Japan
Operators of nuclear power plants and oil refineries on the west coast of central Japan said on Monday their facilities were not affected by a powerful earthquake that shook the area on Sunday.
Reuters 26th March 2007
North Korea
John Bolton’s body is out of the State department,” commented Christopher Hill, US negotiator with North Korea, over lunch, “but his hand is still in.” Mr Bolton is seeking to shoot down Mr Hill’s promising February 13 denuclearisation agreement with Pyongyang by reviving the increasingly dubious 2002 CIA assessment that the Kim Jong-il regime has a secret weapons-grade uranium enrichment plant. Unless Mr Kim discloses where the plant is located and opens it up to inspectors, argue Mr Bolton and allies in the Bush administration, the denuclearisation deal should be called off.
FT 26th March 2007
Iran
UK and Iran are now on opposite ends of an escalating international crisis over Tehran’s nuclear programme and its role in Iraq.
FT 26th March 2007
Iran has responded to the latest round of UN sanctions by announcing a partial suspension of co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Independent 26th March 2007
Scotsman 26th March 2007
BBC 25th March 2007
Interactive Investor 25th March 2007
The European Union’s foreign policy chief is hoping to resume talks with Iran over its nuclear programme, a day after UN sanctions were stiffened.
BBC 25th March 2007
Radhealth
In the early 1990s, Rob Edwrds helped Susan D’Arcy write a book about the loss of her young daughter, Gemma, to leukaemia – a loss for which she blamed the Sellafield nuclear plant in north west England. The book was published in the UK by Bloomsbury in 1995, and translated into six languages. Twelve years on it is not easy to find, though it is still relevant to the arguments over nuclear power. So it has been put online.
www.robedwards.com, 21 March 2007
