Sting Reveals Security Gap at Nuclear Agency
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Undercover congressional investigators posing as West Virginia businessmen obtained a license with almost no scrutiny from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that enabled them to buy enough radioactive material from U.S. suppliers to build a "dirty bomb," a new government report says.
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Inexperienced personnel cited as a risk to espionage work.
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TEHRAN: The spokesman for Iranâs cabinet said on Monday the republic was willing to show greater transparency over its nuclear programme in order to ease suspicions of bomb-making.
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South Korea&#39;s nuclear and uranium experiments that were conducted years ago are under scrutiny at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Officials of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which runs the nuclear weapons complex, said yesterday that they hope to receive administration and congressional authorization by the end of 2008 for the development and production of a warhead that could be deployed on submarine-launched...
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The National Nuclear Security Administration proposed a $1.1 million civil penalty against the former manager of a nuclear weapons lab for more than a dozen safety violations
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Libya has offered conflicting information about whether North Korea or Pakistan was the supplier of uranium for its nuclear weapons program and has been unable to account for some equipment that could be used to make a bomb, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which released a report yesterday on its investigation of Libya and the nuclear blackmarket that supplied it.
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Human error led to a January security breach at the Los Alamos National Laboratories that may have exposed nuclear secrets, according to a letter from Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to Rep. John Dingell.
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Security at three Russian nuclear power plants has &quot;serious shortcomings&quot; despite steps to improve security levels, Russia&#39;s deputy prosecutor general, Vladimir Kolesnikov, said Thursday.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering the reversal of a three-year secrecy policy that could make public thousands of documents involving the troubled operations of a Tennessee nuclear fuel processing plant.
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A suspicious substance sparks a security alert at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in Cumbria.
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Nuclear safety at the Sellafield plant is to be questioned in the courts after complaints from the European Commission. The European Court of Justice will hear allegations that Britain is not allowing the EC proper access for inspections.
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Bush administration efforts to screen U.S.-bound cargo for radioactive weapons are unlikely to stop a determined militant group from smuggling nuclear material onto American soil, experts said on Thursday.
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As part of the fallout from an incident at Los Alamos National Lab in July, five workers have been fired. They are among 23 suspended when computer disks containing classified information went missing.
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The head of the UN nuclear agency said yesterday he is aware that nuclear experiments South Korea conducted several years ago were small, but said his agency needs to make sure they will not be repeated.
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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 Defense Department is displaying a "precipitous decrease in attention" to the security and control of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, according to a Defense Science Board task force that examined the broader causes behind the U.S. flight in August of a B-52 bomber that inadvertently carried six cru...