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Political clashes underline limits to intelligence reform - Los Angeles Times

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:18:53 -0000

WASHINGTON -- As head of analysis for all U.S. spy agencies, Thomas Fingar was making final edits last summer on a long-awaited intelligence report on Iran.

The draft concluded that Tehran was still pursuing a nuclear bomb, a finding that echoed previous assessments and would have bolstered Bush administration hawks. Then, just weeks before the report was to be delivered to the White House, new intelligence surfaced indicating that Tehran's nuclear weapons work had stopped.

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Livermore lab fails terror test - ContraCostaTimes.com

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:09:52 -0000

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's protective force failed to deter a mock terrorist attack during a recent security drill, according to a Time magazine report online Monday.

During the simulated night-time attack several weeks ago, a team posing as terrorists was able to defeat the lab's defenses and get hold of their target of pretend nuclear material, according to unnamed sources.

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Shooting accident is third in 9 months by Seabrook Station security officers

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:04:26 -0000

SEABROOK — Three nuclear power plant security officers were the triggermen during separate accidental shootings during the past nine months, according to police.

The most recent incident involved an off-duty Seabrook Station security officer who accidentally shot a 9 mm bullet through his hand and will face criminal charges after making some medical progress, said Seabrook Police Chief Patrick Manthorn.

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Nuclear boom prompts proliferation concerns (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:04:21 -0000

The massive fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986 spread radioactive contamination as far as continental Europe and stifled demand for the commercial development of nuclear power plants for nearly 20 years.

But in the past few years, the number of countries openly pursuing nuclear power has surged.

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Air cargo container with radioactive material leaks near LAX - San Jose Mercury News

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:35:45 -0000

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.—A hazardous materials response team was called to a freight facility near Los Angeles International Airport Saturday after an air cargo container holding low-grade radioactive material was exposed, authorities said.

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Man arrested over theft of radioactive material in Chiba - Mainichi Daily News

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:06:43 -0000

ICHIHARA, Chiba -- A man who stole a container with radioactive material in it from a company here and apparently dumped the substance in a river in Yokohama has been arrested, police said.

Tomonori Iso, 40, was arrested on suspicion of stealing a container of iridium 192 from a storage room at Non-Destructive Inspection Co., in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture. He has reportedly admitted to the allegations against him.

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MWC News - A Site Without Borders - - Nuclear power is undemocratic

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:44:07 -0000

A small group of citizens in California are trying to reclaim their rights -- both those rights taken unconstitutionally by the federal government, and those rights relinquished by their own state agencies to the feds.

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Nuclear Fuel Recycling: More Trouble Than It's Worth: Scientific American

Fri, 02 May 2008 08:32:28 -0000

Although a dozen years have elapsed since any new nuclear power reactor has come online in the U.S., there are now stirrings of a nuclear renaissance. The incentives are certainly in place: the costs of natural gas and oil have skyrocketed; the public increasingly objects to the greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels; and the federal government has offered up to $8 billion in subsidies and insurance against delays in licensing (with new laws to streamline the process) and $18.5 billion in loan guarantees. What more could the moribund nuclear power industry possibly want?

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American arrested as nuclear spy for Israel - Yahoo! News

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:23:53 -0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States arrested an 84-year-old American on Tuesday suspected of giving Israel secrets on nuclear weapons, fighter jets and missiles in the 1980s, in a case linked to the Jonathan Pollard spy scandal that rocked U.S.-Israeli relations.

The arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish indicates that Israeli spying revealed by the Pollard case, still an irritant to the U.S. alliance with Israel, may have spread wider than previously acknowledged.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States arrested an 84-year-old American on Tuesday suspected of giving Israel secrets on nuclear weapons, fighter jets and missiles in the 1980s, in a case linked to the Jonathan Pollard spy scandal that rocked U.S.-Israeli relations. The arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish indicates that Israeli spying revealed by the Pollard case, still an irritant to the U.S. alliance with Israel, may have spread wider than previously acknowledged. posted by theenergynet

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The Associated Press: UN steps up campaign against nuclear, chemical terrorism

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:03:11 -0000

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging stepped-up efforts to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists and black marketeers.

It calls on all states to fully implement a council resolution approved in April 2004 requiring all 192 U.N. member states to adopt laws to prevent "non-state actors" from acquiring nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

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Thinking the unthinkable and doing nothing about it | ScrippsNews

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:13:07 -0000

The next time Islamist terrorists attack us it could be with a nuclear weapon. By saying that, am I "fear mongering"? If so, I'm in good company. Graham Allison is a Harvard professor who served with distinction in the Defense Department under both Presidents Reagan and Clinton. He wrote a book in 2004 arguing that "on the current course, nuclear terrorism is inevitable."

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AFP: US man charged with disclosing nuclear information to Israel

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:03:36 -0000

NEW YORK (AFP) — US authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of a US Army veteran on charges he disclosed secret defense information, including on nuclear weapons, to Israel in a case linked to the huge 1980s Jonathan Pollard spy scandal.

Ben-Ami Kadish, now 84, worked as a mechanical engineer at a US Army weapons center in New Jersey, from where he provided classified documents to Israel's consul for science affairs in New York from 1979 to 1985, the Justice Department said.

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allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Agency Evacuates High-Risk Radioactive Sources (Page 1 of 1)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:08:43 -0000

Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA) yesterday in Abuja said it had evacuated three high-risk radioactive sources from the country.

Director-general, Prof. Shamsideen Elegba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the evacuation was carried out in conjunction with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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Russian Feud Goes to Court in London - New York Times

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:59:33 -0000

LONDON — A long-running feud between two of the richest post-Soviet entrepreneurs reached the High Court in London on Friday.

The court began hearings on a $2 billion lawsuit by Boris Berezovsky, self-exiled in London since 2000, against Roman Abramovich. The two so-called oligarchs amassed fortunes in Russia during the privatization of state-owned assets in the 1990s, when the country’s first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, oversaw a large sell-off of the Soviet Union’s principal industries, including oil and gas.

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The Press Association: Warning over radioactive material

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:37:05 -0000

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Risk of Nuclear Attack on Rise - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:32:46 -0000

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Regional Nuclear War Would Affect Entire Globe - Yahoo! News

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:35:51 -0000

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Radioactive waste of 1966 nuclear accident found - Expatica

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:52:10 -0000

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World Politics Review | British, Russian Support May Not Save Ambitious Nuclear Power Club

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:51:21 -0000

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FPL fined over sleeping security guards - 04/10/2008 - MiamiHerald.com

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:46:30 -0000

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