The White House has warned North Korea about "damaging consequences" if it went ahead with another nuclear test as being reported in the media. "We have warned North Korea about the damaging consequences, or at least I should say, the further isolation that's caused by their failure to live up to their international obligations," the White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said yesterday. ...
09:02 AM, Feb 16, 2013
France, a key player in the P5 1 talks with Iran on its contentious nuclear programme, today asked India to "convince" its "close friend" Tehran to enter into serious negotiations and respect international obligations with regard to nuclear non-proliferation. ...
04:08 PM, Feb 15, 2013
North Korea successfully detonated a miniaturized nuclear device at a northeastern test site Tuesday, state media said, defying UN Security Council orders to shut down atomic activity or face more sanctions and international isolation. The underground explosion could take North Korea a big step closer to its goal of building a nuclear warhead small enough to be mounted on a long-range missile that could threaten the United States. ...
12:01 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Seismic activity has been detected in North Korea with an earthquake measuring 4.9 registered by the US Geological Survey. North Korea is not prone to seismic activity and it could possibly indicating that the country has carried out a promised nuclear test. ...
09:15 AM, Feb 12, 2013
Iran has accepted US offer for talks on its nuke programme on February 25th in Kazakhstan. US Vice President Joe Biden had offered to hold direct negotiations with Tehran. ...
01:20 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Recent satellite photos show North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a US research institute said on Friday. ...
06:39 AM, Jan 26, 2013
India had launched a series of missiles, rockets and dropped experimental bombs to divert attention of "snoopers" before conducting the 1998 nuclear tests, APJ Abdul Kalam, considered the father of India's missile programmee, said on Thursday. ...
03:28 AM, Jan 25, 2013
With the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project coming closer, anti-nuclear activists are upping the ante once again. CNN-IBN's senior correspondent Meenakshi Mahadevan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the anti-nuke protests. ...
12:38 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Chennai: Anti-nuclear activists in Chennai on Monday morning laid siege to the state secretariat, demonstrating against the India visit by a team from the international watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Activists showed black flags and banners to decry the atomic inspectors' visit. The inspectors have been invited by the Centre to inspect safety practices adopted by the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station in Rawatbhata near Kota. The team will submit...
11:54 AM, Oct 29, 2012
Washington: The United States is in close consultations with countries like India, China and Russia on implementing sanctions against Iran, a senior US official has said. "We are in close consultation with India, with China, with Russia, with countries around the world, about strengthening their implementation of the international sanctions regime and about curtailing their dependence on Iranian crude oil," Victoria Nuland, State Department spokesperson told reporters. "Since the new...
09:14 AM, Jan 07, 2012
India is experiencing, for the first time, what many other countries have experienced for years - a demonstration of how easy it is for anti-nuclear activists to rouse public opinion to fever pitch by playing on the mysteries of the atom and the nature of radiation. Nothing has actually occurred in India to justify such public concern. But Fukushima has created just enough confusion for agitators to persuade people in...
11:29 AM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: The crisis at the Koodankulam nuke plant in Tamil Nadu has escalated as the Centre for Public interest Litigation on Friday filed a PIL in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Nuclear Liability Act. The PIL has sought a reassessment of all nuclear facilities in India and their long-term cost benefit analysis. Meanwhile, protests took an ugly turn at the plant with the police beating...
02:20 PM, Oct 14, 2011
Tokyo: A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Japan this week to help with the massive cleanup of areas contaminated by a radiation-leaking nuclear power plant, officials said on Tuesday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said the 12-member team will help plan and conduct the decontamination during its nine-day visit starting on Friday. It will also visit the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, meet...
01:12 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Blair: Officials say that floodwater seeping into the turbine building at a nuclear power plant near Omaha on the banks of the Missouri River is not a safety risk. Omaha Public Power District spokesman Jeff Hanson said on Monday that seepage was expected at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station and that pumps are handling the problem. Hanson says no nuclear material is kept in the turbine building and that "everything...
02:01 AM, Jun 28, 2011
Addis Ababa: Pakistan's fast deteriorating security situation has set off strong concerns in India over the danger posed by Islamabad's nuclear arsenal falling into wrong hands. The "real risk" is internal and "who guards the guardian", official sources said in response to a question on the safety of its nuclear weapons and the string of terror attacks in Pakistan including the latest at its Mehran naval base in Karachi. Though...
06:47 PM, May 23, 2011
Tokyo: Japan's nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant on Tuesday to rank it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. An official with the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaking on national television, said the rating was being raised from 5 to 7 - the highest level on the international scale. The official, who was not named, said the amount of radiation...
07:55 AM, Apr 12, 2011
Tokyo: Japan's prime minister made his first visit to the country's tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered a nuclear exclusion zone to meet workers grappling to end the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. Prime Minister Naoto Kan spoke with refugees living in a makeshift camp in the fishing village of Rikuzentakata, decimated by the tsunamis which struck on March 11 when Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake, leaving 28,000...
09:07 AM, Apr 02, 2011
Sendai: Workers grappled on Sunday with how to remove and store highly radioactive water pooling in three troubled units at a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan that has been leaking radiation making its way into food and water. The discovery of puddles with radiation levels 10,000 times the normal sparked a temporary evacuation of the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant on Thursday. Two workers who stepped into the water were...
09:25 AM, Mar 27, 2011
The Japanese government has issued an advisory to a village near Fukushima Daiichi plant not to drink tap water, due to elevated levels of radioactive iodine. ...
07:48 AM, Mar 21, 2011
Tokyo: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit northern Japan on Saturday, broadcaster NHK said. The epicenter was not far from Japan's stricken nuclear power plant. There was no tsunami threat and no immediate reports of injuries or damage, NHK added. Kyodo agency reported that a change in the sea level may occur following the quake, but no damage is expected. Japan has been hit by hundreds of...
04:56 PM, Mar 19, 2011
