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...owns and operates five other nuclear plants. It also owns and operates five more nuclear plants in the northeast including Pilgrim Station south of Boston. The northeast headquarters is in White Plains, New York.Zamore also discounted nuclear energy’s role in decreasing fossil fuel pollution because uranium enrichment involves release of carbon dioxide. Scientific studies of nuclear fuel cycle carbon dioxide emissions show that they are between 0.5 percent and 4 percent of equivalent coal-fired emissions. So the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity clearly helps reduce the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...
...think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?" MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, rejecting an E.U. offer to give his country nonmilitary nuclear technology, including a reactor, in exchange for halting uranium enrichment...
...before they could arrive, the secret negotiations were thrown in jeopardy when Italian authorities, acting on information from U.S. officials, seized the BBC China cargo ship in the Mediterranean carrying thousands of components for Libya's illicit uranium-enrichment facility. As only a handful of top U.S., British and Libyan officials knew about the secret talks, the discovery provided the public with smoking gun proof of Libya's covert nuclear program. According to Seif al Islam, MI6 officers immediately flew from London to Tripoli to assure the Libyans that the incident need not affect the secret disarmament plans. The seizure...
...confrontation. The U.S. has largely ruled out direct engagement with Tehran, choosing instead to threaten Iran with action by the U.N. Security Council if the regime refuses to abandon its suspect nuclear activities. The Iranians, meanwhile, have repeatedly dismissed the Security Council and insisted on their right to enrich uranium, which can be used for peaceful purposes but is also the first step on the path to the Bomb. The U.S. says Tehran's obstinacy is reason to take punitive steps against Iran. But with the two sides slouching toward a showdown, a growing chorus of foreign-policy mandarins from...
...July 2003, with the President calling him "a good man" he had known for a long time. That was just in time for a barrage of questions about the President's State of the Union reference to British intelligence that Saddam Hussein had "recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa...