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As Russia punctuates its mounting losses in Ukraine with overt threats and private deliberations about the possible use of nuclear weapons and “dirty bombs,” Western leaders are being forced to grapple with whether Moscow is planning a dramatic escalation on the battlefield - a development that would leave the United States and NATO with a limited set of options to respond.

"I do believe that such a threat really exists and we have to take it into account," Ukrainian General Oleksandr Syrskiy said.

According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission a "dirty bomb" is a device that "combines a conventional explosive, such as dynamite, with radioactive material."

"Theres no safe place, even relatively safe place," one expert told Newsweek.

"During the Cuban Missile Crisis, these were much higher yield strategic weapons," one expert told Newsweek.

The GRAs presented their research to a diverse audience including technical and policy experts from national laboratories, government agencies, and civil society.

Work on China’s nuclear power plants started picking up again about a year after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. But the meltdown in March 2011 was still fresh on the minds of four retired cadres in Anhui Province’s Wangjiang County.They filed a petition opposing the Pengze nuclear power project in neighboring Jiangxi province, eventually winning local government support.

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) has released a white paper detailing the key role nuclear power can play as a clean energy resource and the role state regulators can play to support the continued viability of nuclear generation.

Civil appeal to Japan over nuclear dump fear; Nauru will go to the polls next month; and Pro-independence camp in New Caledonia strengthened by Pacific Awakening

The three Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – welcome this Security Council meeting to address the unprecedented nuclear risk (...) [Voltaire Network]