IAEA warns Israel-Iran conflict threatens nuclear facilities

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, has warned that escalating hostilities between Israel and Iran, now in a fourth day, pose grave dangers to diplomacy and nuclear safety and has urged all parties to exercise maximum restraint.

NASA : a nuclear explosion in space would disable the entire satellite network

One nuclear explosion in space can disrupt the entire satellite network, and six such explosions will completely destroy satellite systems. This was stated by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

Safety at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant deteriorating after strike, says IAEA

Safety at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is deteriorating following a drone strike that hit a perimeter access road on Saturday, according to International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Mariano Grossi.

Global Nuclear Risks Seriously Increased Due to Destructive Policy of West - Moscow

The amount of nuclear risks in the world have seriously increased due to the destructive policy of the West, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.

Iran to Reconsider Nuclear Policies if Israel Threatens Nuclear Facilities, to attack Israel's "nuclear centers"

Commander of the IRGC's Nuclear Facilities Protection and Security Command Brigadier General Ahmad Haqtalab warned of potential revisions to Iran's nuclear policies if Israel continues to threaten attacks on its nuclear sites.

Goal of nuclear safety zone is to ‘stop Ukraine shelling’: Russia

The Russian foreign ministry says the primary goal of a proposed safety zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is to “stop Ukraine shelling”.

No ‘sign of undeclared nuclear activities’ in Ukraine: Rafael Grossi

UN watchdog Thursday said it had seen no indications of “undeclared nuclear activities” at three locations in Ukraine during visits at Kyiv’s request to address “dirty bomb” allegations made by Russia.

US Policies Enter Dangerous Area of Nuclear Terrorism Threat: Russian Lawmaker - Tasnim News Agency

US policies have entered the most dangerous area of nuclear terrorism threat with the White House setting targets for Ukraine’s attacks, Russian State Duma (the lower house of parliament) Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya told reporters on Wednesday.

Ukraine sees no alternative to nuclear power 30 years after Chernobyl

Thirty years have passed since the Chernobyl power plant disaster, one of the world's worst nuclear accidents, which has caused widespread environmental pollution and left the areas around the plant uninhabitable for centuries or even millennia to come.

Joint Statement by the H. R./Vice-President Federica Mogherini, Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Commissioner Johannes Hahn and Commissioner Neven Mimica on the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster

European Commission - Statement:
"The Chornobyl accident on 26 April 1986 caused devastation and suffering on a large scale. Lives were tragically lost; families were uprooted. Even now, 30 years later, people in Ukraine, Belarus and other affected countries continue to struggle with the long-term health and environmental consequences of the disaster. This human dimension of the disaster remains in our minds.

30 ans de Tchernobyl: la sécurité nucléaire n'est jamais "un acquis", rappelle l'AIEA

La sécurité nucléaire n'est jamais un "acquis", a rappelé mardi le secrétaire général de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA) à l'occasion du 30e anniversaire de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl.

Fukushima: Japan lifts town’s evacuation order. It is seen as a pilot case for nearby areas

The Japanese government on Saturday lifted the evacuation order for the first town near the crippled Fukushima reactors, more than four years after ordering mass relocations near the tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant.

UN atomic energy chief: Iran invites inspectors to visit Arak nuclear facility

28 November 2013 – Iran has invited inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to visit a nuclear heavy water facility, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog announced today.

“I can inform the Board that we have received an invitation from Iran to visit the Heavy Water Production Plant at Arak on 8 December,” Director General Yukiya Amano told the Agency's Board of Governors at a meeting in Vienna updating the body on the IAEA's work on nuclear verification, safety, security and the peaceful use of nuclear technologies.
“All other outstanding issues, including those raised in my previous reports to the Board, will be addressed in subsequent steps,” he said, recalling that on 11 November, he had signed a Joint Statement on a Framework for Cooperation with Iran.

At the height of the Cold War, the US almost nuked ... itself. - How close the US came to an inadvertent nuclear detonation in 1961

The U.S. Air Force came perilously close to leveling a large part of North Carolina in a 1961 nuclear mishap, with a single toggle switch stopping an accidentally dropped bomb from detonating, newly declassified documents show.
A document published for the first time by the Guardian newspaper Friday details how narrowly the state escaped becoming ground zero for the inadvertent explosion after an H-bomb fell from the midair wreckage of a disintegrating bomber.
The accident happened on Jan. 25, 1961 -- mere days after the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, who as president had his own more publicized brush with the reality of nuclear detonation a year later during the flashpoint with the Soviet Union that was the Cuban Missile Crisis.

H ιστορία στο Τόκιο:Συνομιλίες υπουργών και εμπειρογνωμόνων στη Φουκουσίμα για την πυρηνική ασφάλεια (Nuclear Safety)

Η Διεθνής Υπηρεσία Ατομικής Ενέργειας [1] από κοινού με την κυβέρνηση της Ιαπωνίας διοργανώνουν στη Νομαρχία της Φουκουσίμα διάσκεψη για την πυρηνική ασφάλεια.

Η διάσκεψη πραγματοποιείται στην πόλη Κοριγιάμα κοντά στον ατομικό σταθμό ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας της Φουκουσίμα, που είχε πληγεί λόγω του σεισμού και του τσουνάμι τον Μάρτιο του 2011.

Ο επικεφαλής του ιαπωνικού ΥΠΕΞ Κοϊτσίρο Γκέμπα δήλωσε κατά την έναρξη των εργασιών του φόρουμ ότι η ιαπωνική πλευρά ανέλυσε το ατύχημα στον πυρηνικό σταθμό και την εξέλιξη της εξάλειψης των συνεπειών του και επιθυμεί να μοιραστεί την εμπειρία της.