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BBC News
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Russia has delivered its first shipment of nuclear fuel to a reactor it is helping to build at Bushehr in Iran.
The two sides reached agreement last week on a schedule to finish building the plant after years of delays.
Some Western countries fear I..
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BBC News
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Russia and Iran have agreed a schedule for finishing building the Bushehr nuclear plant, reports from Russia say.
"Difficulties with the Iranian client are resolved and we have agreement on the timetable for construction," said the state contractor, At..
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BBC News
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Thousands of cancer patients around the world face long delays in tests because a nuclear reactor in Canada supplying radioisotopes has been shut down.
Doctors have described the shortage of medical nuclear material as "potentially catastrophic".
Th..
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CNN
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Pakistan, a South Asian nation with nuclear capability, says it has successfully test-fired a new missile that "can carry all types of warheads."
The army said in a statement that the country on Saturday fired an "air-launched cruise missile called Hat..
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BBC News
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North Korea has shut down all five nuclear facilities at its main Yongbyon complex, International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei says.
IAEA monitors in North Korea had verified the four new closures, Mr ElBaradei told journalists in Malays..
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USA Today
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A powerful earthquake toppled drums of nuclear waste and triggered other problems at the world's biggest nuclear plant, raising the possibility of a second radioactive leak there, Japanese officials said Tuesday.
The earthquake Monday off the Japanes..
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BBC News
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Japanese officials have confirmed further leaks of radioactive material from a nuclear power plant following Monday's earthquake in central Japan.
In addition to a leak of radioactive water, drums containing nuclear waste burst open and radioactive gas..
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BBC News
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Instructions on how to build a nuclear reactor have been revealed from five sealed envelopes that have lain hidden for almost 70 years.
The documents were sent to the UK's Royal Society for safekeeping by James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, duri..
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CNN
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The British government will launch an investigation on Wednesday into claims that former nuclear plant workers at a state-owned facility who died in the 1960s and 1970s may have had body parts removed without consent.
Unions representing workers in the..
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USA Today
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Iran on Monday announced it was prepared to start "industrial scale" enrichment of uranium, expanding a key nuclear process that the United Nations has demanded it halt.
The announcement came as Iran celebrated its first success in enriching small amou..
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CNN
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Iran on Sunday announced it was partially suspending cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency while hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the latest U.N. Security Council sanctions would not halt the country's nuclear enrichment "even for a..
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NPR
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Several key figures in Iran's nuclear arms program trained at M.I.T. during the mid-1970s, according to an article by Boston Globe reporter Farah Stockman.
The scientists were part of an optimistic American program to encourage Iran to invest in expens..
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Reuters
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to brief the U.N. Security Council about his country's civilian nuclear plans, which the West says is a covert attempt to make bombs, state media reported on Sunday.
The five permanent members of the Council..
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Yahoo News
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The United States and North Korea haggled on Monday over energy aid the North would receive in exchange for ending its nuclear arms ambitions as six-party talks looked likely to straggle into an extra day. The initially promising session of talks falte..
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Reuters
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked the 28th anniversary of Iran's revolution on Sunday pledging to pursue the country's nuclear program but announcing no new atomic work that would have riled the West. Ahmadinejad, under pressure at home to t..
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Los Angeles Times
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The squat, tan buildings with barred windows can be reached only by driving well outside the city to a flat stretch of desert on the edge of the hills. The site is surrounded by an array of antiaircraft artillery emplacements, each with one or two soldier..
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Newsday
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It was one of the most serious cases of smuggling of nuclear material in recent years: A Russian man, authorities allege, tried to sell a small amount of nuclear-bomb grade uranium in a plastic bag in his jacket pocket...
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New York Times
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Iran vowed today to continue to develop its nuclear program and to reconsider its relations with the international nuclear monitoring agency, taking a defiant stance in response to the Security Council’s approval on Saturday of sanctions intended to cur..
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BBC News
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Israel's leader has played down what is being seen as an embarrassing slip when he appeared to admit the country had a nuclear arms capability...
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Yahoo News
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Robert Gates, the incoming U.S. secretary of defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candor on the Iraq war...
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