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Brazil not talking uranium enrichment with Iran: officialBrasilia (AFP) Feb 4, 2010 Brazil has not discussed enriching uranium for Iran under an international deal, its foreign ministry said Thursday, contradicting an Iranian official's reported comments that the South American nation might take on that role. "There have not been any conversations about enriching nuclear fuel in Brazil," a ministry spokesman told AFP. He was reacting to a reported comment by Iran's atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi that Tehran would be willing to send its stocks of low-enriched uranium (LEU) ... read more |
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Saint Petersburg, Russia (AFP) Feb 1, 2010A cargo loaded with depleted uranium from France docked Monday in Russia's port city of Saint Petersburg, Greenpeace said, as Russian activists protested at the nuclear waste exports. "The Kapitan Kuroptev, loaded with 650 tonnes of depleted uranium, has arrived in Saint Petersburg," the Russian branch of the environmental watchdog said in a statement. The uranium, from French nuclear gi ... more 
Riyadh (AFP) Feb 1, 2010The Saudi government on Monday approved joining the Nuclear Safety Convention, the UN nuclear watchdog agency's pact on maintaining safety in nuclear power plants. In its weekly meeting, the cabinet approved accession to the 1994 convention, which has 66 members and is overseen by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, the official SPA news agency reported. The world's numb ... more 
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 29, 2010UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukio Amano said Friday his agency was still trying to negotiate a uranium enrichment deal amid new Western warnings to the Islamic state over its atomic programme. "Our proposal is on the table. Dialogue is continuing," the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Amano, who took over as hea ... more |
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New synthetic material traps nuclear wasteEvanston, Ill. (UPI) Jan 27, 2009 Northwestern University scientists say they've created a material that can trap the radioactive ion cesium while ignoring harmless ions such as sodium. Researchers led by Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis said their synthetic material is made from layers of a gallium, sulfur and antimony compound. They said it has been extremely successful in removing cesium - found in nuclear waste, but very difficult to clean up - from a sodium-heavy solution that consisted of concentrations similar to those fo ... read more |
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