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Kazakhstan believes the international community's first nuclear fuel bank can be up and running on Kazakh soil by late next year, potentially supporting the Obama administration's broader efforts to combat the spread of nuclear weapons. Kazakhstan is the world's largest producer of uranium ore and has been in consultations with …
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has appealed to eight countries, including India, to ratify the CTBT to bring the global nuclear test ban into force. The UN Secretary-General made the appeal after Indonesia became the 157th country to adopt the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Besides India, China, North Korea, Egypt, …
‘Iran is unlikely to decide to dash toward making nuclear weapons as long as its uranium enrichment capability remains as limited as it is today,’ the report said Iran is unlikely to move toward building a nuclear weapon this year because it does not yet have the capability to produce …
Oil prices rose modestly on Monday after the EU slapped an embargo on Iran's crude exports as part of tough new sanctions aimed at stopping Tehran from funding its disputed nuclear program. New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate crude for March delivery gained $1.25 to $99.58 a barrel after …
New Delhi: India’s long hunt for a nuclear submarine is finally over. But it will take the country another 10-12 months to get an operational nuclear weapon triad — the capability to fire nukes from land, air and sea. India on Monday became the world’s sixth country after the US, …
NEW DELHI: Even as China cuts down drastically its oil imports from Iran, which is soon likely to run into fresh sanctions from the US and the EU, India on Tuesday declared it will continue to import crude oil from the country. Brushing aside US sanctions that prevent financial institutions …
India along with China, North Korea and Israel has low levels of transparency on nuclear materials and security, an independent report has said. "Four countries have particularly low levels of transparency, specifically Israel, North Korea, India and China, on materials and materials security," said Page Stoutland, vice president for nuclear …
TEHRAN: Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site well protected from possible airstrikes, a leading hardline newspaper reported on Sunday in another show of defiance against Western pressure to rein in Tehran's nuclear program. Another newspaper quoted Revolutionary Guard deputy commander Ali Ashraf Nouri as saying that …
Iran has taken steps in recent weeks that bring it closer to launching uranium enrichment deep inside a mountain, diplomatic sources say, a move that would worsen its nuclear confrontation with the West. Iran has said for months that it is preparing to conduct uranium enrichment at Fordow - a …
Iranian scientists have produced the nation’s first nuclear fuel rod, a feat of engineering the West has doubted Tehran capable of, the country’s nuclear agency said Sunday, in a snub to international demands that it halt sensitive nuclear work. Scientists and researchers at the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran have …
Pakistan and India on Sunday exchanged lists of nuclear installations and facilities, under an agreement to prevent the two nuclear neighbouring countries from attacking each other's nuclear sites. The two countries also exchanged lists of prisoners in each other's custody, under another accord binding the two sides to provide details …
Iranian scientists have produced their first nuclear fuel rod, Iran’s nuclear agency said Sunday, another step despite United Nations sanctions and measures by the United States and others to stop the nation’s atomic work and shut down any possible pathways to weapons production. Iran has long said it is forced …
Indian Navy is set to receive a major boost when the much-awaited Russian 'Nerpa' nuclear attack submarine would join its fleet "in the next few days" on a 10-year lease worth $920 million. The Akula-II class Nerpa nuclear submarine has finished sea trials and is now ready to be leased …
Islamabad/New Delhi: Senior officials of India and Pakistan on Tuesday ended their two-day talks in Islamabad by agreeing to consider renewing for another five years a pact on reducing nuclear accidents and to explore additional confidence-building measures (CBMs). The Indian delegation, led by D B Venkatesh Varma, joint secretary (disarmament) …
The Australian Labour Party has backed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal to reverse the ban on sale of uranium to India. It was the Labour Party that forced the then Premier, Kevin Rudd, to overturn an assurance by the Conservative Party that was in power previously, to sell uranium to …
Australia's ruling Labor Party on Sunday endorsed plans to open up uranium sales to India, clearing the way for talks on a bilateral nuclear agreement and resolving an issue that has caused diplomatic tensions between the two nations. Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the plan in November, but needed her …
The Obama administration plans to impose a new round of sanctions against Iran’s petrochemical industry, a Western official briefed on the plans said Friday, less than two weeks after a United Nations report published evidence that the Iranian government was working on a nuclear weapon. The sanctions, expected to be …
The Obama administration pressed Iran to account for a discrepancy of nearly 20 kilograms in its reporting to the United Nations' nuclear agency on how much natural uranium metal it has in its stockpile. U.S. diplomats told a quarterly gathering Friday of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board that …
However, Nuke Plan Won’t Affect Delhi’s Broader Engagement With Tehran New Delhi: As the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) works on a resolution to censure Iran yet again for its nuclear programme, India believes there is little to stop the Islamic republic from proceeding with weaponization. India believes the latest …
The United Nations' top nuclear official urged Iran to allow a visit by a high-level delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency to discuss growing evidence that Tehran has been developing the technologies to build atomic weapons. The United Nations' top atomic official, Yukiya Amano, wants access to key Iranian …
