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DRCongo denies selling uranium to Iran
Kinshasa, Aug 9, 2006 The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday denied a British press report that it sold uranium to Iran. "The Shinkolobwe uranium mine (south-east DRC) has been officially closed since 1960 because it cost so much to exploit. Today, the DRC does not have the capacity to treat uranium and has never sold it to Iran," Congolese government spokesman Henri Mova Sakanyi told AFP. Shinkolobwe ... more Nagasaki warns against nuclear arms on A-bomb anniversary
Tokyo, Aug 9, 2006 Malaysia needs nuclear power: official
Kuala Lumpur, Aug 9, 2006 Malaysia has to turn to nuclear power as an alternative source of electricity for its rapidly growing economy, an official from a nuclear agency said. Noramly Muslim, the chairman of the Malaysian Nuclear Licensing Board, said Malaysia would need at least two nuclear reactors, state Bernama news agency reported. He said nuclear energy was seen as the best alternative to depleting oil and ... more Portugal's Azores islands to have nuclear monitoring station
Lisbon, Aug 7, 2006 A nuclear monitoring station will be built next year on Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores archipelago as part of a global network to detect nuclear explosions, an official said Monday. The station on Flores island, one of the group's nine volcanic islands, will help enforce the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which bans all nuclear explosions, the head of the island's science foundation, ... more US official says Indian nuclear deal 'on track'
New Delhi, Aug 7, 2006 A senior US official said Monday a controversial US-India civilian nuclear energy deal was "on track," a report said. "The agreement is on track (and) is moving swiftly forward," US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard A. Boucher told a business gathering in New Delhi, the Press Trust of India news agency said. "The US Senate will examine the contents of the ag ... more |
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Moscow, Aug 3, 2006 Russia urged Iran on Thursday to heed a United Nations Security Council resolution giving the Islamic republic until the end of the month to suspend uranium enrichment activities. "We expect the Iranian side to heed calls addressed to it. Then no further measures from the UN Security Council will be required," Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement. Russia, which is building Iran' ... more Swiss court allows release of evidence in Libyan nuclear probe
Geneva, Aug 3, 2006 Switzerland's supreme court on Thursday cleared the way for legal assistance to German authorities investigating alleged smuggling of material for Libya's nuclear weapons programme in 2001 to 2003. In a ruling released Thursday, the Federal Tribunal rejected an appeal by the owners of a South African company, who had sought to block the transfer of Swiss banking documents to Germany. The ... more Sweden's nuclear emergency cools off
Stockholm, Aug 5, 2006 Swedish atomic experts on Saturday declared an end to emergency proceedings prompted by a nuclear reactor blackout as technicians were working around the clock to investigate the incident. On Friday, Sweden said it would not close down any more nuclear power stations, after problems forced a halt to operations at four of the country's 10 reactors, in connection with a potentially dangerous f ... more Iran says it will not suspend uranium enrichment
Tehran, Aug 6, 2006 Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Sunday that his country will not suspend uranium enrichment despite a UN resolution calling for a freeze of the sensitive nuclear work. "Our activities respect the Non-Proliferation Treaty... so we will not accept the suspension (of uranium enrichment)," he told a news conference, in the first formal reaction to the July 31 resolution. "The ... more Top Iran official: nuclear work will continue
Caracas, Aug 4, 2006 Iran will not stop its controversial nuclear work despite a UN resolution calling for a halt by month's end, the Islamic republic's deputy foreign minister told Latin American television Friday. "None of these measures can force Iran to put aside its peaceful activities to obtain nuclear technology," Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi told Telesur television, according to a Spanish ... more |
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New Delhi, Aug 6, 2006 Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said his country may react harshly to a UN resolution that seeks suspension of Tehran's nuclear programme by the end of August, a report said Sunday. "They want to put pressure on us but it won't have any effect. If anything, it may lead to a very harsh reaction by us," Larijani told the Hindu newspaper in an interview. Last week the UN Security ... more Diplomat's expulsion to hit India, Pakistan ties: New Delhi
New Delhi, Aug 5, 2006 India warned Saturday the expulsion of one of its diplomats from Pakistan would "undermine" an ongoing peace process between the two South Asian nuclear rivals. "Such action as has been taken by the government of Pakistan could not but undermine the bilateral relations between the two countries," Indian foreign ministry spokesman Nevtej Sarna said in New Delhi. India ordered out a Pakist ... more Little cause for optimism in Iran crisis: German ex-FM Fischer
Berlin, Aug 2, 2006 Former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer has told a German newspaper he sees "little cause for optimism" in the standoff over Iran's nuclear programme. "Iran's official announcements on the UN resolution are clearly negative," Fischer, who is on a four-day visit to Iran, told Thursday's edition of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, according to an advance extract. But he said that Western d ... more Swedish nuclear capacity halved, reactor incident probed
Stockholm, Aug 3, 2006 Swedish nuclear capacity halved, reactor inciden to be probed
Stockholm, Aug 3, 2006 Sweden's nuclear energy capacity was cut to half on Thursday after the authorities shut down five of the country's 10 reactors, four of them in connection with a potentially dangerous failure at a nuclear power plant last week. The authorities have launched an investigation into last week's power blackout at the Forsmark nuclear power station on the east coast. The blackout led to the im ... more
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