Sizewell
PROTESTERS yesterday blocked a private road leading to a power station for more than two hours in an attempt to highlight the threat terrorists could pose if the nuclear industry was expanded. Demonstrators said they stood a few hundred metres from the plant at Sizewell, Suffolk for 15 minutes without being challenged.
Scotland on Sunday 2nd Dec 2007 more >>
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US – new nukes
Dr Patrick Moore was a co-founder of Greenpeace, but after 15 years of campaigning against nuclear energy he had a Damascene conversion and now lobbies for the nuclear industry through Greenspirit, a Canadian-based consultancy.
Sunday Times 2nd Dec 2007 more >>
Syria
ISRAEL’S top-secret air raid on Syria in September destroyed a bomb factory assembling warheads fuelled by North Korean plutonium, a leading Israeli nuclear expert has told The Sunday Times.
Sunday Times 2nd Dec 2007 more >>
Iran
Iran was not to blame for the disappointment expressed by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana after key talks in London on the nuclear crisis, its chief negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Saturday. “The fact is that we defended the Iranian nation’s rights and stressed fulfilling our duties and that the Iranian nation will not accept anything that goes beyond the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,” he said.
Africasia 1st Dec 2007 more >>
Further U.N. sanctions will not solve the row with the West over Iran’s disputed nuclear plans, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, a day after six world powers discussed imposing new penalties on Tehran.
Christian Today 2nd Dec 2007 more >>
A third UN resolution imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme could be agreed within weeks. A compromise text on a new resolution will be circulated among the six countries involved – the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.
Sky News 2nd Dec 2007 more >>
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John Bolton, the hawkish former US ambassador to the UN, says Tehran’s nuclear threat is growing and it will have to be halted by force.
Sunday Times 2nd Dec 2007 more >>
Korea
South Korea is proposing to use North Korean nuclear fuel rods, to be removed from a reactor under a six-nation disarmament deal, for South Korean power plants,
AFX 2nd Dec 2007 more >>