The (Savannah River Site) SRS Citizens Advisory Board will discuss a recommendation to send some or all of the site’s 3,100 “ready for shipment” canisters of stabilized waste to the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., where lower-level “transuranic” nuclear waste is buried in 250 million-year-old salt deposits a half-mile [...]
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Israel’s navy has taken delivery of its fourth Dolphin class submarine built by Germany’s Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, giving the Jewish state the most powerful submarine fleet in the Middle East and boosting its strategic capabilities. The new diesel-electric boat, named the Tannin — Alligator – was handed over during a ceremony at HDW’s Kiel shipyard…The [...] Fifteen people protesting nuclear weapons were arrested for trespassing early Saturday (Feb. 25, 2012) at Vandenberg Air Force Base (United States), where a Minuteman 3 missile that blasted out its silo became the West Coast’s first launch of 2012. The unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile launched at 2:46 a.m. from an underground silo on North [...] The head of a U.N. nuclear team traveling to Iran on Saturday (Jan 28, 2012) urged the country to work with his mission on probing Tehran’s alleged attempts to develop an atomic arms program, adding such cooperation is long overdue.The unusually blunt comments by International Atomic Energy Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts reflected the [...] A Maryland businessman was sentenced Friday (Jan. 6, 2012)to more than three years in prison for conspiring to export to Pakistan materials and equipment that can be used in nuclear reactors and defrauding the United States. Nadeem Akhtar, 46, of Silver Spring, Md., one-time owner of Computer Communications USA of Columbia, was charged with [...] India and Japan will firm up strategic ties during their summit meeting next week with a $4.5-billion grant for an ambitious infrastructure project, announcing Tokyo’s participation in next year’s India-U.S. naval exercises and holding talks on moving ahead with India-Japan-U.S. trilateral cooperation. Talks will also be held on a bilateral civil nuclear cooperation accord. [...] The Braka-1 nuclear plant is slated to operate in 2017, with its three sister plants following at one-year intervals, said William Travers, the UAE’s Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation’s (FANR) director-general.Travers added the Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) team presented its initial findings in Abu Dhabi on its ten-day mission during which they found [...] The National Nuclear Security Administration released the final Request for Proposals for the new multi-billion-dollar contract, which for the first time will combine management of the two plants that perform national security missions in different states 1,000 miles apart. In addition to Y-12 National Secuirty Complex in Oak Ridge and the Pantex Plant near [...] IAEA Report on Iran November 2011 (pdf) Analysis of IAEA Report (pdf) Related posts:Virtual Nuclear Weapons and Wa…Between Politics and Principle…The Last Laugh: Iran or the US…Iranian Nuclear Program: turni… |
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