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- Newspaper: Kim Jong-Il regrets nuclear test and will return to negotiating table
- Leaked information from Iran’s nuclear response to the West reveals Tehran’s demands
- White House Requests Funding to Expand Nunn-Lugar Beyond Soviet Borders
- Report Urges International Action to Eliminate Risks From Russian WMDs
- Bush Signs Three-Year Nunn-Lugar Waiver
- Report Says US-Russia Threat Reduction Efforts Lack Coordination, Political Will and Cash
- Tenex Might be Stuck With Tonnes of Uranium it Produces for US Consumption
- Presidential CTR Re-Certification Likely to be Required Every Three Years
- Long-Awaited US Waiver Releases Millions in CTR Funds
- US DOE Chief Harshly Criticises Russia-Iran Nuclear Cooperation
- US DOE Chief Arrives in Moscow Under Shadow of Expanded Nuke Plans in Iran
- Russia Outlines Plans for Five More Iranian Reactors, Stoking Weapons Programme Fears
- G-8 Pledges $20bn to Secure Russian Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Uranium Theft May Be Part of Decade Old Heist
- Bush US-FSU non-proliferation budget is in, but will it be enough?
- British Deny Radwaste Deal with Russia
- Supreme Court to Hear Appeals on Hungarian Spent Fuel Shipment
- MinAtom Hints at British Deal
- Nunn-Lugar in Jeopardy
- Green World activist attacked
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- US House of Representatives passes climate bill in squeaker vote late Friday
- Medvedev suggests amendments to Russia’s NGO law – human rights activists suggest more
- Worker’s washing up saves UK’s Sizewell A from having to air its dirty nuclear laundry
- Russia secures America’s Exelon as its fourth customer in growing number of commercial uranium deals
- Obama fully backs nuke fuel bank, Russia still a contender
- Sellafeild’s Thorp reprocessing unit to shut down for seven months for planned maintenance
- New UN report predicts boom for solar energy on eve of CC9 conference kick-off
- Moscow rehabilitation hospital trying to force out gravely injured opposition newspaper editor
- US Energy Secretary says climate bill best bet for US climate leadership – but changes to legislation may come
- Rosatom says uranium tail contracts will not be renewed, citing economic infeasibility
- Another Russian ‘priority’ gas project rides roughshod over human and environmental rights and tramples the law
- US and Russia ink first ever completely commercial uranium sales deal estimated at $1 billion
- US House of Representatives Committee passes ‘most significant climate policy ever introduced' in America
- Reprocessing equipment closure at Sellafield to impact Thorp – environmentalists call for shut-down
- UPDATE: Obama anounces tougher auto emissions and mileage standards
- Russia begins building its first floating nuke plant amid pep talk for Medvedev from Kiriyenko
- Foreign radioactive waste may soon be headed for the United States
- Problems of where to store extra plutonium from deeper Cold war weapons cuts dog Obama
- Putin goes to Japan to promote nuclear cooperation and sell more reactor fuel under an environmental cloud
- Norway’s environmental minister accepts Bellona’s plan to make the country carbon negative by 2050
- British subs reported to have been leaking radioactive materials for at least three years
- Rosatom director paints rosy picture of his agency’s successes in the face of fiancial crisis and questionable success
- UPDATE: US EPA finds greenhouse gasses to be a pollutant in major improvement for American climate policy
- Three arrested for trying to sell nuclear materials in Ukrainian sting operation
- Kazakhstan and White House confirm former Soviet republic lead contender for international fuel bank
- Obama, Russia seek cuts to rid world of nukes – nuke fuel bank part of the process
- World’s second largest sovereign wealth fund follows Bellona advice
- Another rights activist attacked in Moscow in worsening climate for opposition figures
- Three decades after Three Mile Island accident, US nuclear lobby poised for a PR campaign and nuclear build
- Amid deadlocked voting to chose ElBaradei successor, Bellona expert questions need for IAEA
- Russian environmental groups protest arrival of more nuclear waste
- US carbon market supporters are divided on whether Obama should sell permits
- Urenco sends largest nuke waste shipment yet to St. Petersburg in race to complete import contract
- US Energy secretary’s remarks on nuclear power aimed to end perception that Obama is anti-nuke
- International nuclear fuel bank reaches needed amount in contributions to move forward, Russia anxious to host it
- Congress commissioned report urges White House to lead a reformulation of CTR programmes
- US Energy Secretary shuts down Yucca Mountain project decisively at Senate Committee hearing
