Safeguards in the Spotlight

In general it can be said with authority (and fully backed up by my historical files) that quite a  number of states–and, importantly, mostly states with significant nuclear programs–have at critical times resisted efforts of the IAEA to require that they provide more information and access. 

 

Iran Installed the main and upper container of Arak heavy water reactor in the Central province of Markazi in the presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday.

 

Southern California Edison announced Friday it is permanently shutting down the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant, ending the region's four-decade venture into nuclear energy production.

 

The United States has successfully tested missiles designed to destroy Iran's underground nuclear laboratories. The massive ordnance penetrator, as the weapon is called, has cost $500 million to develop, and can be dropped from B-2 stealth bombers.

 

In the face of growing federal budget pressures, the U.S. Navy in May began to more openly question Obama administration plans to purchase a dozen new nuclear-armed submarines.

 

The Alvin W. Vogtle nuclear power plant near Augusta is using a new plant design, a new construction method and a new system of nuclear regulation for what the industry says is a faster, better and cheaper system that will lead the way for a new generation of reactors.