India Enriched Uranium

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  From Cold Siberia, Uranium Fuel Comes For Kudankulam Atomic Plants

  Frozen Siberia -- where temperatures reach minus 60 degrees Celsius in winters -- is the unlikely source of the enriched uranium that fuels the twin mega reactors at Kudankulam. Tons of uranium is processed in Russian Siberia and then taken 5,000 kilometres away to Tamil Nadu, where it helps power homes

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  Pakistan May Be Building New Nuclear Plant: Analysts

  Pakistan, estimated to have the world's fastest-growing nuclear stockpile, could be building a new uranium enrichment complex according to commercial satellite imagery analysed by Western defence experts.

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  'India's Nuclear Programme One of the Largest in Developing Nations': US Report

  Stating that India has "one of the largest nuclear power programmes" among developing nations, a US-based think-tank has said that by the end of 2014 India had enough weapon-grade plutonium to possess an estimated stock of atomic weapons in the range of 75-125.

• Uranium fuel fully loaded in Kudankulam, reactor safe, says expert

  Even as anti-nuclear activists attempted to lay a siege on the atomic reactor at Kudankulam. India's nuclear energy utility, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) confirmed to NDTV that the first unit has been fully loaded with the requisite enriched uranium fuel and it is fully safe.

• Fuel loading begins in Kudankulam Nuclear plant

  India's atomic energy regulator on Friday said it has given its nod to Nuclear Power Corporation Ltd (NPCIL) to load enriched uranium fuel rods in the first reactor at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP).

• Kudankulam row: Police fire teargas shells at protesters

  With enriched uranium fuel set to be loaded in the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu, protests against the controversial project have once again intensified. The police fired teargas shells today to disperse villagers gathered on the sea shore around half a km away from the plant.

• Kudankulam protests: Villagers hold huge rally amid tight security

  With enriched uranium fuel set to be loaded in the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu, protests against the controversial project were intensified again on Sunday. An uneasy calm prevailed at the nuclear plant with anti-nuclear protesters bracing for a showdown with authorities.

• Iran denies secret uranium enrichment site

  Iran today denied claims by opposition groups that it was secretly building a new uranium enrichment site deep in the mountains northwest of the capital."We have no such installation that enriches uranium and if they (opposition groups) are aware of such a development, they should tell us. We will thank them," the country's atomic chief Ali Akbar S...

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  Iran a nuclear state now, declares Ahmadinejad

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Thursday that the Islamic republic has produced its first package of highly enriched uranium just two days after beginning the process.

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  N Korea vows to weaponise all plutonium

  North Korea on Saturday threatened it would weaponise all of its plutonium and start enriching uranium in response to UNSC sanctions.

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  Pak exchanged N-tech for N Korean missiles: US

  North Korea received designs for uranium enrichment centrifuges from Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan.