In Heavy Water - Iran's Potential Plutonium Production

Despite undergoing some delays, Iran's construction of a new heavy water reactor to the northwest of the city of Arak could eventually match the proliferation risk posed by the country's uranium enrichment programme. In 2003, Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its intention to construct the heavy water Iran Nuclear Research Reactor (IR-40). At this time, the IAEA also learned that for nearly 20 years Iran had failed to declare many of its nuclear activities, including the secret development of gas centrifuges for use in the underground uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. 

 

SPIEGEL has learned from intelligence sources that Iran's new president, Hassan Rohani, is reportedly prepared to decommission the Fordo enrichment plant and allow international inspectors to monitor the removal of the centrifuges. 

 

A little-known truth about the Iraq war has much to tell us — positive and negative — about the prospects of dealing diplomatically with Syria’s chemical weapons.

 

India successfully test-fired Agni-V from Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast on Sunday. The ballistic missile is capable of delivering a nuclear warhead with high precision within a strike range of 5,000 km. 

 

Brazil will probably scale down its plans for new nuclear plants due to safety concerns following the 2011 radiation leak in Japan and pick up some of the slack with a "revolution" in wind power, the head of the government's energy planning agency said.

 

The U.N. nuclear watchdog will gain wider inspection powers in Myanmar under an agreement to be signed this week, in a further sign of the formerly army-ruled Asian state opening up to the outside world.