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U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 17, 2007 @ 3:00pm neoform

Google Associated Press -- Israeli intelligence officials are in the U.S. trying to convince the Bush administration that Iran is still trying to develop nuclear weapons — contrary to the findings of a recent U.S. intelligence report, security officials said. Prime Minister Eh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 10:10am neoform

OpEd News -- WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in L.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:24am neoform

Washington Post -- A $1.2 billion program to deploy new radiation monitors to screen trucks, cars and cargo containers for signs of nuclear devices has been delayed by questions over whether Department of Homeland Security officials misled Congress about the effectiveness o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 16, 2007 @ 10:49am neoform

Physorg -- The Los Alamos, N.M., National Laboratory reportedly breached national security by sending classified nuclear weapons information over the Internet. The e-mails resulted in "the loss of control of top-secret restricted data," Reps. John Dingell and Ba.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 22, 2007 @ 8:50pm neoform

Sunday Herald -- DOZENS OF people drank, inhaled or were injected with radioactivity as part of a series of secret experiments carried out by the nuclear industry in the 1960s, according to official documents passed to the Sunday Herald. Tests exposing humans to radioa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:21am mrmdc

Associated Press -- A small bar of radium is missing from a former uranium enrichment plant in southern Ohio, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Tuesday. The radioactive ingot, about the size of a medical gel capsule and stored in a glass vial, is not a health or secu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 3, 2007 @ 4:34pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The Bush administration selected a design Friday for a new generation of atomic warheads, taking a major step toward building the first new nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War nearly two decades ago. The military and the Energy Department sele.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 16, 2006 @ 6:46pm neoform

United Press International -- A watchdog group charges a nuclear warhead nearly exploded in Texas when it was being dismantled at the government's Pantex facility near Amarillo... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 11, 2006 @ 8:05am neoform

Washington Post -- When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused, citing a large workload and a desire to protect its sources and tradecraft... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 4, 2006 @ 1:52am neoform

BBC News -- The US government has closed one of its websites that contained documents found during the invasion of Iraq in 2003... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- The trash sent to Barnwell includes protective clothing and gloves, tools, cleaning rags, lab equipment, industrial measuring devices and equipment used to treat cancer patients. It does not include spent fuel from nuclear power plants. The waste is store.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 5, 2007 @ 2:02pm neoform

CNN -- Six nuclear warheads on cruise missiles were mistakenly carried on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, prompting a major investigation, military officials have confirmed. The plane took the cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base to B.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 31, 2007 @ 2:13am neoform

Washington Post -- The first application to build a new U.S. nuclear power plant in three decades has been filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, bumping a proposed third unit at a Calvert County site to the front of a list of reactors being considered by the nuclear.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 8:35am neoform

Washington Post -- Undercover congressional investigators posing as West Virginia businessmen obtained a license with almost no scrutiny from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that enabled them to buy enough radioactive material from U.S. suppliers to build a "dirty bomb,".. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 11:19am neoform

Knoxville News Sentinal -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission revealed in a new report to Congress that a nuclear chain-reaction accident nearly occurred 14 months ago at a nuclear fuels processing plant in Tennessee. About 35 liters, or just over 9 gallons, of highly enriched ur.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 10:34am neoform

SF Gate -- Fresno, a fast-growing former farming community popularly associated with raisins, is seeking a higher-tech image -- as the future home of a nuclear power plant that could supply power for 1.6 million to 2 million homes. "Nuclear power holds great prom.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 11, 2006 @ 11:38pm neoform

Seattle Times -- Nearly one-quarter of America's 9,962 nuclear weapons are now assigned to the Bangor submarine base on Hood Canal, 20 air miles northwest of downtown Seattle... Read More