It would make as much sense to ask drug enforcement agencies to promote the cultivation of poppy seeds.
The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom, newmatilda.com, By Jim Green, 20 April 2010, Recent nuclear talk-fests have quietly ignored the fact that even so-called ‘peaceful nuclear programs’ — like power generation — can be used for proliferation, writes Jim Green Continue reading
Iran now willing to discuss swapping its enriched uranium
Iran wants to reopen talks about a nuclear fuel swap, guardian.co.uk, Julian Borger, 19 April 2010, As a new sanctions resolution is discussed at the Security Council, Tehran has sent signals it might still be prepared to strike a deal over its uranium stockpile….. Continue reading
U.S. govt has no real policy to counter iran’s development of nuclear capability
Gates Says U.S. Lacks a Policy to Thwart Iran, By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKERPublished: April 17, 2010 WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability, according to government officials familiar with the document.
Nuclear Fuel Summit recycling decisions in the interests of AREVA
Former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans and former U.S. ambassador-at-large Robert Gallucci said that recycling creates stockpiles of dangerous materials at risk for theft
Nuclear-Fuel Recycling Debated , Nuclear Street, by Steve Heiser, 15 April 2010, Bloomberg: As Obama SummitNations voice differing opinions on the recycling of spent fuel at DC summit – Edited by April Murelio –According to a report by Bloomberg, debate over the recycling of nuclear fuel by reactor suppliers such as France’s Areva SA surfaced in Washington as U.S. officials sought to skirt the issue during President Barack Obama’s summit. Continue reading
New York city start for the anti-nuclear renaissance
It’s also the anti-nuclear movement’s opportunity to excite the American people with a vision of what a world free of nuclear weapons looks like and how to get from here to there..
The New Anti-Nuclear Movement, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Frida Berrigan:, 16 April 2010, “………NPT FocusAt the end of April, people will be coming to New York City from all over the world to participate in and monitor the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. They will gather at the “For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World” conference at Riverside Church in Manhattan on April 30 and May 1. Continue reading
Iran holding disarmament conference, and preparing for next New York one.
the conference would serve as preparation for the next NPT review meeting in New York early next month, which Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki plans to attend.
Ahmadinejad to give opening speech at Iran nuclear summit, Google News hosting, (AFP) – 17 April 2010, TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will give the opening speech at a weekend nuclear disarmament conference to be attended by 24 foreign and deputy foreign ministers, official media reported….. Continue reading
India’s anger at Pakistan’s production of nuclear technology
India to fight Pak agenda at disarmament conference, The Times of India, Sachin Parashar, TNN, Apr 16, 2010, NEW DELHI: With the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon desperately seeking to revive the Conference on Disarmament (CD) by calling for a meet on fissile material cut-off in September, India is preparing for a showdown with Pakistan which has singlehandedly managed to block any forward movement in CD citing its security concerns vis-a-vis India. Continue reading
Talks on N. Korea’s nuclear disarmament risked since ship sank
S. Korean ship sinking may affect 6-way talks revival: State Dept. By HwangDoo-hyong WASHINGTON, April 15 (Yonhap) — The sinking of a South Korean naval ship in waters near the disputed sea border with the North may undermine international efforts to revive the six-party talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear dismantlement, the State Department said Thursday.YONHAP NEWS
Iran has produced Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)
Iran announces batch of higher enriched uranium, Google News Hosting, (AP) – 15 April 2010, TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says his country has produced five kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium, a move in open defiance of the U.N. demands to halt the controversial program.
Iran says it needs the material for a medical research reactor, and the level of enrichment is far below the more than 90 percent pure uranium needed to build a nuclear weapon. But U.S. officials have expressed concern the process could be a step toward greater enrichment.The U.S. and its allies accuse Iran of seeking to build a nuclear weapon, a claim Iran denies. The Associated Press: Iran announces batch of higher enriched uranium
Old Russian nuclear warheads to become fuel for U.S. commercial nuclear reactors
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