Nuclear Transgressions by Syria
IN THIS ISSUE: Syria's nuclear transgressions, Japan makes new nuclear safety vows, House panel cuts $1 Billion in nuclear agency funds, China schedules Agni-V Test, Germany hastens first reactor closures, future of nuclear power in minireactors.
Syria's Nuclear Transgressions Mark Hibbs | Carnegie Q&A
Israel destroyed a building in the Syrian desert nearly four years ago that both the United States and Israel argue was a covert nuclear reactor designed to produce plutonium.
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Yoko Kubota | Reuters
Japan on Tuesday pledged to overhaul regulation of nuclear power, saying that lax standards and poor oversight had contributed to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. Full Article
Martin Matishak | Global Security News
An influential congressional panel on Thursday adopted a fiscal 2012 spending bill that would cut nearly $1 billion in proposed funding from U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration's weapons and nonproliferation programs. Full Article
Rajat Pandit | Times of India
India finally plans to test its most ambitious strategic missile Agni-V, with near ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) capabilities, this December after some delay. Full Article
World Nuclear News
Three of Germany's operating nuclear reactors will close before the end of the decade under draft legislation which firms up the arrangements leading to a phaseout of nuclear power. Full Article
Christopher Joyce | NPR
A nuclear plant today can produce 10,000 times as much electricity. But for the past 20 years, new nuclear plants have been too expensive to build. Now engineers are trying to revive the industry by thinking small again. Full Article
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