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Two Reasons Not to Cheer Obama’s Nuclear Ambitions

By | 02.17.10 | 12:18 pm

Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic lists five reasons to celebrate President Obama’s renewed commitment to nuclear energy. Let’s take a look at numbers one and four:

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I’ve complained several times about the government making bets on funding business propositions, like electric cars, that have not yet proven

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Is the Vienna Deal Being Renegotiated?

By | 11.09.09 | 9:29 am

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week urged Iran to stop stalling and accept a proposal formally put forward in Vienna by the so-called P5+1 nations to enrich Iranian uranium in Europe to a form unsuitable for nuclear weapons. “We are not altering” the deal, she said. Well, More…

‘We Don’t Want Atom Bomb’

By | 11.04.09 | 9:50 am

Already circulating through the Twitterverse, thanks to @TehranBureau: this video, in which Iranian dissidents clearly chant that they don’t want an atom bomb (after the jump).

Iran Formally Seeks Changes to Uranium Deal

By | 10.29.09 | 11:37 am

As mentioned earlier this morning; now formally reported, per The Wall Street Journal:

Iran has formally asked for changes to an International Atomic Energy Agency proposal to ship nuclear fuel out of Iran for reprocessing abroad.

The response represents a setback in attempts by the international community to

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U.S., Iran Size Each Other Up at Vienna

By | 10.23.09 | 10:38 am

Today’s the deadline for Iran’s leadership to embrace or reject the deal its negotiators endorsed in Vienna to ship uranium out of the country for enrichment into fuel-producing-and-not-weapons-grade material. Whether that happens or not, Laura Rozen reports an interesting Vienna backstory:

Diplomatic sources tell POLITICO that among the

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Iran Takes the Nuke Deal?

By | 10.21.09 | 10:06 am

Breaking news from The Associated Press: the Iranians may in fact accept a crucial nuclear deal:

Iranian negotiators on Wednesday expressed support for a deal that — if accepted by their leaders — would delay Tehran’s ability to make nuclear weapons by sending most of its existing enriched uranium to

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Vienna Talks Test Obama Diplomacy

By | 10.20.09 | 2:22 pm

Seated across the table in Vienna from the United States and its allies, the Iranian regime is considering an ambitious diplomatic offer to ship its uranium out of the country, a move designed to tamp down years’ worth of nuclear tensions. It isn’t clear if the Iranians will take the More…

Nuclear Industry Donations Target Moderate Dems

By | 07.24.09 | 11:58 am

Nuclear power is courting some new friends as it pushes for government subsidies in the sweeping climate bill being debated in the Senate.

For the last decade, the biggest players in the nuclear industry lent most of their financial backing to Republican candidates and lawmakers, who have been the strongest More…