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Many African countries are in the grip of a nuclear fad. They believe nuclear energy will bring with it an international currency of prestige.

With a federal promise to take highly radioactive spent fuel from nuclear plants still unfulfilled, closed reactors are dipping into funds set aside for their eventual dismantling to build waste storage on-site, raising questions about whether there will be enough money when the time comes.

Mysterious, seemingly coordinated, drones have appeared in the past month over a number of nuclear power stations in France. We don’t know what these flights are for or who is behind them. But perhaps the most crucial question they raise is whether this now widespread technology poses a threat to nuclear facilities.

A fact-finding team has slammed Indian administration in the state of Tamil Nadu for manhandling peaceful anti-nuclear protesters at Idinthakarai.

Iran’s atomic energy chief on Monday claimed that power lines to the underground Fordow nuclear facility were cut via explosives last month before an International Atomic Energy Agency inspection, saying that “terrorists and saboteurs” may have infiltrated the agency.

A Vermont judge rules against a preliminary injunction that would allow Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station to continue operating after March 2012.

Japanese authorities warned on Sunday that the Fukushima Daiichi No. 3 Reactor could explode.