Tag Archives: Nuclear

U.S. man arrested in Yemen worked in nuclear plants

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: March 13, 2010
Reuters/By Mohamed Sudam and Scott DiSavino Mohamed Sudam And Scott Disavino – Fri Mar 12, 6:17 pm ET SANAA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yemen said on Friday it was holding a U.S. citizen suspected of being an al Qaeda militant who killed a hospital guard last week, and a U.S. firm said the suspect had worked at [...]
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Police Call Off Search For Nuclear Scientist Who Vanished Mysteriously

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: March 3, 2010
io9 Lachlan Cranswick, an Australian nuclear scientist who worked at a research facility in the small Ontario town of Deep River, vanished under extremely mysterious circumstances a month ago. Now authorities have given up on the strange, tragic search for him.
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A Quarter of U.S. Nuclear Plants Are Leaking a Radioactive Material Linked to Cancer

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 13, 2010
Harvey Wasserman/AlterNet Like a decayed flotilla of rickety steamers, at least 27 of America’s 104 aging atomic reactors are known to be leaking radioactive tritium, which is linked to cancer if inhaled or ingested through the throat or skin. The fallout has been fiercest at Vermont Yankee, where a flood of cover-ups has [...]
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Minot AFB: US Air Force sacks nuclear commander after blunders

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: October 19, 2009
Spacewar Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2009 The US Air Force said on Thursday the commander of a nuclear wing had been sacked after his unit failed a safety inspection, trucks carrying missile parts crashed and officers under him fell asleep with launch codes in hand.
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Undeclared plutonium scandal haunts France

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: October 19, 2009
PressTV Fri, 16 Oct 2009 French authorities have discovered enough undeclared plutonium to make five nuclear bombs at a nuclear facility south of the country.
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Russia to allow preventive nuclear strike

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: October 15, 2009
Russia may change its military doctrine to allow for a preventive nuclear strike, not only against a large conventionally armed force but against regional and even local forces. Can’t blame them really, when the US keeps putting missiles on their doorstep and messing around with countries like Georgia, a country that the FSB has linked [...]
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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: October 3, 2009
A senior Iranian lawmaker says Iran may consider withdrawing from the NPT if the Western powers continue to pressure the Islamic Republic to relinquish its inalienable right to enrich uranium to produce nuclear fuel. Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) announced today that they will introduce the [...]
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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: September 25, 2009
More UK vets in prison than in Afghanistan. Nearly half suffer from PTSD. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s report on Afghanistan to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post: Its release was merely the latest volley in the Pentagon’s unrestricted information warfare campaign to coerce its new commander in chief into supporting a never-ending “long war.” Jeremy Scahill: [...]
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