Sentences with phrase «russian nuclear sites»
Moscow may have allowed several North Korean nuclear researchers to work at Russian nuclear sites, including a scientist who is under United Nations Security Council sanctions.
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Why this matters: Code governing control systems at industrial sites has already been the target of attacks, and US officials recently warned Russian hackers are probing for security holes in software controlling critical infrastructure like nuclear facilities and dams.
The Israeli spook site Debka reports today that «Barack Obama's decision prompted Russian president Dmitry Medvedev's surprise comment Monday, Sept. 14, that his government no longer rules out further sanctions against Iran - although the Kremlin has always denied its cooperation with the US on the Iranian nuclear issue was contingent on the removal of the US missile shield plan.»
John Large, an independent nuclear engineer based in London who has inspected many Soviet plants, including Tomsk, says the fuel will be flown by the Russian military to Chelyabinsk - 65, the site of a serious accident in 1957.
In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).
In this issue: Church Rock Chapter Decries NRC Judge's Ruling; Environmental Education in Australia; Volcanoes of Kamchatka — Renewed Efforts to Protect Russian World Heritage Site; New Mexico Says No to High - Level Waste at WIPP; New Mexico - Texas... Nuclear Waste Connection?
Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such as Novaya Zemlya.
Lying far above the Arctic Circle, the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya is one of the most remote places on Earth, which is precisely why these mountainous, wind - swept islands were used as the Soviet Union's main nuclear weapons test site from 1955 to 1990.
This announcement follows the recent agreement between India and Russia to allot a second site for a Russian - built nuclear power plant in India.