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The foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK have triggered a dispute resolution mechanism over the nuclear deal with Iran - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - following the Middle Eastern country's further step away from its commitments. Josep Borrell, EU foreign affairs chief and coordinator of the JCPOA joint commission, said he had received today a letter from the three ministers for resolution through the mechanism, as set out in paragraph 36 of the agreement.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 15 January 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/European-leaders-trigger-dispute-mechanism-of-Iran
Iran said yesterday it will ignore the limit on the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges agreed under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), thus withdrawing from the last operational restriction imposed by the 2015 deal. The statement, reported by the Mehr news agency, followed the US assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani last week.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 14 January 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Iran-scraps-limit-on-uranium-enrichment
Iran on 5 January took the final step in reducing its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), removing the last operational restriction on the development of its nuclear programme.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 10 January 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiran-ends-commitments-under-jcpoa-but-continues-cooperation-with-iaea-7591483
Iran said yesterday it will ignore the limit on the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges agreed under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), thus withdrawing from the last operational restriction imposed by the 2015 deal. The statement, reported by the Mehr news agency, followed the US assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani last week.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 07 January 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Iran-scraps-limit-on-uranium-enrichment
TVEL has announced the suspension of its work to upgrade the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant because Iran fed uranium hexafluoride (UF6) into two gas centrifuge cascades located in the same room as the cascades meant to be reengineered for stable medical isotope production.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 07 December 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-suspends-Fordow-project-in-Iran
Iran should cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency to resolve outstanding issues, including the recent detection of natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at an undeclared location, Acting Director General Cornel Feruta told the IAEA Board of Governors yesterday. The IAEA and Iran are scheduled to meet next week in Tehran.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 23 November 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Acting-IAEA-head-urges-Iranian-cooperation
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said he is cancelling one of four sanctions waivers that had allowed foreign companies to work with Iran’s civilian nuclear programme without US penalties.
The waivers are among the last remaining components of the 2015 nuclear deal the Trump administration withdrew from last year.
Mr Pompeo said the waiver for Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment facility will be cancelled on 15 December. Iran recently announced it would resume uranium enrichment at the facility, which is built into a mountain.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 21 November 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-to-end-sanctions-waiver-on-fordow-uranium-enrichment-facility-11-3-2019
Iran has started construction of unit 2 of its nuclear power plant at Bushehr. A ceremony to mark the pouring of first concrete was held yesterday and was attended by the president of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, government officials and executives from Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Concrete-poured-for-Bushehr-unit-2
The USA will waive its sanctions on nuclear cooperation with Iran, allowing Russian, Chinese, and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear facilities, US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement on 31 October. However, Ortagus also said new sanctions had been placed on Iran's construction sector.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 November 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-to-renew-waivers-on-nuclear-cooperation-with-iran-7487605
A policy and market environment that unlocks the mitigation potential of nuclear power will enable countries to adopt more ambitious targets in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, a paper prepared by Hal Turton, an energy economist in the Department of Nuclear Energy at the International Atomic Energy Agency shows. The paper, Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Scenario Perspectives to 2050, was presented last week at the Vienna-based agency's first international conference on climate change and the role of nuclear power.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 17 October 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-untapped-potential-of-nuclear-under-the-Paris