GE-Hitachi Fined for "Significant" Security Breaches Nuclear Fuel Effort bi2560447 WASHINGTON?GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy has paid more than $45,000 penalties for "significant" violations of federal regulations effort to develop a new means of producing atomic fuel, Global Security Newswire has learned

Finland to host meeting on nuke-free Mideast bi2560447 The United Nations, U.S., Russia and Britain announced the first steps Friday to convening what certain to be a controversial conference 2012 on turning the Middle East a zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction

Mary-Charlotte Domandi: A Giant New Plutonium Complex at Los Alamos bi2560447 Despite the recent catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima complex, the desire among our leaders for nuclear power remains as strong today as was at the height of the Cold War

U.S.-China Nuclear Talks Stymied by Distrust and Miscommunication bi2560447 The two powers are struggling to come together on a shared policy for nuclear weapons, everything from mixed messaging to shoddy translations making cooperation harder and a deal less likely..

GE-Hitachi Fined for "Significant" Security Breaches Nuclear Fuel Effort bi2560447 WASHINGTON?GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy has paid more than $45,000 penalties for "significant" violations of federal regulations effort to develop a new means of producing atomic fuel, Global Security Newswire has learned

Deficit Panel Should Not Slice Nuclear Agency Funds, Lawmaker Says bi2560447 The top Democrat on a powerful House panel said he does not believe the congressional super committee charged finding ways to trim the nation's deficit by $1.2 trillion should consider reducing funds aimed at maintaining and refurbishing the country's nuclear-weapons complex (see GSN, Oct. 25)

From the Manhattan Project to the Cloud bi2560447 Rose Gottemoeller Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Sidney Drell Lecture at Stanford University Stanford, CA..

Livermore Lab director named bi2560447 LIVERMORE ? Penrose "Parney" C. Albright has been named the director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Norman J. Pattiz, chairman of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), manages the lab for the U.S. Department of Energy, made the announcement today (Oct. 27)

ANALYSIS - New U.N. sanctions unlikely North Korea tests rocket bi2560447 UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China and Russia are all but certain to stymie a U.S. push for new U.N. sanctions on North Korea fires off a rocket, leaving tighter enforcement of existing penalties a likelier outcome

Why Taiwan Matters, Part II bi2560447 Kurt M. Campbell Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Washington, DC..

South Korea?s Nuclear Weapons Temptation bi2560447 The warm welcome accorded to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak Washington week reaffirmed the close alliance. Since the end of the Korean War 1953, South Korea has relied on the US to deter threats from North Korea

Some Nuclear Experts Question Ramp-Up U.S. Tritium Production bi2560447 The U.S. nuclear complex expanding production of an exotic gas widely seen as essential for keeping nuclear weapons functioning, but some progressive issue experts cast doubt on just how much new fabrication required (see GSN, Aug. 25)

Will the Alleged Iran Murder Plot Redefine Narcoterrorism? bi2560447 Two seemingly unrelated events unfolded last week. On Tuesday Washington, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the stunning disruption of an alleged plot by a former used-car salesman from Texas and members of Iran's Quds Force to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. using the hired muscle of Mexican drug traffickers. Then on Wednesday, a House subcommittee held a hearing on ..

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