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 […]