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A picture shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC) new metal dome designed and built by French consortium Novarka encasing the destroyed reactor at Chernobyl plant on July 10, 2019, in Chernobyl. - Ukraine and its European partners on July 10 formally inaugurated a new metal dome encasing the destroyed reactor at the infamous Chernobyl plant, wrapping up a two-decade effort. Branded as the world's largest moveable metal structure, the so-called New Safe Confinement seals the remains of the fourth reactor at the nuclear plant that was the site of the massive Chernobyl disaster in 1986. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP)
July 11, 2019, 4:20 am
Ukraine inaugurates giant dome over destroyed Chernobyl reactor
World’s largest movable metal structure, costing $1.7 billion, seals remains of fourth reactor at nuclear plant that was the site of massive 1986 disaster
By AFP
Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tours an innovation gallery of Saudi Arabian technology, including an exhibit by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, during a visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., March 24, 2018. (Josh Reynolds/AP Images for KAUST)
November 6, 2018, 5:41 am
Saudi Arabia prepares to build first nuclear research reactor
Raising concerns of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, crown prince lays foundations for first of 16 planned sites to be built over the next two decades
By AFP and TOI staff
View of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, southern Israel, in 2016 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
June 28, 2018, 8:11 am
Israel said to fortify nuclear reactors against Iranian missile strikes
Atomic energy officials say Iranian or Hezbollah attack on facilities unlikely to endanger population, but would serve as propaganda coup
By TOI staff
Visitors look at the models of oil tanker shaped floating nuclear reactors and oil rigs showcased at the display booth of China's state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation during the China International Exhibition on Nuclear Power Industry in Beijing, Thursday, April 27, 2017. AP Photo/Andy Wong)
April 16, 2018, 4:43 am
Iran MP claims China in talks to build it small nuclear reactors
The mini reactors could be used in nuclear submarines, with Tehran reportedly looking to develop seaborne atomic capabilities
By TOI staff
In this photo taken on March 7, 2018, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives for talks at 10 Downing Street in London. (AFP Photo/Tolga Akmen)
March 16, 2018, 2:03 am
Iran slams ‘simple-minded’ Saudi crown prince over Hitler jab
Tehran hits back after Mohammed bin Salman likens Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Nazi leader in TV interview
By AFP
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman seen talking to CBS News, March 15, 2018. (Screenshot)
March 15, 2018, 3:19 pm
Saudi Arabia vows to obtain nuclear weapons if Iran does
In US interview, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman threatens atomic arms race, says the Iranian supreme leader ‘very much like Hitler’
By Sue Surkes
The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)
September 19, 2017, 10:34 am
Government has no plans to close aging Dimona nuclear facility
Officials says reactor doesn’t pose any safety concerns despite having exceeded its life expectancy by more than a decade
By TOI staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, Fujian province, China, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017.(MENA via AP)
September 4, 2017, 7:39 pm
Egypt finalizes deal with Russia for first nuclear plant
President Sissi invites Putin to attend event marking start of facility’s construction
By AP
In this Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, a member of the media tour group wearing a protective suit and a mask looks at the No. 3 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP, File)
August 10, 2017, 12:53 pm
‘Unexploded WWII bomb’ found at Japan Fukushima nuclear plant
Construction workers uncover 3-foot explosive believed dropped by US near decommissioned facility’s reactors
By AFP
Mordechai Vanunu seen at a Jerusalem Supreme Court hearing on January 30, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 20, 2017, 9:03 pm
Nuclear secret spiller says Israel still ‘hounding’ him
Mordechai Vanunu, released in 2004 after 18 years jail for leaking nuke secrets to newspaper, awaits new sentence
By AFP
Iran's heavy water nuclear facility, near the central city of Arak (AP/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan/File)
March 18, 2017, 8:03 am
Iran disputes cap on heavy water under nuclear deal
Tehran argues it should be allowed to hold more than the 130-ton limit as it searches for buyers for the excess material
By TOI staff and AFP
A still from a video threatening Hezbollah attacks on sensitive Israeli sites. (screen capture: alahednews.com)
March 3, 2017, 1:56 pm
Hezbollah-linked video threatens attacks on 9 Israeli nuclear, chemical sites
Propaganda clip includes pictures and details of the sensitive facilities
By Dov Lieber
Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, speaks in Tehran, Iran, on July 15, 2015. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 25, 2017, 11:38 am
Iran requests 950 tons of uranium from Kazakhstan
Tehran says it needs the material to help develop its civil reactor program
By AFP
Hillel Neuer
June 7, 2016, 1:31 pm
Hillel Neuer
A pilot reminisces
Watch the video, read the transcript of why the raid on Iraq’s nuclear reactor 35 years ago was worth the risk
September 8, 2002 photo showing a partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
April 28, 2016, 7:43 pm
Israel nuclear reactor defects spark safety concerns
Calls for new safeguards at aging atomic research center after report uncovers 1,537 flaws at aluminum core
By Joe Dyke
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