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...fear - that Iran wants highly enriched uranium not so that it can develop nuclear power, but to build an atomic bomb. Suppose, moreover, that it manages to do so, and that there is no military intervention in Iran of the kind that Israel visited upon Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. What would happen next? Somehow or other, in all likelihood, others would seek to contain Iran, in the way that the Soviet Union was contained during the cold war. But if that was to be the fate of Iran, who would do the containing? To ask the question...
...military’s operations over the previous decades had left the Arsenal heavily contaminated with pollutants. At the time of the closure recommendation, the work to be done at the complex included cleaning the facilities and soil, decommissioning the remnants of a research reactor, and reclaiming portions of the Charles River...
...Further complicating the situation was the fact that the Army’s first research reactor had been built at the Arsenal in 1960. Though operations ceased a decade later, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) did not formally shut down the reactor until...
...France. Since nuclear power accounts for more than 75% of French electricity, a good chunk of that money is likely to go toward upgrading existing plants or building new ones. edf's dominant supplier: Areva, which has already picked up an order for a new-generation pressurized-water reactor to be built in the Normandy town of Flamanville from 2007. Lauvergeon and Areva are on a roll these days. Nuclear power, written off as dead throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world over the past two decades, is suddenly back in fashion. The public still shudders when...
...shop for nuclear energy, with revenues last year of $13.5 billion and almost a one-third share of the market. Unlike its key competitors, Westinghouse and General Electric, Areva spans all aspects of the business. It mines and enriches uranium ore to make nuclear fuel; it designs and constructs reactors and helps operate them; and it recycles the spent fuel and packages the remaining waste. An engineer by training, Lauvergeon worked as an aide to the late French President François Mitterrand before joining the Lazard investment bank. In the late 1990s, the government asked her to take over...