- UPDATE: Rosatom attracting investment for four more floating nuclear power plants – while first still languishes in dry dock
- Rosatom and Siemens reach understanding on founding a joint nuclear conglomerate
- Obama budget freezes Yucca, but current environmental options look bleak
- Obama’s budget includes revenues from a cap-and-trade programme
- Medvedev deplores innocent verdict in Politkovskaya murder case, but human rights community still cool on president’s efforts
- Obama says renewable and clean energy development key to overcoming economic crisis
- Obama’s new budget confirmed to contain revenues from an emissions cap-and-trade scheme
- Romanian research reactor fuel sent back to Russia under Russian-US nonproliferation programme
- US EPA expected to act on carbon dioxide emissions regulation, in major departure from Bush era: reports
- Obama signs economic stimulus legislation, providing lush support for a green new deal
- British and French nuclear subs collide at sea causing bad damage, but no radiation leaks or casualties
- Consequences for Arctic in climate change to be dire, Swedish conference says
- UPDATE: Medvedev dusts off presidential rights council, appeasing critics and puzzling analysts
- “Green New Deal” gets US Senate’s approval, setting Obama’s stimulus package on the road to passage
- UPDATE: Ominous new prognoses close Delhi climate summit
- Another Russian journalist attacked in apparent silencing attempt
- Obama seeks biggest bilateral nuke cut with Russia in decades – Russian officials show signs of agreement
- Medvedyev meeting with editor of slain reporter, and human rights lawyer both welcomed and scorned
- Climate change could ‘end human civilisation’ Gore tells US Senate
- Britain considering new nuclear power plants at Sellafield
- Obama gives US states an open road to tighten emissions standards, and orders more fuel efficient cars
- Court rules in favor of St. Petersburg's Memorial group after December 4th raid
- Prominent Russian human rights lawyer, and reporter for crusading paper both die by assassin’s bullet
- US Inauguration day special: Obama’s green power mandate
- Even as gas crisis shows signs of easing, former Soviet-Bloc states are anxious to take nuclear out of mothballs
- Obama’ energy and environmental team departs from Bush policies, but prompts more conservative expectations
- US report urges Obama to spend more on nuke threat reduction and the environment, less on atomic saber rattling
- Poznan climate talk preview shows world’s hopes lie with Obama to break deadlocks and forge ahead in recession
- Moscow area investigative reporter brutally beaten for environmental and corruption exposés
- With climate goals clearly spelled out, Obama has yet to address the role of nuclear power
- Obama renews campaign climate goals in speech to California climate conference to international approval
- Investigators finger questionable culprit in Russian Pacific Fleet nuclear sub disaster
- Inspections of a reactor at Sweden’s Forsmark nuclear plant reveal that a quarter of its control rods are cracked
- Russian media offer eyewitness accounts of what went wrong in weekend submarine disaster
- Thousands of international protesters gather in Germany to block nuclear waste delivery from France
- At least 20 reported dead in Pacific Fleet nuclear submarine accident during sea trials
- Obama presidential victory an historic occasion for the environment and human rights leadership
- Election 2008 Special: Environmental figure heavy in East Coast voters minds as they cast ballots for Obama on election day
- Serious control rod problem halts operations at two Swedish nuclear reactors
- UK again seeks to extradite suspected assassin after attempted poisoning of Russia’s most prominent human rights lawyer
- Extended life for Lithuanian nuke plant falters on low voter turnout
- Prominent Russian human rights lawyer alleges that persons unknown tried to poison her
- United State Global Threat Reduction Programme takes giant steps, NNSA says
- IAEA makes vague allegations that Russian may be aiding completion of an Iranian nuclear weapon: Paper
- Norwegian activists cleared of wrong-doing by Russian court in landmark decision
- Russia accuses US of upsetting nuke arms balance by letting critical arms control treaty lapse
- US presidential hopeful Obama pledges 80 percent emission cut by 2050, and slams nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing
- Democrats in US Congress vote to lift moratorium on offshore drilling in election year political shift
- Pasko case to raise complex issues of law and fact in European Human Rights Court
- UPDATE: US-Russian nuclear pact shelved by president over Georgia– though US leaves door open to future collaboration
- Norway shooting for aluminum factory on Kola Peninsula – will local nuke plant power it?
