Uranium

Russia slams UK move to send ammunition with depleted uranium to Ukraine

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the British decision left fewer and fewer steps before a potential "nuclear collision" between Russia and the West

Missing uranium in Libya recovered 5 km away from original site

General Khaled al-Mahjoub, commander of eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar's communications division, said on his Facebook page that the containers of uranium had been recovered 'barely five kilometres' from where they had been stored in the Sabha area of southern Libya

'Ten drums' of natural uranium missing from Libyan site, says UN nuclear watchdog

International Atomic Energy Agency would carry out 'further activities' to determine the circumstances of the uranium's removal from the site, which it did not name, and where it is now

UN nuclear chief in Iran after near weapons-grade uranium find

The visit by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency comes with the Vienna-based organisation seeking to get Iran to increase cooperation over its nuclear activities.

Is Iran close to building a nuclear bomb?

The UN regulators recently found uranium particles enriched to 83.7 per cent purity — very close to weapons grade — at Iran’s Fordow site. While Tehran played down this development, a US official stated that the country could now produce ‘one bomb’s worth of fissile material’ in about 12 days

Nuclear watchdog IAEA team visits Iran to resolve ambiguities on Uranium enrichment activities

The visit comes after a report by Bloomberg News last week, strongly denied by Tehran, that its nuclear scientists have enriched uranium to 84 per cent purity, close to the 90 per cent threshold required to produce an atomic bomb

Nuclear inspectors in Iran find uranium enriched to 84% purity: Reports

Meanwhile, Iran has denied that it has intentionally enriched uranium to a purity of 84 per cent, just below the level needed to develop nuclear weapons

Iran starts production at new centrifuge-parts workshop at Natanz, says IAEA

The new workshop replaces a nuclear facility in Karaj, near Tehran, after an attack there last year, which Iran said was an act of sabotage

Oil prices jump over Kazakhstan unrest, while uranium market less affected

The country is the largest oil producer in central Asia with a twelfth of the world's proven reserves and produced around 1.8 million barrels a day in 2020

North Korea expanding nuclear arsenal, Yongbyon reactor restarted, says UN report

Since early July, there have been signs, including the discharge of cooling water, consistent with the operation of the reactor, as per the annual report by IAEA