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Turkey demands Israel comes clean about its Nuclear Weapons Status
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that Turkey will seek international inspectors to determine whether Israel possesses nuclear weapons. Erdogan highlighted that Israel is not a party to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and Turkey intends to ask the International Atomic Energy Agency to investigate Israel’s nuclear capabilities.
Erdogan emphasized...
UN approves large Fukushima discharge into Pacific Ocean, prompting China to ban Japanese seafood imports
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an international organization within the United Nations system, just approved a large Fukushima discharge into the Pacific Ocean. The pending discharge, which includes over 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools of “treated” radioactive water, will be released from the infamous Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Chinese customs and food safety regulators...
Japan Begins Releasing Highly Contaminated Radiated Water From Fukushima
A top government spokesperson announced on Friday that Japan intends to begin discharging more than a million tons of treated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean this year.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has approved the proposal, but the government will hold off on publicizing it until it has received “a detailed report” from the UN watchdog,...
UN Demands That Israel Eliminates Its Nuclear Arsenal
The U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday voted with an overwhelming majority on a resolution calling for Israel to get rid of all its nuclear weapons and place its nuclear sites under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The vote at the UNGA First Committee, which deals with disarmament, threats to peace and international security, passed with 149-6. The five nations...
IAEA says Israel is Lying about Iran's Nuclear Program
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed in a formal statement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an outright liar and completely manufactured claims of Iranian “nuclear weapons” in his recent “presentation”—a major blow to the efforts of the international Jewish lobby’s attempts to incite Americans into fighting another war for Israel.
In an official...
Iran removes Arak reactor core - Tehran's senior nuclear official
Iran’s top nuclear official has said the core of the Arak heavy water reactor has been removed – a step that brings the country closer to the lifting of international sanctions.
The announcement by Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi, reported by state TV, comes days after he said the reactor would be disabled this week.
“The core vessel of the Arak reactor...
Accident at largest nuclear power plant in Europe revealed by Ukraine PM
Zaporozhskaya nuclear plant
There has been an accident at a nuclear plant in the southeast of Ukraine, Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk has revealed during the first session of his new Cabinet.
A minor accident occurred at Zaporozhskaya nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, last Friday, according to the facility’s website. A reactor was switched off and put to maintenance as a result.
The incident...
IAEA to deliver Ebola diagnosis technology to Africa
A healthcare worker checks the temperature of an Ebola-infected woman at a World Health Organization center in Liberia on October 3, 2014.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) plans to provide the Ebola-ravaged West African countries with specialized diagnostic equipment.
A nuclear-derived diagnostic technology will be delivered to the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone...
Japan caught hiding 640 Kg of Plutonium from IAEA
Japan has failed to mention 640 kilograms of unused plutonium in its reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2012 and 2013.
An official in Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission said on Saturday that the 640 kg was part of the plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, known as MOX, that was placed in an offline reactor at the time and was considered as being used.
The MOX fuel was loaded...
Record outdoor radiation level that ‘can kill in 20 min’ detected at Fukushima
Outdoor radiation levels have reached their highest at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant,warns the operator company.Radiation found in an area near a steel pipe that connects reactor buildings could kill an exposed person in 20 minutes,local media reported.
The plant’s operator and the utility responsible for the clean-up Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) detected record radiation levels on a...
NSA spied on UN videoconferencing meetings
The US National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations’ headquarters in the US city of New York.
According to Germany’s weekly Der Spiegel in the summer of 2012, NSA experts managed to get into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracked its coding system.
“The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!),” Der Spiegel quoted one document....
Snowden confirms NSA created Stuxnet with Israeli aid
US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden
Fugitive US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden says the United States and Israel created the Stuxnet computer virus to sabotage Iran’s nuclear energy program.
In an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel published on Monday, Snowden, who has been holed up in a Moscow airport since June, said the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Israel...
Tehran and IAEA lock horns over inspecting Parchin facility
The IAEA delegation holding talks in Tehran hopes to finally inspect the Parchin military base, where Iran has allegedly tested elements of its nuclear program. Tehran has refused all previous attempts by the IAEA to get inside the compound.
The top item on the agenda for the UN nuclear watchdog’s delegation that arrived in Tehran for talks early Thursday is getting access to the Parchin military...
Israel faces sanctions after refusing to allow IAEA inspections
Israel fell into a carefully laid trap today by refusing to allow inspections of its weapons of mass destruction facilities. This has opened the door for the only possible response. It is sanction time for the Israelis. Let them reap what they have sown. And let us do what we must do.
If the shoe were on the other foot, the Zios would be screaming to have the facilities bombed, but we won’t do that....
Iran finds spy rock device at Fordow secret nuclear compound
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits a nuclear power plant in the central city of Natanz.
A British newspaper says Iran has discovered an electric monitoring device disguised as rock near the country’s Fordow nuclear energy facility.
The device was found by the members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who were checking on communications terminals at Fordow last month, Sunday...