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In this Monday, July 19, 2010 file photo, a part of the South Pars gas field facility is seen on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, in Assalouyeh, Iran. Major Asian importers of Iranian oil are thumbing their noses at American attempts to get them to rein in their purchases, dealing a blow to Washington's efforts to force the Middle Eastern country to curtail its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran using new advanced uranium centrifuges

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 11:32am

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran claimed Wednesday that it has achieved two major advances in its program to master production of nuclear fuel, a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear program.

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This undated photo released by Iranian Fars News Agency, claims to show Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who they say was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, next to his son. Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and his driver Wednesday, reports said. The slayings suggest a widening covert effort to set back Iran's atomic program. The blast killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, state TV reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency)

Another Iranian nuclear scientist killed; Israel blamed

Sheera Frenkel McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 3:49pm

JERUSALEM -- An Iranian scientist working at a key nuclear facility in that country was killed Wednesday in Tehran, the latest act in what appears to be a widening covert effort to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.

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Big part of nuclear reactor heads to Utah landfill

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 8:27am

SALT LAKE CITY — A huge piece of a dismantled nuclear reactor is headed toward a Tooele County landfill where it will be buried.

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(The Associated Press) This undated aerial view shows the Los Alamos National laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. While much of the public outcry over Los Alamos in recent years has focused on lagging cleanup efforts of radioactive waste and hazardous runoff into the canyons, earthquake danger and the potential for catastrophic releases of radiation from existing facilities was front and center at a recent meeting in Santa Fe of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.

Questions swirl around $6 billion nuclear lab

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 5:14pm

SANTA FE, N.M. — At Los Alamos National Laboratory, scientists and engineers refer to their planned new $6 billion nuclear lab by its clunky acronym, CMRR, short for Chemistry Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility. But as a work in progress for three decades and with hundreds of millions of dollars already spent, nomenclature is among the minor issues.

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The Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is the Air Force mortuary that receives America’s war dead and prepares them for burial. Officials said Tuesday that the mortuary lost human remains twice in 2009. (Associated Press file photo)

Air Force hit by pattern of embarrassing errors

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 12:22am

WASHINGTON — Revelations about mishandling the nation’s war dead mark the Air Force’s second embarrassing failure in three years, following the time when airmen mistakenly flew a B-52 armed with nuclear weapons across the country.

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(The Associated Press) This undated handout photo provided by the National Nuclear Security Administration shows the United States’ last B53 nuclear bomb. The 10,000-pound bomb is scheduled to be dismantled Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 at the Pantex Plant just outside Amarillo, Texas. It’s a milestone in President Barack Obama’s efforts to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and their role in the U.S.

US’s most powerful nuclear bomb being dismantled

Betsy Blaney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 11:37am

AMARILLO, Texas — The last of the nation’s most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War.

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(The Associated Press) This undated image provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory shows lab contract worker, Kevin Miller examining a truck excavated from a location called Area B on lab property in Los Alamos, N.M. Over the past three years, lab workers laboring under highly specialized containment domes built literally just a mile or so from downtown Los Alamos -- have pulled up everything from a truck believed to have been used at the first nuclear test bomb explosion to whiskey bottles, calendars and about twice as much toxic waste and soil as had been thought to be buried at what is known as Area B.

Los Alamos under renewed environmental scrutiny

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 4:55pm

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Pickup trucks believed present at the world’s first nuclear bomb test, coke and whiskey bottles, a calendar and a toothbrush are just a few of the items unearthed by a cleanup of one of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s original toxic dump sites, where the detritus of the 1940s Manhattan Project was strewn through some of northern New Mexico’s most scenic mesas and canyons.

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(The Associated Press) North Korean leader Kim Jong Il,, is welcomed with bread and salt in front of his armored train upon his arrival at the Bureya railway station, eastern Siberia, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011. Kim crossed into Russia on his armored train Saturday at the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev, with the two leaders expected to meet later in the week to discuss the restart of nuclear disarmament talks and the construction of a pipeline that would stream Russian natural gas to North and South Korea.

2 Koreas to discuss resumption of 6-party talks

Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:09pm

SEOUL, South Korea — The top nuclear envoys of the rival Koreas will discuss terms for restarting long-dormant six-nation nuclear talks during a rare meeting in Beijing this week, a South Korean official said Sunday.

