Iranian parliament backs plan to end nuclear inspections and start enriching more uraniaum

Iranian parliament backs plan to end nuclear inspections and start enriching more uraniaum after assassination of chief scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Draft bill calls on government to end UN inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities Government has said it considers the proposal ‘neither necessary nor useful’ Fakhrizadeh was assassinated on a major road outside Tehran on Friday  … Read more

Iran parliament’s backs plan to end nuclear inspections and start enriching more uraniaum

Iran parliament’s backs plan to end nuclear inspections and start enriching more uraniaum after assassination of chief scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Draft bill calls on government to end UN inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities Government has said it considers the proposal ‘neither necessary nor useful’ Fakhrizadeh was assassinated on a major road outside Tehran on Friday  … Read more

Airstrike ‘kills Iranian commander’ days after ‘Israeli assassins took out country’s nuclear chief’

An air strike killed a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards along the Iraq-Syria border at the weekend, Iraqi security and local militia officials have confirmed.  A drone is said to have killed Muslim Shahdan, a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, in a targeted strike on his car, Iraqi security forces told Saudi-based … Read more

Iran nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh ‘killed using remote-control machine gun’

Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed using a remote controlled machine gun left inside a car which then blew up, sources within the country have claimed. Fakhrizadeh was shot at least three times by the gun, positioned in a Nissan pickup that was parked alongside the road he was travelling on, before it blew … Read more

Plea over 25,000 jobs at EDF’s Sizewell C nuclear plant

Firms lined up to work on EDF’s Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk say they need green light from Government by Christmas to protect 25,000 jobs By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:49 GMT, 28 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 November 2020 Firms lined up to work on EDF’s Sizewell C … Read more

Iranian nuclear scientist is ‘assassinated near Tehran’ reports in Iran claim 

Iranian nuclear scientist is ‘injured in attempted assassination near Tehran’ reports in Iran claim By Jemma Carr For Mailonline Published: 14:16 GMT, 27 November 2020 | Updated: 14:26 GMT, 27 November 2020 A nuclear scientist dubbed ‘father of the Iranian bomb’ has been injured in an assassination attempt, state-run media reports. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi – a … Read more

The £132bn bill to make our nuclear sites safe: Decommissioning will cost a fortune

The £132bn bill to make our nuclear sites safe: Decommissioning will cost a fortune and could take up to 120 years, report warns Committee said decommissioning was an ‘afterthought’ when industry started  Decades of poor record-keeping has left authorities knowing too little   Report into nuclear safety blames a ‘weak government oversight’   By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more

Critics warn Government’s nuclear power pledge lacks detail 

Nuclear plans are ‘a canvas half-painted’: Critics warn Government’s power stations pledge lacks detail By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 18 November 2020 | Updated: 22:22 GMT, 18 November 2020 Britain’s nuclear industry has welcomed a Government pledge to build new power stations but urged ministers to outline a more detailed … Read more

Saudi Arabia says it will develop nuclear weapons if Iran cannot be stopped from making one

Saudi Arabia could develop nuclear weapons if Iran becomes a nuclear power, the country’s foreign minister has warned.  Adel al-Jubeir said it is ‘definitely an option’ for the Middle-Eastern state to develop nuclear capabilities if its rival Iran could not be stopped from making one, according to reports. He reportedly told DPA news agency that … Read more

Trump talked out of launching missile strike on Iran’s main nuclear site by top advisers last week

Donald Trump was talked out of launching a missile strike on Iran’s main nuclear site by his top advisers last week who warned it could trigger a war President Trump asked senior advisers about taking action against Iran’s main nuclear site at a meeting last Thursday, the New York Times reported Monday  Four current and … Read more