Japan
The International Atomic Energy Agency should inspect an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant as quickly as possible before any clean-up that might obscure the extent of the damage, the head of the opposition Social Democratic party of Japan has urged.
FT 26th July 2007 more >>
Japan, which has no oil or gas to speak of, cannot contemplate life without nuclear power. Japan’s paranoia about being a resource-poor country, arguably the biggest factor behind its disastrous imperial adventures of the 1930s, is underestimated abroad.
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Submarines
ROLLS-ROYCE has unveiled a ground-breaking £1 billion contract with the Ministry of Defence to help keep Royal Navy submarines at sea.
Scotsman 26th July 2007 more >>
Pakistan
Pakistan said it successfully test-fired a cruise missile Thursday capable of delivering nuclear warheads deep into India.
Guardian website 26th July 2007 more >>
India
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said on Wednesday that a just-completed nuclear deal with India complies with U.S. law, but some experts doubted that, and lawmakers said the agreement could face a rough road in the U.S. Congress.
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India and the US edged closer to a ground-breaking agreement on civil nuclear co-operation after two Indian cabinet committees approved the terms of the deal.
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Radwaste
Opinion by Jim Al-Khalili is professor of physics and professor of the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. Here we are trying to figure out how to avert the disaster of climate change now, and yet the long-term problem of nuclear waste still worries us. Human civilisation started less than 10,000 years ago, so to worry whether we’ll be technologically advanced enough to deal with this buried waste thousands of years in the future, assuming we survive climate change, is utterly irrational.
Guardian 26th July 2007 more >>
British Energy
Power group British Energy led the way down yesterday as leading shares struggled for direction. The company lost 26.5p to 482.5p after Goldman Sachs cut its price target from 574p to 570p and reduced its earnings per share forecasts for the next four years. Traders also noted there had been more trading than usual in the company’s shares in the past couple of days, prompting talk that a large investor was selling stock.
Guardian 26th July 2007 more >>
Terror
Letter: Rachman is terribly wrong to minimise the risk of nuclear terrorism. We know that al-Qaeda has tried to get nukes, and that Pakistan’s A. Q. Khan traded nuclear expertise and technology. And while Mr Rachman is correct that Russia and the US have taken serious steps to secure former Soviet nuclear materials, he is wrong to imply that enough has been done. Many tons of ex-Soviet plutonium have yet to be disposed of, and nuclear fuel and spent fuel are being produced and stored in far too many places in dozens of countries.
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Libya
Libya took another big step towards reintegrating itself back into the international community Wednesday night after it signed a series of wide-ranging co-operation agreements with France in areas that included defence, health, education and civilian nuclear power.
FT 26th July 2007 more >>
Burma
Russia has agreed to build a nuclear reactor there.
Independent 26th July 2007 more >>