- Officials declare Kola Peninsula free of dangerous, aged nuclear generators
- Georgia conflict set to derail US-Russian civilian nuclear pact, providing environmental silver lining in tragic bloodshed
- Thorp reprocessing plant’s operational period may be extended by a decade, UK officials say
- US efforts In Georgia to contain nuclear theft being routed by Russian army
- Russian fighting in Georgia putting area’s nuclear materials stocks in jeopardy for theft
- US Navy investigation determines radiation leaks on US nuclear attack sub insignificant - but solicits input from environmental groups
- Booed in Bali, US chief climate negotiator to meet Bellona staff to prep for December’s UN climate conference
- Norwegian and Finnish activists detained during swoop on Russian environmental camp against Shtokman pipelines
- US sub leaks radiation in Japanese port, Japan’s foreign minister kept in dark
- Bellona and local residents demand swift removal Russia battle cruiser shipwreck in northern Norway
- Italy to build nuclear waste ship for Russian Northern Fleet subs
- New poll shows renewable energy popular in Russia, despite Putin’s nuclear ambitions
- Secret plutonium shipments from Sellafield to France banned by UK government
- Moscow snubs UK Ambassador at British funded Murmansk-based nuclear site, putting further funding in jeopardy
- Worker from Ukraine’s German embassy busted at home for smuggling nuclear materials
- Spent fuel elements removed from world’s first nuclear power plant at Obninsk, Russia in giant step toward decommissioning
- Prime Minister Putin slaps tax on foreign NGOs in effort to purge Russia of foreign influence
- In new AMEC twist, Russia offering to scrap aged British nuke subs
- Plant head confirms second Kola Nuclear Power Plant build to supply energy to Shtokman oil and gas field development
- Reshuffle at Russian Natural Resources Ministry set to skewer government’s only environmentalist
- Environmentalists’ tour of prospective site for international uranium bank bankrupt of information
- Bellona activists prevented from taking rad measurements of German waste, but surprisingly allowed to keep photos
- Uranium tail imports to Russia violate international principles and agreements
- Croatia complains it was kept in the dark after Slovenian reactor incident, while others were told leak was an ‘exercise’
- Russian government makes bold eco-legislation promises – but avoids discussing concrete measures
- Nunn and Lugar back US-Russian civilian nuclear pact- Bellona urges the environmental component be addressed
- French ship arrives in St. Petersburg carrying more European uranium tails for waste storage in Russia
- MEP Harms slams nuclear expansion in Europe and disregard for the 'insider threat' at Swedish nuke plant
- Norway opens season for oil hunters in fish-rich Lofoten area of Northern Norway
- Two in custody in apparent conspiracy to blow up Swedish nuclear power plant
- Bush submits US-Russian civilian nuclear pact to Congress – Congress unimpressed
- Atomstroiexport prez appointed Energy Minister by PM Putin, showing Russia means nuclear business
- Putin’s swan song before leaving office: turning Russia into a nuclear outhouse
- Russian-US civilian nuke pact faces opposition in Congress – but environmental hazards elude argument
- Moscow and Washington sign long anticipated civilian nuclear pact - at envionmental peril for Russia
- Rosatom takeover looms for Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet
- European Court of Human Rights finds in favour of villagers suing the Siberian Chemical Combine
- Bush pushing civilian nuke cooperation with Russia in hopes of kicking off international nuclear fuel bank
- Former Soviet capitols vent anger on Chernobyl anniversary and demand halt to nuclear expansion
- Russia gathers for nationwide protest against ‘new Chernobyls’
- Forum on nuclear industry cooperation exposed as bogus by environmental protesters
- Activists turn out to see off ‘mobile Chernobyl’ train load of German radwaste as it heads for the Urals
- Russia set to shut down plutonium production reactor Sunday, US officials say
- Activists from Bellona and Ecodefence arrested – again – for protesting German radwaste shipments
- Former Russian Atomic Minister Adamov freed from jail on a suspended sentence
- St. Petersburg receives its monthly radioactive waste shipment from Germany
- Bush unveils disappointing, nonspecific plans for stabilising greenhouse emissions by 2025
- Arctic oil drilling threatens international radioactive contamination from old Soviet nuclear dump-sites
- April 15th predicted to bring death and taxes to Russian NGOs
- Mysterious radioactive contamination turns up in milk produced near Sellafield
- UK Parliament report says NDA nuclear clean-up body in a financial crunch, blames government
- Bellona's forum on renewable energy in Murmansk leaves participants charged up
- Gazprom pushes for more nuke power to develop Shtokman oil and gas reserve
- Britain’s Drigg waste site gets 20-year life span extension from NDA as leak hits neighboring Sellafield
- Court decisions stymie Russian-American non-proliferation agreement, and pave way for a Moscow uranium boom
- Sellafield’s Magnox reprocessing to overshoot promised closure date by four years, says NDA
- Bellona says British nuclear reprocessing plant lacks safety approval to restart after 2005 incident
- Britain mining Sweden for radwaste burial techniques
- Russian government announces ambitious new plans for nuclear plant construction spike
- Offloading of radioactive waste shipment underway in St. Petersburg – with some suspicious American arrivals
- Bush administration budget for Nunn-Lugar falls by $12 million
- British study finds possible link between radiation and heart disease, stroke
- Norway announces $5 million contribution to realisation of a multi-national nuclear fuel bank
- UK latches on US–Russia driven nuclear power promotion initiative, joining a host of polluters, peddlers and proliferators
- Norway and UK to share £3.9 million burden of dismantling Russian November class sub
- Reactor constructors to pay for waste from UK nuclear renaissance, government says - but no mention of where to put it
