Iran said it foiled a sabotage attack Wednesday on an atomic energy agency building in a mysterious incident that comes as the US blocked Iran-linked websites and as talks to revive a nuclear deal progressed. State television said a “sabotage operation against one of the buildings (of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran) was foiled” […]
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Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant shut down over ‘technical fault’
Iran’s southern Bushehr nuclear power plant has been temporarily shut down over a “technical fault”, the country’s atomic energy body said in a statement. “Following a technical fault at Bushehr power plant, and after a one-day notice to the energy ministry, the plant was temporarily shut down and taken off the power grid,” the Atomic […]
Iraq hopes to build 8 nuclear power reactors by 2030
Iraq, which suffers chronic electricity shortages, wants to construct eight nuclear power reactors by 2030 in order to reduce its external energy dependence, an official said Tuesday. The country currently uses electricity and gas imports from neighbouring Iran to generate around a third of its electricity. “By 2030-2031, we want to produce 25 percent of […]
China says ‘no abnormality’ in radiation levels around Taishan nuclear plant
Beijing said Tuesday that there had been no change in radiation levels at the Taishan nuclear power station in southern China, after its French operator said it was working to resolve an issue linked to gas build-up. “There is no abnormality in the radiation levels around the nuclear power plant, and safety is guaranteed,” said […]
French nuclear firm seeks to fix ‘performance issue’ at China plant
A French nuclear firm said Monday it was working to resolve a “performance issue” linked to a gas build-up at a plant it part-owns in southern China following a US media report of a potential leak there. CNN reported earlier that the US government is assessing a report of a leak at the Taishan Nuclear […]
Return of Iran nuclear deal needs only ‘will’: Rouhani
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday a breakthrough in talks in Vienna to revive a nuclear deal before he leaves office in August requires a “will” beyond his power. Rouhani is Iran’s main architect of the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, which was torpedoed by former US president Donald Trump in 2018. But the […]
Iran’s Rouhani says new nuclear steps will ‘accelerate’ its nuclear work: TV
DUBAI: Iranian President Rouhani said on Wednesday that new steps to further scale back Tehran’s commitments under a 2015 pact with major powers will accelerate Iran’s nuclear activity, state TV reported. “We will announce (cuts in commitments) which will accelerate the activities of Iran’s nuclear program,” Rouhani was quoted as saying by Iran’s state TV.
Russia says INF arms treaty dead ‘at the initiative of the US’
MOSCOW: Moscow on Friday announced the formal end of a major Cold War-era nuclear arms deal, after Washington launched the process to pull out of the INF treaty this year. The treaty — concluded in 1987 by then US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev — limited the Cold War powers’ medium-range missiles, […]
Iran says it will not extend 60-day nuclear deal deadline: Tasnim
Iran will not extend a 60-day deadline for it to start pulling out of more commitments agreed under its nuclear deal, the spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said on Wednesday. Iran stopped complying in May with some commitments in the 2015 nuclear deal that was agreed with global powers, after the United […]
Supposedly executed former North Korean nuclear envoy is alive: CNN
North Korea’s nuclear envoy, who a South Korean newspaper said last week had been executed, is alive but in custody and under investigation for his role in a failed summit with the United States, CNN reported on Tuesday. There has been a series of conflicting reports over the past five days about shakeups in the […]