Group warns Russia nuclear dump unstable
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A nuclear waste dump in the Russia Arctic may be in danger of exploding because of corrosion caused by salt water in enormous storage tanks, the Norwegian environmental group Bellona warned Friday.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 18--The U.S. energy secretary made an alarming statement earlier this month. Secretary Samuel Bodman said at a congressional hearing that the plan to clean up a radioactive uranium dump that threatens the Colorado River may be delayed by 16 years.
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Mohamed ElBaradei warned the world today that nuclear assets in Iraq have been looted and nuclear materials have disappeared. Greenpeace made that warning more than a year ago when we located radioactive materials
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signaled that Russia was opposed to any new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, saying such a move would undermine the work of the U.N. atomic watchdog, Russian news agencies reported Thursday
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The Arctic Barents Sea is under threat from overfishing, oil and gas exploration and Soviet-era radioactive waste, the U.N. Environment Program said on Tuesday.
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YEONGJONGDO - The head of the United Nationsâ nuclear watchdog agency yesterday said âserious concernâ is a statement that applies to any nuclear activities that have not been declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency in accordance with the
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Wrecks and abandoned munitions around the British coast risk exploding unpredictably, an expert says.
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The head of the UN atomic watchdog warned Monday against expecting quick breakthroughs in the North Korean nuclear crisis as he prepared for a landmark visit to the isolated Stalinist state.
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One reactor at a Russian nuclear power station was closed down after a malfunction, but there was no leak of radiation at the site near the city of Saratov on the Volga river, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.
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North Korea plans to seal its nuclear reactor, the source of weapons-grade plutonium, in the second half of July, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted an unidentified North Korean diplomatic source as saying on Monday.
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A Russian prosecutor pointed out Thursday that some of Russia&#39;s nuclear power plants and petrochemical enterprises do not have sufficient safeguards against terrorist attacks, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.
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Two climate scientists and a former Republican governor warned the House Science and Technology Committee Feb. 13 that the U.S. Earth-observing satellite system is in danger of collapse without a substantial and immediate reinvestment.
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Japan, Britain and the European Union all expressed worries on Tuesday about RussiaÂs actions.
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Government plans to dispose of nuclear waste are attacked as "incoherent and opaque" by a committee of peers.
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Japan's foreign minister warned Russia on Wednesday not to make any provocative moves over four Russian-held islands that both nations claim.
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Russian minister repeats retaliation warning.