- Former Russian atomic minister Adamov sentenced to 5 ½ years in penal colony for fraud and abuse of office
- Russian court finds former Atomic Minister Adamov guilty of fraud and abuse of power-sentencing to come Wednesday
- Russia to boost staff at Iran’s Bushehr reactor, but Moscow’s head diplomat urges less fanfare
- US –Russian aid programme said to help finance Iran’s nuclear ambitions
- Seversk plutonium reactors to shut down ahead of schedule but security problems persist
- Russian nuke industry predicts boom in US uranium sales
- Nuclear clean-up bill for UK getting higher and higher
- US Congress questions post-Soviet non-proliferation effort
- Russia to finish halted nuclear plant project in Bulgaria
- Russian Pu reactors now slated for shut-down by 2010, DOE says
- GAO report slams US aid programme employing Russian weapons scientists
- London’s plan for new nukes falls under scrutiny of government watchdog
- British parliament now the single unlikely curb to a UK and EU nuclear renaissance
- Bellona stands against forecasted nuclear expansion in UK
- Washington congratulates itself on speeding up dangerous Russian-American non-proliferation project
- Future nuclear plans with Russia fall low on the agenda of most US prez candidates
- MIT research reactor incident exposes worker, NRC says
- Russian fuel delivery to Iran and promises to Libya puts Moscow on map as big Middle East nuke peddler
- Norway suffers second largest oil spill in the country’s history
- British Energy begins extending engineered life-spans for troubled reactors – Bellona in opposition
- Global Threat Reduction Initiative repatriates Russian HEU from Czech Republic
- US OKs some uranium imports from Russia – but figures set to jump within decade
- Russia’s upper house of parliament passes the creation of atomic state corporate superstructure
- US, Russia agree on plutonium disposal — to chagrin of environmentalists and nuclear scientists
- Russia preparing fuel for shipment to Iran despite western concerns
- UPDATE: Russian environmental laws offer inadequate protection from oil disasters from the Arctic to the Black Sea
- UPDATE: Black Sea storm splits oil tanker, spilling thousands of gallons and sinking other ships
- Short of cash, British Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to focus on Sellafield
- US prez candidate Hillary Clinton lets loose with the K-word
- Senate reviews an all-nuclear US Navy to flee rising crude prices
- Sellafield’s Thorp set to reopen in 2008 after 3 years of repairs and clean-up
- UPDATE: Bellona opposes Norway’s participation in Russia’s Shtokman field development
- Russia’s Ivanov says Angarsk enrichment centre open to all who can help build it
- US placates Moscow on missile defence sites in Eastern Europe, but ignores obvious solutions to ‘new Cold War’
- Europe to finance CCS demonstration in China, but where is Norway?
- Putin okays Iranian nuke plans, calling Tehran’s programme ‘peaceful’
- Scotland rejects UK nuclear expansion plans in favor of renewables
- EU raises question on Russian NGO law with Moscow authorities
- Kremlin submits bill to turn Rosatom into all-encompassing state nuclear corporation
- US prez candidate Obama calls on Russia and the world to abandon nukes
- Russia hails US court ruling opening possibilities of uranium sales to America
- Chelyabinsk Region residents still being irradiated 50 years on
- Norwegian foreign minister pegs Moscow on false allegations against Bellona
- UN warns world: Take climate change seriously or be judged by posterity
- Ukraine increasing nuke energy use while getting help at Chernobyl
- Bellona St. Petersburg under the gun of Russia’s new NGO laws
- UN to consider Russia-based uranium fuel bank – despite environmental worries and vague proliferation protection
- US-Russian Global Threat Reduction Initiative removes uranium from Vietnam for second shipment in two weeks
- Russia signs on for 4,000 tons of Australian uranium –but deal shows cracks in Moscow’s atomic planning
- Americans give Russia records on legendary sunken Soviet nuclear missile sub
- US-Russian agreement repatriates highly enriched uranium from Poland
- Bush Administration actively pursuing strategies to attack Iran, according to Washington officials
- Confidential UN report says Iran’s nuke programme moving slowly
- CTR at 15 – Nunn and Lugar travel to Russia to boost programme
- French president warns Iran it could be bombed if it does not curb nuclear ambitions
- Arab nations vie for nuclear power, leading to jitters over Middle Eastern A-bombs
- Russian sky and sea patrols widening in a dangerous revival of nuclear diplomacy
- Russia resumes Cold War nuke bomber patrols – accident potential high, say analysts
- Candidate Clinton flip-flops, saying nuclear war is a viable option
- Gold rush to North Pole oil reserves puts tough global warming questions to nations
- Russia refuses Iran nuclear fuel until Tehran comes clean about nuclear activities, diplomats say
- Russia to drill Arctic oil with nuclear icebreaker
- Russian Arctic expedition to explore underwater oil deposits in disputed territories nears North Pole
- US presidential candidates weigh in against Iranian nukes
- Russian construction of Iran’s Bushehr reactor in ‘crisis’
- Candidate Clinton speaks out against Yucca Mountain
- US to convert more weapons plutonium than originally planned
- Bellona calls for Japan to halt nuke activity after Tokyo Electric again revises nuke damage estimates for worse
- Japanese officials investigate possible second leak at quake-rocked nuke plant – and finally report accurate figures on first
- Earthquake causes fire and radioactive leak at Japanese nuke power plant
- Bogus company gets license to buy nuclear materials from US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, GAO report reveals
- Sochi Olympics success could trample Russia’s precious Black Sea nature preserves
- Putin and Bush quietly reach agreement on civilian nuke cooperation and missile reduction
- Adamov lawyer says his client clear of US charges – US judge and attorneys beg to differ
- Diplomats: Bush likely to reject anti-nuke missile cooperation with Putin
- US Congress pledges $50m to international uranium fuel bank - but what will this cost Russia's environment?
