IAEA chief: Iran Investigation at 'Dead End'

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9C7C6VG0&show_article=1

The International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Iran's nuclear program is at a dead end because Tehran is not cooperating, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Thursday in an unusually blunt expression of frustration four days before he leaves office.

Mohamed ElBaradei also warned that international confidence in Iran's assertions of purely peaceful intent shrank after its belated revelation of a previously secret nuclear facility. And he criticized Tehran for not accepting an internationally endorsed plan meant to delay its achieving the ability to make nuclear weapons.

Iran says it is enriching only to power a future network of nuclear reactors. But enrichment can also produce fissile warhead material. Iran continues enriching, despite three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions meant to make it freeze that activity and has built an enriched stockpile that could arm two nuclear warheads.

Obama to Shut Down Yucca Mountain

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/04/tracking-taxes-high-price-nuclear-waste/?test=latestnews

After 30 years, five presidents and $13 billion dollars, the Obama administration is pulling the plug on Yucca Mountain, the federal government's proposed storage facility for America's nuclear waste.

For a candidate who said he wanted to get politics out of science, critics find the president's decision hypocritical and shortsighted, at a time when nuclear energy is making a comeback.

This is what comes of programs that the government runs. Years of wasted money only to be shut down. Obviously, increasing relance of nuclear power is now no longer a viable option, which is probably how Obama wants it.

Iran Says Makes New Model of Nuclear Centrifuges

http://in.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idINLM24002120090922

Iran has built a new generation of centrifuges for enriching uranium and is testing them, the official news agency IRNA quoted its nuclear energy agency chief as saying on Tuesday.

"Iranian scientists have made a new generation of centrifuges that are currently undergoing necessary tests," Ali Akbar Salehi told a Tehran news conference as reported by IRNA.

"Chains of 10 centrifuges are now under test," he said, and the number in each chain "will be gradually increased."

Salehi did not say when the new model of centrifuge would be introduced to the production line in its Natanz enrichment plant but said it was stronger and faster than those now in operation.

Nuke Agency Says Iran Can Make Bomb

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AP714G0&show_article=1

Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead.

Wait, I thought Biden said Iran wasn't a threat?

Obama says Iran's energy concerns legitimate

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060200947_pf.html

"Oil reserves in Iran, according to its government, rank third largest in the world at approximately 136 billion barrels (21.6×109 m3) as of 2007, although it ranks second if Canadian reserves of non-conventional oil are excluded. This is roughly 10% of the world's total proven petroleum reserves. Iran is the world's fourth largest oil producer and is OPEC's second-largest producer after Saudi Arabia."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Iran

So they need nuclear power why?

Re: Nuclear Power's Safety

What are spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste:
http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/factsheets/doeymp0338.shtml

Yucca Mountain Underground Repository:
http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ym_repository/index.shtml

How it would be transported:
http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/factsheets/doeymp0500.shtml

New Hampshire's electrical generation mix is 46.3% nuclear:
http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/newsroom/photos/pdf/newhampshire.pdf

Three Mile Island and Chernobyl: What Went Wrong and Why Today’s Reactors Are Safe

http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm2367.cfm