Is Russia Working on a Massive Dirty Bomb?
Russian Nuclear Forces Project
On November 10, 2015 President Putin held a regular meeting with his generals in Sochi to discuss development of the Russian strategic forces. The president used the occasion to complain again about U.S. missile defense plans and to warn that Russia will do whatever it takes to preserve the strategic balance.
Russia Working to Pierce ‘Any Missile Shield’: Putin
Agence France-Presse
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged Russia would build weapons that could pierce any anti-missile shield as he accused the United States and its allies of looking to shackle Moscow’s nuclear capabilities.
Licence Granted for Finnish Used Fuel Repository
World Nuclear News
The Finnish government has today granted a construction licence to waste management specialist Posiva for a used nuclear fuel encapsulation plant and final disposal facility at Olkiluoto.
Iran Nuclear Report at Center of Dispute Said to Come Dec. 2
Jonathan Tirone | Bloomberg
Did Iran’s past nuclear work include possible military dimensions? The question at the center of Iran’s dispute with world powers might be answered on Dec. 2, when investigators plan to publish a report on Iran’s nuclear past, according to three people familiar with the situation.
The Fuel for a Nuclear Bomb is in the Hands of an Unknown Black Marketeer From Russia, U.S. Officials Say
Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith | Center for Public Integrity
Western concerns are based on a simple trail of evidence that officials have until now kept secret: Three times since 1999, identically packaged containers of highly-enriched uranium have been seized by authorities outside of Russia — in Ruse, Bulgaria, in May 1999; in Paris in July 2001; and most recently in Chisinau.
Review Nuclear Fuel Cycle Program
Japan Times
The decision by nuclear power regulators to call for a change in the operator of Monju, the nation’s sole prototype fast-breeder reactor, not only puts the fate of the trouble-prone project in question but raises serious doubts about the government’s decades-old policy of seeking to establish a nuclear fuel cycle.