- Congress puts breaks on Bush nuke warhead plan, encouraging dismantlement
- US warmly endorses international uranium enrichment site in Russia – discounts environmental dangers
- ElBaradei: Attack on Iran would be ‘an act of madness’
- US and Israel table military action on Iran – Iran does not flinch
- G-8 leaders agree to ‘call’ for greenhouse gas reductions
- Summit preview: Nuclear issues could overshadow talks on climate change at G-8
- Bush’s warm to climate change heats European debate before G-8 summit
- Uranium windfall for US government poses tough questions for DOE
- UN climate panel says emissions quotas insufficient—focus should lie on industry
- Comment: Russia embarks on constructing floating Chernobyls in waiting
- Norwegian AMEC advisor’s expulsion from Russia gets murky as local media hint at espionage
- Two British sailors killed and one injured in explosion aboard nuke sub
- Open hearings on Lepse dismantlement at Nerpa get environmental thumbs-up
- UK government probe cites staff negligence in 2005 Thorp radioactive leak
- Putin moves Duma a step closer to ratifying CTR Umbrella Agreement
- Russia delays completion of Iranian reactor, encouraging Washington
- Reasons for Norway AMEC co-chair’s expulsion from Russia still unclear
- North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear weapons programme in exchange for oil
- Putin: Militaristic US policies creating a new nuclear arms race
- Norwegian AMEC co-chair expelled from Russia
- Russia slashes sanctions against Iran in draft UN resolution
- Spit and string – office supplies required for the future of foreign NGOs in Russia
- A bullet for your thoughts: The murder of Anna Politkovkaya reconsidered
- UK reports that climate change will be as economically devastating as World War II
- Bellona asks Norwegian Parliament to commit to new plan for carbon capture
- Russian NGO registration director calls suspended organisations ‘liars’
- EU energy needs don’t deter European leaders from pressing Putin on human rights
- Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others temporarily halted by new Russian NGO law
- Russia-based foreign NGOs in paper chase to beat Oct. 18 registration deadline, or face closure
- Gazprom announces it will go alone in developing the Shtokman oil and gas field
- Politkovskaya’s burial a somber moment observed from Moscow to Europe
- North Korean nuclear test met with worldwide condemnation - and a grain of scepticism
- Journalist and human rights advocate Anna Politkovskaya murdered in Moscow
- Russian democracy smothered by NGO law, corruption and a muzzled media
- Reflections of a Chernobyl liquidator – the way it was and the way it will be
- Norway and United States drop out of AMEC to assume observers’ roles
- Iran-EU talks again hit a wall – but ignoring past opportunities assured current impasse
- Adamov proclaims his innocence and accuses ex-partner of ‘sins’
- Adamov’s alleged co-conspirator admits to defrauding US government and tax evasion
- New European negotiations over Iran to be scrutinized by a sanction-hungry US
- THORP plant not to reopen until 2007, UK nuclear authorities say
- US and Russia sign protocol to continue plutonium disposition plan
- IAEA says US Congressional report on Iranian nukes ‘outrageous and dishonest’
- Son of FSB director Patrushev to be advisor to chairman of oil giant Rosneft
- Russia ‘twists the nuclear thorn’ in talks over Iran’s uranium enrichment programme
- Fire breaks out aboard Northern Fleet nuclear sub, killing 2
- Dutch firm Dockwise delivers last of its subs from Gremikha
- Iran ready to talk – but mixed signals remain on its uranium enrichment programme
- Kick-off for the Lepse Expert Panel
- American Investigators Slide Dirty-Bomb Material Through Us Border Checkponts
- Diplomats Remain Split Over Iran Nuclear Question
- Norway Releases Funding For AMEC Sub Transportation In A Victory For Bellona
- Iran Reports Huge Advances In Uranium Enrichment
- Bush White House requests a $43m decrease in CTR funding
- Bush White House Requests A $43M Decrease In Ctr Funding
- Bellona Shows The Way Forward For CCS In Europe, Industry Heeding The Call
- Bush and Russia wish to join forces in making nuclear fuel
- Bush budget earmarks $250M for nuclear fuel-reprocessing in US
