A fire broke out Sunday at a Moscow nuclear research center that houses a nonoperational 60-year-old atomic reactor. A fire broke out Sunday at a Moscow nuclear research center that houses a nonoperational 60-year-old atomic reactor, an emergency official said. While Russia's nuclear...

Rosatom will begin preparatory work for construction of the Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant-2 this year, the Smolensk plant said in a statement citing Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko, Interfax reported Monday. "We will begin preparatory work for building the Smolensk NPP-2 in 2012, in order for the first replacement block...

....” Twelve managers had been ordered to repay 1 million rubles each, Dozhd reported, claiming a “little victory” for the station. Rogozin said he had ordered “mandatory coordination” for spending on corporate parties among the nuclear monopoly’s affiliates. 179742

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Prosecutors in Kyrgyzstan say seven people face charges over the import of contaminated radioactive coal from Kazakhstan. The prosecutor general's office said Tuesday that health and customs officers allowed the coal to be sent to schools, an orphanage and an old people's home. The case has caused a furor, with rival politicians accusing one another of benefiting financially from the deal. (AP)

Plans to transfer thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel from Chernobyl-type nuclear reactors to a new storage facility in Siberia have been attacked by environmentalists. Plans to transfer thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel from Chernobyl-type nuclear reactors to a new storage facility...

In the wake of growing tension around Iran's nuclear program, 2012 looks like it will be another challenging year for both the United States and Russia. Perhaps the most difficult and time-consuming question confronting Washington and Moscow today is how best to proceed...

... phobia within Russia. Putin was particularly angry over Konovalov's suggestion that the location of U.S. missile defense installations should not concern Russia's political and military leadership because they pose little, if any, threat to the country's nuclear deterrence capabilities. One day after Putin's meeting with journalists, Dmitry Rogozin, Putin's newly appointed deputy prime minister in charge of the defense industry, rushed to Putin's defense in an interview, also on Ekho Moskvy. Rogozin...

Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Azeri ambassador Sunday, accusing Azerbaijan of assisting Israeli intelligence in the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist last month. TEHRAN — Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Azeri ambassador Sunday, accusing Azerbaijan of assisting Israeli intelligence in the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist last month, Iran's Fars news agency...

... defense to cyber security, hoping to set the stage for a renewed arms control push once elections are over in both countries, the top U.S. arms negotiator said. Ellen Tauscher, undersecretary of state for arms control, said a year after the New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia that the United States was still committed to returning to the negotiating table to discuss cuts in strategic and tactical nuclear weapons. But with Europe working on a nuclear deterrence review, elections in Russia and...

A military attack on Iran would trigger a "chain reaction" that could destabilize the world, and new sanctions over the country's disputed nuclear program would "stifle" its economy, hurting its people. A military attack on Iran would trigger a "chain reaction" that could destabilize the world, and new sanctions over the country's disputed nuclear program would...

BRUSSELS — Russia would regard any military intervention linked to Iran's nuclear program as a threat to its own security, Moscow's departing ambassador to NATO warned on Friday. "Iran is our neighbor," Dmitry Rogozin told reporters in Brussels. "And if Iran is involved in any military action, it's a direct threat...

... deploy U.S. interceptor missiles in and around Europe in what Washington says is layered protection against missiles that could be fired by countries like Iran. Moscow says this could undermine its security if it becomes capable of neutralizing Russia's nuclear deterrent. Now an international commission that has been working on the matter for two years has designed a basic concept for cooperation with the help of military professionals from both sides. The new proposal by the Euro-Atlantic Security...

India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks as it modernizes its military to match China's. NEW DELHI — India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken...

Alstom said it won an order valued at about 380 million euros ($500 million) to equip Russian nuclear plants, as the French company pushes a business that Siemens abandoned last year as Germany exits atomic energy. Alstom will provide turbine equipment, and its order is part of a contract valued at more than 35 billion rubles ($1.2 billion) awarded...

... difficulties for beginning political negotiations," he said. Tensions have been rising in the Persian Gulf after the U.S. signed into law sanctions against Iranian oil exports late last year, in an attempt to put pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear program. European countries are expected to impose their own sanctions against Iranian oil next week, Reuters reported. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Monday that Russia would consider any military intervention aimed at dismantling...

...." The U.S. Treasury Department on Jan. 23 took steps to cut off Bank Tejarat from the international financial system for providing financial services to Iran's lenders and companies under international sanctions for involvement in the country's nuclear and missile proliferation. The move "will deepen Iran's financial isolation," David S. Cohen, treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement. European Union foreign ministers on Jan. 23 also agreed...

... father, Kim Jong Il, who died in December, agreed to the gas pipeline at a meeting in August with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev near the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude. Russia said the energy deal was part of efforts to win concessions on North Korea's nuclear weapons program. In an interview last week, South Korea's chief nuclear envoy said he is "optimistic" that inducements offered by the United States and his country will persuade the new North Korean leader to hold fresh talks aimed at...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. special envoy for North Korea will come to Russia on Tuesday for consultations on the North's nuclear program. The State Department said Friday that Glyn Davies will meet Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov and ambassador for six-nation talks Grigory Logvinov. North Korea withdrew from the six-nation talks in 2009. (AP)

Once as highly regarded as cosmonauts, ballerinas and nuclear scientists, Russian circus stars have wowed generations. Once as highly regarded as cosmonauts, ballerinas and nuclear scientists, Russian circus stars have wowed generations. But the lure of high-wire acts, slapstick clowns, lion tamers,...

... Barents Sea, slated for development by a consortium led by Gazprom, the head of the Russian gas export monopoly said Monday. "The Japanese market is the biggest LNG market in the world and considering the decision by the Japanese government to reduce nuclear power generation, the demand for LNG into Japan will only increase," Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller told reporters. "So of course LNG deliveries from the Shtokman field [to Japan] are being considered by the partners," Miller...