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(Associated Press file photo) Former Illinois Sen. Charles H. Percy (right) introduces Mark Hambley to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington in October 1993. Percy died Saturday in Washington at age 91.

Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies at 91

Rick Pearson Chicago Tribune

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:11pm

CHICAGO — Charles H. Percy, a brilliant businessman who represented Illinois for nearly 20 years in the U.S. Senate, once headed the chamber’s powerful Foreign Relations Committee, and harbored unrealized ambitions to run for the presidency, died early Saturday. He was 91.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, says goodbye to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, after a meeting an a military garrison, outside Ulan-Ude in Byryatia, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived Wednesday in remote eastern Siberia for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expected to focus on energy deals, economic aid and nuclear disarmament.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)

NKorea reported ready to halt WMD tests

Mansur Mirovalev The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 10:12am

MOSCOW — North Korea is ready to impose a moratorium on nuclear missile tests if international talks on its nuclear program resume, a spokesman for Russia's president said Wednesday after talks between the two leaders at a Siberian military base.

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In this photo taken Friday, April 15, 2011, Japanese police officers in protective suits carry a victim at a tsunami-devastated area in the town of Namie, as towers of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are seen in the distance at top right in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The Japanese government failed to adequately utilize radiation threat forecasts in the early days of its nuclear crisis and allowed thousands of residents, including hundreds of schoolchildren, to remain in areas it had ample reason to believe put them in serious danger. Eight thousand residents of Namie were not informed that they should move further away until March 16, almost a week after the disaster, despite predictions on the first day that a radioactive plume would drift across the town. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Japan ignored own radiation forecasts

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 10:30am

NAMIE, Japan -- Japan's system to forecast radiation threats was working from the moment its nuclear crisis began. As officials planned a venting operation certain to release radioactivity into the air, the system predicted Karino Elementary School would be directly in the path of the plume emerging from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.

But the prediction helped no one. Nobody acted on it.

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Groups file letter against water for Utah nuke plant

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 1:52pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Environmental groups from four states are filing a letter criticizing a request from the owners of a proposed nuclear power plant in Utah to use water from the Green River.

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NM wildfire grows, shuts famed Los Alamos nuke lab

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, June 27, 2011 - 4:12pm

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Authorities ordered Los Alamos evacuated Monday as a fast-growing and unpredictable wildfire bore down on the northern New Mexico town and its sprawling nuclear laboratory.

The blaze that began Sunday already had destroyed an unspecified number of houses south of the town, which is home to some 12,000 residents. It also forced the closure of the nation’s pre-eminent nuclear lab while stirring memories of a devastating blaze more than a decade ago that destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in the area.

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) President Masataka Shimizu, left, attends a news conference with TEPCO Executive Toshio Nishizawa, center, on its fiscal 2010 earning at the company's head office in Tokyo Friday, May 20, 2011. Nishizawa will replace Shimizu who said Friday he was stepping down in disgrace after reporting the biggest losses in company history. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Japan utility head resigns over nuclear crisis

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 20, 2011 - 9:54am

TOKYO — The president of the Japanese utility behind the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl said Friday he was stepping down in disgrace after reporting the biggest financial losses in company history.

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Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno, right, leaves a press conference where he announced it has agreed to the government's request to close its Hamaoka nuclear power plant, at the head office in Nagoya, central Japan, on Monday May 9, 2011. Earlier the utility serving central Japan convened a special board meeting Monday to decide whether to accept Prime Minister Naoto Kan's directive to close the plant's three reactors while the company builds new safety features. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Japanese plant in harm's way will suspend nuclear power production

Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, May 9, 2011 - 10:36am

TOKYO -- A Japanese utility agreed Monday to take its reactors offline at a seaside nuclear power plant, just days after Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for the shutdown over concerns that a strong earthquake and tsunami could provoke another nuclear crisis.

Board members of the Chubu Electric Power Co., Japan's third-largest electric supplier, had met behind closed doors over the weekend before announcing late Monday that the utility would temporarily shut down the three reactors at its Hamaoka facility in Nagoya.

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