CAIRO—U.N. inspectors visiting southern Libya found drums containing natural uranium reported missing earlier this month in the chaos-stricken country, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said earlier this month that some 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored at a site in the southern town of Sabha had gone missing. Forces…
Iran Building New Nuclear Plant Amid UN Concerns Over Nuclear Program
Iran has begun building a 300-megawatt nuclear power plant in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, which is expected to cost about $2 billion, the country’s atomic energy agency said on Saturday. Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said the new power plant is being built in the Darkhovin district of…
Russia Denies It Is Planning to Vacate Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant
November 28, 2022
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Pro-Moscow officials have dismissed claims by Kyiv and Ukrainian media outlets that Russian forces and personnel are planning to vacate the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). “Kyiv-controlled media outlets have been actively spreading fake reports that Russia plans to pull out of [the city of] Enerhodar and leave the ZNPP,” Enerhodar’s Moscow-appointed, military-civilian administration said…
Russia Denies That It Plans to Vacate Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant
November 28, 2022
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Pro-Moscow officials have dismissed claims by Kyiv and Ukrainian media outlets that Russian forces and personnel are planning to vacate the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). “Kyiv-controlled media outlets have been actively spreading fake reports that Russia plans to pull out of [the city of] Enerhodar and leave the ZNPP,” Enerhodar’s Moscow-appointed, military-civilian administration said…
Iran Has Enough Uranium Near Weapons-Grade for a Bomb, IAEA Report Shows
Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to up to 60 percent, close to weapons-grade, has grown to enough, if enriched further, for a nuclear bomb, a report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog showed on Wednesday. Passing that threshold is a milestone in the unravelling of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, which…
Iran Enriches to 20 Percent With New Centrifuges at Fortified Site
TEHRAN, Iran—Iran announced Sunday that it has begun enriching uranium up to 20 percent using sophisticated centrifuges at its underground Fordo nuclear plant, state TV reported, an escalation that comes amid a standoff with the West over its tattered atomic deal. That Tehran is enriching uranium up to 20 percent purity—a technical step from weapons-grade…
UN Nuclear Watchdog Scrutinising AUKUS Submarine Safeguards
July 4, 2022
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Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to nuclear non-proliferation after a meeting with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on July 4. Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, was in Adelaide, where he met with the Australian foreign minister to discuss the international security environment, nuclear proliferation risks…
Chornobyl Radiation Detectors Back Online, Levels Normal—IAEA
VIENNA—Radiation detectors in the Exclusion Zone around Ukraine’s defunct Chornobyl nuclear power plant are back online for the first time since Russia seized the area on Feb. 24, and radiation levels are normal, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday. “Most of the 39 detectors sending data from the Exclusion Zone … are now visible…
Power Knocked out at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant: Ukrainian Officials
The International Energy Agency (IAEA) said there has been “no critical impact” on the safety of the Chernobyl nuclear site in Ukraine after Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and other officials issued a warning about a potential radiation leak overnight. Kyiv’s government informed the U.N. nuclear agency at the power plant, said its chief, Rafael Grossi,…
Second Ukraine Nuclear Facility Damaged: UN Nuclear Watchdog
March 8, 2022
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A nuclear research facility in Ukraine has been damaged by Russian shelling, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. There was likely no “radiological consequence” to the facility in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in an update late Monday. Ukraine’s national nuclear regulator told the IAEA that the incident did not cause…
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