Every weekday before dawn, a morning migration takes place near the desert on Africa’s southwestern coast. At 5:30 in the Namibian enclave Swakopmund, whose century-old buildings still bear the imprint of German colonization, solitary men in khaki uniforms emerge from … Read the rest
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Mossad contradicts Bibi’s bom
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2012 statement at the UN, in which he warned the world of Iran being too close to making a nuclear bomb, allegedly contradicted his country’s intelligence assessments, according to leaked spy documents.
The Mossad shared the … Read the rest
Russia, Iran ink deal for 8 nuclear power units
Russia is to build eight nuclear power units in Iran, as a new partnership agreement, guaranteed by the IAEA, was signed in Moscow on Tuesday.
The head of the Rosatom, Sergey Kirienko, and the chief of the Atomic Energy Agency … Read the rest
Oz signs away nuclear material to India
Australia’s agreement to provide India with uranium could leave Canberra with no say on the use of nuclear material shipped to India, the former head of Australia’s nuclear watchdog said Friday.
“[Australian authorities] clearly left out a number of things … Read the rest
Finland, Turkey get Russian VVER1200 NPP
These latest design VVER1200 NPP’s have 60 year life span, with 20% reduction in build cost and time, and 10% reduction in operating cost.
Turkey ordered 4 of these NPPs. Same process as SA: State deal subsequently approved by parliament. … Read the rest
These latest design VVER1200 NPP’s have 60 year life span, with 20% reduction in build cost and time, and 10% reduction in operating cost.
Turkey ordered 4 of these NPPs. Same process as SA: State deal subsequently approved by parliament. … Read the rest
Remember Chernobyl?
The 1986 Ukrainian nuclear disaster of Chernobyl was in nuclear weapons-equivalent terms a very large-sized nuclear device, probably releasing 130 kilograms of very highly enriched uranium and plutonium, as well as other long-lived deadly nuclides.
In very approximate terms this … Read the rest
Stolen uranium prompts SA probe
South African police have launched an investigation into how two Mozambican men obtained a kilogramme of uranium which they tried to sell in Durban, a spokesman said Tuesday.
“We’re trying to establish which mine it came from and how it … Read the rest
Zim reporter denies uranium story
Zimbabwean police are looking for two journalists from the British newspaper, The Times over a story about a secret uranium export deal between Zimbabwe and Iran, a state newspaper reported Sunday.
The two Times journalists, Jan Raath and Jerome Starkey, … Read the rest
Zim to supply Iran with uranium
Zimbabwe has breached international sanctions with an agreement to supply Iran with uranium to fuel its nuclear programme.
Zimbabwean Deputy Mining Minister Gift Chimanikire said: “I have seen [a memorandum of understanding] to export uranium to the … Read the rest