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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

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

This photo taken on September 8, 2002, shows 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

April 26, 2016, 8:47 pm

Shut Dimona nuclear reactor, urges founding scientist

Aging facility ‘may be world’s oldest reactor,’ says Uzi Even, after 1,537 defects found at aluminum core; says Israel couldn’t build new one without international help

By TOI staff