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Russia proposes nuclear conglomerate with UkraineKiev (AFP) April 27, 2010 Russia has proposed setting up a nuclear conglomerate with Ukraine, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said early Tuesday. Quoted by Russian news agencies Putin, speaking after a meeting in Kiev with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, said: "It would mean full and entire cooperation between our nuclear industries." The Russian strongman went on: "We propose to create a major conglomerate that would include joint production of nuclear energy, nuclear construction, as well as the cycle of n ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 15, 2010Russia on Thursday shut down its last weapons-grade plutonium reactor, in line with a pledge made at a nuclear security summit in Washington this week, officials said. "It was shut down today at 0400 GMT," Yelena Golovinkina, a spokeswoman for the Mining-Chemical Complex in the Siberian city of Zheleznogorsk, which houses the reactor, told AFP. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had pledg ... more 
Santiago, Chile (UPI) Apr 14, 2010 A Chilean-U.S. nuclear waste disposal arrangement was nearly derailed, with dangerous consequences for North and South America, when a magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile Feb. 27, interfering with deliveries of radioactive waste to U.S. processing plants. Chilean reports on the narrowly missed mishap involving the weapons-grade uranium, published by The Santiago Times, weren't immedia ... more 
Washington (AFP) April 13, 2010From gunmen storming a nuclear site in South Africa to Russian workers scheming to sell uranium, security breaches in recent years have raised fears about the safety of the world's nuclear material. With securing weapons-grade uranium and plutonium the focus of a 47-nation summit underway in Washington, here is a brief summary of incidents over the past two decades in which nuclear materials ... more |
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Summit agrees to secure nuclear materials in four years Washington (AFP) April 13, 2010 President Barack Obama declared the world safer Tuesday after a 47-nation summit agreed to a four-year deadline on securing vulnerable nuclear materials from terrorists. "Because of the steps we've taken," Obama told a news conference following the summit in Washington, "the American people will be safer and the world will be more secure." The unprecedented gathering met the challenge posed by Obama, who said the world was littered with poorly guarded fissile material and that a nuclear-armed mi ... read more |
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