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Exclusive: Iran Digs in Heels on Nuclear
Centrifuges at Vienna Talks- Envoys
Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi, Rueters
June 18, 2014
Iran is refusing to significantly cut the number of centrifuges it intends to keep to produce nuclear fuel, making it hard to imagine a compromise at this week's talks with six powers, Western and Iranian officials said on Wednesday.
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France says Cooperation with China on
Nuclear Safety is Lacking
June 20, 2014
France's atomic regulator is troubled about the lack of communication with its Chinese opposite on projects to construct powerful, new nuclear reactors.
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Nuclear Weapons:
Ten-Year Budget Estimates for Modernization
Omit Key Efforts, and Assumptions and Limitations
Are Not Fully Transparent
Report to Congressional Committees, United States Government Accountability Office
June 2014
The Departments of Energy's (DOE) and Defense's (DOD) $263.8 billion, 10-year estimates in their report to Congress for sustaining and modernizing U.S. nuclear weapons capabilities are generally consistent with their funding plans through fiscal year 2018. However, GAO identified shortcomings with respect to the completeness of the budget estimates and the transparency of the assumptions and limitations that underlie the 10-year estimate.
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Nuclear Fuel Bank Negotiations Reach Final Stages, Agreement Expected Later This Year
Alevtina Donskikh, Eurasia & World
June 16, 2014
After 14 rounds of talks between Kazakhstan and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), agreement on the establishment of the IAEA bank of low-enriched uranium (LEU) is in the final stage and planned for a signing before the end of the year. The information was shared by Alexander Khodanov, director for sales of the Ulba Metallurgical Plant (UMP), which, as it is known, can become a platform for storing the LEU owned by the IAEA.
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Activists Call for Resignation of
Nuclear Regulatory Comissioner
Douglas P. Guarino, Global Security Newswire
June 19, 2014
Activist groups are asking an outgoing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner to resign immediately and recant his recent votes on key safety and security issues.
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Last Malmstrom ICBM Reconfigured Under Treaty
Jenn Rowell, Great Falls Tribune
June 18, 2014
In an effort to comply with New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, the Air Force completed work to reconfigure all of the nation's Minuteman III missiles, which are located at Malmstrom, F.E. Warren and Minot Air Force bases. The Minuteman III is the only intercontinental ballistic missile remaining in service.
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Probing Fukushima with Cosmic Rays Should Speed Cleanup
James E. Rickman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
June 18, 2014
The initiative could reduce the time required to clean up the disabled complex by at least a decade and greatly reduce radiation exposure to personnel working at the plant.
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The T-Word and Iran Negotiations
Mark Hibbs, Arms Control Wonk
June 9, 2014
Transparency is an elusive commodity in international nuclear affairs. Routinely cited as a universal virtue and not without a certain sanctimoniousness, this aspiration is sacrificed time and time again on the altar of political expediency.
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Iran says 'Redesigning' Nuclear Reactor
to Cut Plutonium Capacity
Reuters
Iran is "busy redesigning" a planned research reactor to sharply cut its potential output of plutonium - a potential nuclear bomb fuel, a senior Iranian official said in comments that seemed to address a key dispute in negotiations with world powers.
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Russia Agrees on India's Nuclear Liability Law
Press Trust of India
The agreement could not be signed in October last year as Moscow has raised objection over some clauses of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act.
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Iran says 6-Month Extension of Nuclear
Talks May Be Necessary
Reuters
Iran's talks with six global powers on a long-term deal to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for an end to sanctions could be extended for another six months if no deal is reached by a July 20 deadline, a senior Iranian official said on Monday.
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Dems Face Dilemma on Iran Delay...
Kristina Wong, The Hill
Senate Democrats face a dilemma over whether to buck the White House and press for new sanctions on Iran with bilateral talks on a nuclear deal almost certain to drag on for at least six more months.
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Why the US Should Keep Cooperating
with Russia on Nuclear Security
Siegfried S. Hecker and Peter E. Davis, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
May 29, 2014
"You have been brainwashed," our Russian hosts lamented during dinner at their Moscow apartment in late April. We had asked them how they reconcile biased Russian news reports with evidence of Russian Special Operations Forces in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. "What does Washington think it is doing by sending the CIA chief to Kiev to support those fascists?" they asked in response.
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Paying Too Much For Insurance
The Director General of the Defense Ministry, Maj. Gen. (res.) Dan Harel, disclosed last week that 4.5 billion shekels ($1.3 billion) of this year's defense budget is allocated to "special means."
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Related:
Iran's Nuclear Budget
Avner Cohen, Center for Nonproliferation Studies
June 9, 2014
In Israel, nuclear weapons do not officially exist.
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