Beijing has successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, China’s People’s Daily reported on Friday. It’s designed to be a clean energy source, similar to the real Sun. Made to replicate the natural reactions that occur in the sun using hydrogen and deuterium gases as fuels, the HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China’s largest and most advanced nuclear... 

The Bushehr nuclear power plant, located in southern Iran. According to Russia, the first reactor at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant has gone into operation, as reported by AP. A spokesperson for the Atomstroyexport company, the Russian contractor of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, says the activities at the plant is progressing well and on schedule. Olga Tysleva told IRNA on Friday... 

Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in an air raid just weeks before it went online in 2007, said a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks and published on Friday in an Israeli daily. “On September 6, 2007, Israel destroyed the nuclear reactor built by Syria secretly, apparently with North Korea’s help,” then US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice wrote in the cable published...