- Putin: UK spy flap justifies NGO crack-down
- FSB casts first stone in war on NGOs
- UK sticks to its guns in AMEC quarrel
- Norwegian participation in AMEC could be dissolved
- UPDATED: Russian State Duma passes NGO bill in second reading with flying colours
- Duma set to vote on bill to curb civil society activity Wednesday
- Explosion at Sosnovy Bors Ekomet-S plant
- Russian Duma votes to tighten screws on civil society organisations
- Rumyantsev sacked as Rosatom head and replaced by Presidential envoy Sergei Kiriyenko
- Iran rejects Moscows uranium enrichment compromise
- Russia, Norway could begin Arctic oil development before legally possible
- Arrested Russian fishing trawler flees for home with two detained Norwegian Coast Guard inspectors
- BNFL board puts British Nuclear Group up for sale
- Putin fires navy chief Kuroyedov and brings in tough-talking successor
- Former nuke minister Adamov wants trial in Russia, but US has other plans
- Lugar delegation detained for three hours in Perm after inspecting nuke weapons facility
- Turkish officials bust peddlers of Russia-origin uranium in Istanbul
- Loose strontium discovered in Murmansk Region village
- Thorp officials open with Bellona as they work to restore UK nuke reprocessing facility
- US files formal extradition request for custody of former Russian atomic energy minister
- US Survey: Next decade holds a 70 percent chance of a nuclear terrorist act
- Swiss court rules Adamov should be released from detention
- Nuclear experts from around the world meet in Japan to discuss Global Partnership progress
- UPDATE: Bellona releases The Russian Nuclear Industry—The Need for Reform in Washington
- Thorp Leak at Sellafield continued unchecked for 9 months say British nuclear officials and media
- Moscow will fight former nuclear chiefs extradition to the United States
- Thorp leak officially ranked a serious incident as UK mulls shutting plant down for good
- Sellafields Thorp reprocessing plant incident perturbs an impatient Europe
- Radioactive leak closes Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield
- Former Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Adamov arrested in Switzerland at US request
- Bellona conference on Lepse pits skepticism against optimism in Europe
- Russia invites other nations to dismantle subs on its territory
- US and Russia look for international aid to shut down Russias production reactors
- UK nuclear decommissioning efforts now answerable to Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Status Report: RTGs still an underestimated foe in securing loose nukes in Russia
- Canada and US join forces to shut down Russia Pu production reactors
- Sellafield status update: Pile 1 decommissioning plans moving slowly but steadily forward
- Iran, Russia ink deal for Bushehr fuel that includes SNF return, but West still jittery
- Putin, Bush summit fails to reach any binding nuclear conclusions
- Putin and Bush head to Bratislava for non-proliferation and democracy summit
- Russian, European officials optimistic about Russian nuclear Master Plan
- Norway to scrap another Russian sub, but two previous efforts ignored spent nuclear fuel safety
- Details of US sub accident become clearer as deceased sailor's name released
- US attack sub runs aground in the Pacific, killing one
- Lithuanias Ignalina NPP begins the road to shut down
- In policy shift, UK says it will store nuclear waste from foreign reprocessing customers
- Rumyantsev letter reveals specific amounts of nuke usable material, but raises many questions
- Bellona report focuses EU parliament on need for coordinated nuclear clean-up in Russia
- New Bellona report on Russias nuclear industry to be presented in EU Parliament Wednesday
- Explosion aboard Russian nuclear submarine kills one and elicits sceptical responses
- An ordinary emergency reactor shut down causes widespread panic
- Rosatoms Antipov stumps for international help, not supervision
- Russian Duma ratifies long contested Kyoto Protocol
- CEG meeting focuses on tightening safety practices for Russias nuclear remediation
- Putins cabinet gives Kyoto the green light
- Moscow, IAEA support multi-national nuke waste repository for Russia
- US Senator Ted Kennedy slams Bush on non-proliferation and endorses Kerry on nuclear containment
