America Goes Nuclear
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NRG files first nuke plant application since Three Mile Island.
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As North Korea, South Korea, and Iran raise risks of an arms race, the global challenge to nonproliferation grows.
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The United States is responding carefully to Iran&#39;s announcement that it has taken a major step toward enriching uranium, a key ingredient in nuclear weapons.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The Bush administration responded calmly yesterday to North Korean statements it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons.
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Middle East News, TEHRAN - To cries of &quot;Death to America&quot; and &quot;God is Greatest&quot;, Iran&#39;s hardliner-dominated parliament has passed a bill obliging the government to press ahead with efforts to develop a nuclear energy programme.
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Highlights of the U.S. program to reduce the threat of terrorists obtaining nuclear materials in Russia and at foreign research reactors.
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The question has become more urgent as Tehran resists the International Atomic Energy Agency&#39;s demand that it suspend the enrichment of uranium, part of a process that can lead either to electricity generation or a stockpile of atomic bombs.
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WASHINGTON _ A few years ago, the plan to store the nation's nuclear waste in Nevada seemed all but certain.  Congress decided that highly radioactive waste from commercial nuclear-power plants, which takes centuries to decay, needed to be stored underground.
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Description: President Bush calls for a halt in the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran. Meeting with Pacific Rim leaders in Santiago, Chile, the president also urged Russia&#39;s President Vladimir Putin to adhere to democratic principles.
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North Korea has told the United States it has shut down a nuclear reactor as part of a disarmament deal, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday after a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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UNITED NATIONS - North Korea has turned the enriched uranium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said on Monday.
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The U.S. Congress approved legislation Saturday allowing U.S. shipments of civilian nuclear fuel to India, handing President Bush a victory on a top initiative and setting up a major shift in U.S. policy. Critics said the measure would spark a nuclear arms race in Asia by boosting India's atomic arsenal.
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Explosive growth has made the People's Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on Earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine.
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Three years ago today, the terrorists who struck at the United States changed America forever. Now, a similarly profound change is taking place in another country: Russia.
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Enough weapons-grade plutonium to make more than 15,000 nuclear bombs will be vulnerable to hijacking by terrorists and rogue states as the result of a disarmament initiative.
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The Bush administration yesterday announced its intention to modernize and sharply reduce the size of the nation's aging nuclear weapons program by closing or abandoning 600 buildings at facilities across the country and gradually reducing the associated workforce by at least 7,200.
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Within a year, officials plan to move all weapons-grade nuclear material from Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Nevada Test Site. The transfer will begin this month.