1. Over the same period, research on advanced nuclear reactors will be eliminated and one of the two uranium enrichment plants closed. 2. A day after a major radioactivity release from a uranium processing plant, Japanese officials moved Friday to reassure the public that the danger was over. 3. But a storage facility like the uranium processing plant does not possess the controls or safeguards that a nuclear reactor would. 4. So far, Iran does not have a uranium enrichment plant or plutonium reprocessing plant. 5. The DIA assessment said Iraq is planning to restart a uranium processing plant at a commercial phosphate mining facility that produces commercial fertilizer. 6. A German nuclear expert who is being sought for allegedly helping Iraq build a uranium enrichment plant, is hiding out in Brazil, Focus news magazine said Saturday. 7. A uranium enrichment plant built to fuel nuclear power and avoid sanctions would be closed at the end of March, the government decided Wednesday. 8. An Israeli businessman denied Thursday he planned to purchase a uranium plant from the Kazakstan government. 9. But Siemens calculated it would take at least four years to relicence and restart the uranium plant, and so decided to close it, Breyer said. |