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ICHIHARA, Chiba -- A man who stole a container with radioactive material in it from a company here and apparently dumped the substance in a river in Yokohama has been arrested, police said. Tomonori Iso, 40, was arrested on suspicion of stealing a container of iridium 192 from a storage room at Non-Destructive Inspection Co., in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture. He has reportedly admitted to the allegations against him.
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A small group of citizens in California are trying to reclaim their rights -- both those rights taken unconstitutionally by the federal government, and those rights relinquished by their own state agencies to the feds.
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Although a dozen years have elapsed since any new nuclear power reactor has come online in the U.S., there are now stirrings of a nuclear renaissance. The incentives are certainly in place: the costs of natural gas and oil have skyrocketed; the public increasingly objects to the greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels; and the federal government has offered up to $8 billion in subsidies and insurance against delays in licensing (with new laws to streamline the process) and $18.5 billion in loan guarantees. What more could the moribund nuclear power industry possibly want?
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging stepped-up efforts to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists and black marketeers. It calls on all states to fully implement a council resolution approved in April 2004 requiring all 192 U.N. member states to adopt laws to prevent "non-state actors" from acquiring nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
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The next time Islamist terrorists attack us it could be with a nuclear weapon. By saying that, am I "fear mongering"? If so, I'm in good company. Graham Allison is a Harvard professor who served with distinction in the Defense Department under both Presidents Reagan and Clinton. He wrote a book in 2004 arguing that "on the current course, nuclear terrorism is inevitable."
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NEW YORK (AFP) — US authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of a US Army veteran on charges he disclosed secret defense information, including on nuclear weapons, to Israel in a case linked to the huge 1980s Jonathan Pollard spy scandal. Ben-Ami Kadish, now 84, worked as a mechanical engineer at a US Army weapons center in New Jersey, from where he provided classified documents to Israel's consul for science affairs in New York from 1979 to 1985, the Justice Department said.
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Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA) yesterday in Abuja said it had evacuated three high-risk radioactive sources from the country. Director-general, Prof. Shamsideen Elegba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the evacuation was carried out in conjunction with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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LONDON — A long-running feud between two of the richest post-Soviet entrepreneurs reached the High Court in London on Friday. The court began hearings on a $2 billion lawsuit by Boris Berezovsky, self-exiled in London since 2000, against Roman Abramovich. The two so-called oligarchs amassed fortunes in Russia during the privatization of state-owned assets in the 1990s, when the country’s first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, oversaw a large sell-off of the Soviet Union’s principal industries, including oil and gas.
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