- Current non-proliferation efforts insufficient to stop nuclear weapons from falling to terrorists
- Dispute over declassifying Soviet nuke sub accidents to be decided by district court
- Washington and Moscow agree to repatriate Russian-origin HEU from 17 countries
- Putin signals Russia will sign Kyoto Protocol for WTO membership
- Thieves make off with 14 tonnes of titanium from Sayda Bay submarines
- Igor Sutyagin hit with 15-year hard labour sentence - FSB says verdict is a warning
- FSB vents its rage on Igor Sutyagin with a guilty verdict
- Details of Minatoms dismantlement becoming clearer
- Kuroyedov declares 'Peter the Great' could explode 'at any moment'
- MOX plan delayed by Bush administration budget documents
- Upcoming EU enlargement revives long-standing nuclear battle
- Bellon's Kharitonov to Speak in Finnish Parliament
- Minatom adopts sub dismantlement master plan at NDEP meeting
- Audit of Minatom reveals millions in misspent cash and lack of control on sub decommissioning
- Confusion reigns in Russian government over signing of Kyoto Protocol
- Norway pushes CEG to help restructure future nuclear aid programs to Russia
- IPWG group backs need for nuclear remediation 'master plan'
- Minatom releases sub decommissioning figures and admits to problems reprocessing naval fuel
- Italy furious after US Navy tried to cover up sub accident
- US State Department leaving MOX programme to twist in the wind
- Germany signs off on €300m to clean up Sayda Bay
- MNEPR Headed for Duma Ratification
- Irradiated Nuclear Cleanup Workers Denied Medical Care for More Than a Month
- Is Nuclear Power Reaching Its Sunset Years?
- Northern Fleet Chief Suspended Over K-159 Sinking
- Bellona Investigation Reveals Radiation Levels Are Normal After K-159 Sinking—So Far
- Tabloids Cause Minor Nuclear Smuggling Panic in Scandinavia
- Atomflot Deputy Director Arrested on Suspicion of Smuggling of Nuclear Materials
- Russia Orders Halt to Submarine Towing in Wake of K-159 Disaster
- Russian Naval Negligence Sinks Retired Nuke Sub in Barents Sea, Killing Nine
- Members of US-Norwegian Delegation Barred from Dismantlement Shipyard
- Rogue MOX Negotiations Possible After Expiration of 1998 Technical Agreement
- Technical Agreement for Plutonium Disposition Allowed to Lapse by US
- Malyshev Makes his First Public Statement Amid Mixed Reviews From his Colleagues
- World Funding Pours Into Russia for Nuclear Cleanup and Sub Dismantling
- GAN Chief Retired Under Suspicious Circumstances
- ElBaradei optimistic on Iran
- EU, Russia and US Urge Iran to Sign Inspection Protocol
- Leaked IAEA Report Suspects Iran of Nuclear Breaches
- MOX Eludes Mention at Evian G-8 Summit
- Putin Grows Wary of Iranian Nuke Program
- Iranian Resistance Group Says it has Revealed Two More Uranium Enrichment Sites in Iran
- Mayaks Plutonium Storage Facility Expected to Be Completed by Years End
- MNEPR Accord Signed in Stockholm Wednesday
- Russia Agrees with US That Iran Poses a Nuclear Threat
- Japan to Begin Non- Strategic Sub Dismantling Pilot Project by Summer
- Tehran Offers Conditional Assurances on Nuclear Weapons Programme
- Thorium-Based Fuel May Play Role in Plutonium Disposition
- US House of Representatives Shoots Down Expansion Plans for CTR
- Israeli and Russian Official Hint Bushehr May Be Targeted During Iraqi War
- Long-Standing WMD Destruction Efforts Face Fight Under Shadow of Iraq
- IAEA Says Iranian 'Pilot' Uranium Enrichment Plant Almost Complete
- Russia and America OK Deal to Shut Down Plutonium Reactors
- Minatom Finally Concedes Iran May Have a Nuclear Weapons Programme
- UN Nuke Chief Finally Tells All About Iran
- US Nuclear Regulators Endorse MOX Fabrication Plans Despite Russian Side Delays
- IAEA Visit to Iran Reveals Uranium Enrichment Facility Near Nantanz
- Iran Admits to Uranium Mines and Reprocessing Plans
- Russian PM Kasyanov OKs Plutonium Reactors Shut Down By 2006
- US publicly offers SNF to Russia if Moscow abandons Iran
- 30 percent Increase in DOE's Non-proliferation Spending Requested
- Bush Administration to Increase Non-proliferation Funding
- Grigory Pasko Free At Last
- Pasko Parole Hearing Date Set
- Japan Confirms It Will Move Forward in Far East Sub Dismantlement
