South Africa has enough nuclear fuel for about six bombs – each of them would wipe out Washington, DC, or large sections of New York City. After apartheid officially ended with the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president, South Africa started extracting the uranium from the apartheid government’s cache of nuclear weapons. Some of […]

Egypt and Russia have agreed in principle on a program to build Egypt’s first nuclear power reactor and the leaders from both countries have witnessed the signing ceremony of, among other bilateral agreements, a project development agreement for a two-unit Russian power plant and desalination plant, reports the Egyptian state-run news agency MENA. Egypt’s President […]

Independent nonproliferation experts can now get images offering much greater detail about Iran’s and North Korea’s above-ground nuclear facilities. Last week, the satellite company DigitalGlobe announced the U.S. Commerce Department had approved a long-standing license request to sell its highest-available resolution photographs to commercial clients. Previously, the U.S. government had forbidden the sale of images […]

  Four prominent U.S. and Australia-based climate and Earth-system scientists released an open letter early November calling on world leaders and environmentalists to support the development and deployment of safer nuclear power plants as a practical means of addressing the global climate change problem. Read the full letter published by CNN The authors urge policy […]