North Korea
Talks on ending North Korea’s nuclear threat will on Tuesday focus on how to disable the reactor at the heart of its atomic programme and then begin mapping out future disarmament steps, the chief U.S. envoy said.
Reuters 19th March 2007
The row between Japan and North Korea over abducted Japanese citizens deepened on Tuesday as the two traded barbs, overshadowing international talks aimed at Pyongyang’s nuclear disarmament.
FT 20th March 2007
British Energy
British Energy is to sell all of the power produced by two of Britain’s oldest nuclear power stations in the few years they have left before retirement, the company said on Monday. Under the terms of the agreement, British Energy will sell all the power from the ageing Wylfa and Oldbury power stations on behalf of their operator — the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
Reuters 19th March 2007
Dounreay
A Conference in Caithness focusing on efforts being made to counter the Dounreay jobs rundown is back on the agenda. Plans were hatched last summer to attract a Government minister to a forum, provisionally entitled Beyond Dounreay. But the initiative had been put on the back-burner.
Aberdeen Press and Journal 19th March 2007
France
A HUGE number of French anti-nuclear demonstrators staged a mass rally in the streets of Rennes on Saturday afternoon to protest against the building of a third reactor at Flamanville, just 30 miles from Jersey.
Jersey Evening Post 19th March 2007
Iran
Iran today warned a new UN resolution against its disputed nuclear programme will face a “proportionate” response and that it is ready to pay the price for pursuing its atomic ambitions.
Interactive Investor 19th March 2007
Star Wars
Thanks to American plans to build parts of a missile defence shield in Poland, the village has suddenly become the centre of a heated global argument over a new, post-Cold War, arms race.
Telegraph 20th March 2007
Nato’s secretary general yesterday dismissed “false arguments” from Russia and German Left-wingers that an American missile defence system would provoke a new arms race.
Telegraph 20th March 2007
