Nuclear Power & Radiation

"Great Lakes Mayors Sound Alarm Over Radioactive Shipment"

"A binational coalition of over 70 mayors from Quebec, Ontario and the eight Great Lake States fear that the proposed maritime shipment of 16 giant radioactive steam generators from Ontario's Bruce Power to Sweden for recycling could release radioactivity into the water in the event of an accident during shipment."

Source: ENS, 12/03/2010

US, Kazakhstan Secure Weapons-Grade Plutonium From Soviet-era Reactor

"Enough plutonium and uranium to make 775 nuclear weapons has been removed from the BN-350 fast reactor in Kazakhstan, built to breed plutonium for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program, and placed in a secure storage facility to keep terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons."

Source: ENS, 11/19/2010

"G.O.P. Opposition Dims Hope for Arms Treaty With Russia"

"President Obama’s hopes of ratifying a new arms control treaty with Russia by the end of the year appeared to come undone on Tuesday as the chief Senate Republican negotiator moved to block a vote on the pact, one of the White House’s top foreign policy goals, in the lame-duck session of Congress."

Source: NYTimes, 11/17/2010

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