- Iran Signs Agreement Ensuring Return of Bushehr SNF to Russia
- FSB Plants Fake Bomb at RT-2 SNF Storage Facility
- Japan to Resume Nuclear Clean Up Projects in Far East
- Still No Deal for Return of Bushehr SNF
- Rumyantsev's Contradictory Comments on Bushehr SNF Fog Minatom's Intentions
- US Intelligence Says Russia Helping Iran in Nuclear Arms Effort
- Rapporteur Visits Moscow on Pasko Fact-Finding Mission
- FSB Raids Siberian Eco Group, Confiscating Maps and Computers
- Lugar Legislation Package Could Spearhead Decommissioning of Non-Strategic Subs
- Minatom and Environmentalists Square Off on Ministry Steps Over SNF Imports
- GAN Says Nuclear Materials Have Been Disappearing From Russian Plants for 10 Years
- Congress Gives US President Three-Year Waiver on Nunn-Lugar
- US Presents Russia What is Likely a Final Plan for Long-Stalled MOX Non-proliferation Programme
- Duma Deputy Mitrokhin to Fight for Evacuation of Mayak Area
- Pasko's Transition to Prison Camp Eased by Inmates
- Russia Says US Proposing to Send Spent Fuel if Moscow Gives Up on Bushehr
- Further Japanese Investment Could Do Much for Pacific Fleet's Nuclear Security
- CTR's Battle for Permanent Waiver Becomes Fight for its Very Existence
- Five Men on Trial in Minsk for Allegedly Selling Chernobyl Uranium
- AMEC to Begin Operations With Russia's Pacific Fleet
- Defence Ministry Cancels Secret Decree That Jailed Pasko
- Minatom Official Admits Iran is Hedging on Returning Bushehr SNF
- Far East Decommissioning Conference Cries for Cash
- Russia's Nuke Industry Wants to Clean Up PR Image
- Foreign Nuclear Experts Debate Russia's Future on the SNF Market
- Rejects complaint against secret decree
- Russian Nuke Technicians Flood Iran for Final Push at Bushehr Reactor
- Minatom Says Binding Plans for Return of Iranian SNF Ready to be Signed
- Bulgaria Signs Spent Nuclear Fuel Housecleaning Deal With Russia
- Sideline DOE Meetings Last Week Sound Death Knell for MOX Program — Again
- Minatom Cools on Heated Iranian Reactor Plan
- Mystery Proposal Could Subjugate Minatom to Three Government Bodies
- Fossil Fuel Plant to Replace Zheleznogorsk Plutonium Reactor May Already Be Literal Fossil
- Minatoms Starry-Eyed Import Plans Defy Safety Imperatives and Business Sense
- US Officials Claim of Russia Plutonium Theft has Authorities Scratching Their Heads
- Lone Grassroots Activist Seeks to Magnify his Voice
- Zheleznogorsk and Neighbouring Cities Fail to Find Common Language
- Plutonium Disposition Plan Narrowly Avoids Scrapping, But Still Has Many Critics
- Krasnoyarsk Sees Lenin Protest Spent Nuclear Fuel Imports
- Ambivalent Krasnoyarsk Court Kicks Big Decision to Moscow
- Legions of Police Assigned to Siberian Nuke Protestors
- Leaked Minatom Documents Show No Plan For Iranian SNF
- Supervisory Appeal May Be Paskos Last Chance
- Supreme Court Upholds Pasko Treason Sentence
- Pasko Appeal Will Be Heard in Supreme Court Tuesday
- US Official Says Mayak Warhead Storage Facility to Open in November
- Russia and America Formally Scrap Start II, ABM Treaties
- New US Budget Dumps Conversion of Russian Plutonium Reactors
- Fences for Nuclear Safety Seem Insurmountable
- Grassroots Rage Could Burn Radwaste Smelting Plant
- US Delegation Visits Embattled Shchuchye Chemical Weapons Storage Depot
- Minatom Jumps the Gun on Reactor Cooperation Program With US DOE
- Minatom to Build Radioactive Waste Repository on Novaya Zemlya
- Junk Treaty Avoids Russia's Real Non-proliferation Problems
- Supreme Court Blocks Hungarian Radwaste
- Proposals to Ship Taiwanese SNF to Russia Get Chilly Washington Reception
- Grigory Pasko hits 40 in prison
- Moscow Denies US Reports that Russia is Planning Nuclear Tests
- Russian Nuke Minister Says US Tensions Easing Over Iranian Nuke Plant
- Russia's Supreme Court reinstates confusion
- Minatom Chief in America to Lower Pulses Over Iranian Nuke Plant
- Stanford Database Tracks Lost Radwaste to Stem Nuclear Terrorism
- Minatom Shuts Down World's First Nuclear Reactor
- Police Haul Off Red Square Nuclear Protestors
- Bush and Putin likely to discuss spent fuel import to Russia
- Russian Supreme Court says President untouchable
- Secrete military decrees to exist until May
- Russia to dump radwaste in volcano
- RBMK fuel to be cut into pieces