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Private players in n-power may be allowed: scientist October 3rd, 2008 - 7:04 pm ICT by IANS - Chennai, Oct 3 (IANS) The country can allow private players into nuclear power generation if the issues of safety - of plant and materials - are taken care of, a leading scientist ...

Photo: Walter Whitman A windowless concrete structure standing alone on a stretch of desert in the northwestern United States is now a National Historic Landmark. The structure is the B Reactor, the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor and a key piece of the Manhattan Project.

N. Korea Warned of Reactor Work 4. September 2008 Before hauling disabled parts of its nuclear reactor out of warehouses, North Korea told the United States it planned to reassemble the plant, a South Korean official said.

South Korea urges North to stop nuclear work September 4th, 2008 - 9:25 am ICT by IANS - Seoul, Sep 4 (DPA) South Korea Thursday expressed concern after knowing that North Korea has started to reassemble its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, and urged Pyongyang to stop turning back the "progress of denuclearisation"."We've confirmed North Korea has actually started the work to reassemble its reactor.

A chemical engineer points to serious safety concerns at a South Carolina facility being built to convert recovered plutonium into fuel rods for nuclear power plants. Dan Tedder, emeritus professor of chemical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a former independent technical

It's so easy to become frustrated with North Korean tactics. Still, I noticed three aspects of this latest episode, when DPRK objected to the Bush administration's failure to remove it from the list of terrorist states and threatened to restore its plutonium-producing capabilities.

North Korea Threatens to Restore Plutonium Plant 27. August 2008 North Korea said that it had stopped disabling its main nuclear complex and threatened to restore facilities there, accusing the U.S. of not keeping its promise to take the country off a terrorism blacklist.

North Korea says it has stopped disabling its nuclear facilities, accusing the US of reneging on a six-party disarmament deal. Work was suspended on 14 August, a foreign ministry spokesman told the state news agency KCNA.

North Korea Makes Plutonium Threat 26. August 2008 North Korea said that it had stopped disabling its main nuclear complex and threatened to restore facilities there. Plutonium, North Korea, Atomic Weapons, International Relations, Armament, Defense and Military Forces | 0 Kommentare »

The world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor is now a National Historic Landmark, the federal government said.