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A week after their broken-down negotiations spilled into the public, Google and Roku still haven’t been able to reach a deal to renew YouTube TV’s presence on the huge streaming platform. But Google has come up with something of a workaround in the meantime: it’s going to let people access YouTube TV directly from the …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech in Pyongyang on April 8. On Sunday, the North Korean government said President Biden made a “big blunder” last week when he called North Korea and Iran’s nuclear programs a security threat. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP hide caption toggle caption Korean Central …

One of India’s largest commercial and research nuclear reactor facilities lies just south of Arunkumar Seshadri’s hometown of Chennai, India. It was there, during a high school field trip, that the seeds of his interest in nuclear power were planted. “We learned the basic outline of how a reactor functions,” recalls Seshadri, a fifth-year doctoral …

A nuclear technology company and a medical isotopes company have merged. In fact, they’ve kind of re-merged, since they were founded by the same man, Greg Piefer. But there’s a wider story here of the maturing of the fusion energy industry and the mission of one man to deliver a socially game-changing energy technology via a development …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Monday blamed Israel for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged the centrifuges it uses to enrich uranium there, warning that it would avenge the assault. The comments by Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh represent the first official accusation leveled against Israel for …

Iranian officials on Sunday confirmed an “incident” at Natanz, an underground facility where uranium enrichment takes place. “Fortunately, the incident did not cause any human injuries or leaks,” said Behrouz Kamalvand, a spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI). “The causes of the accident are under investigation and further information will be announced later.” AEOI …

Iran announced on Saturday that it has started up advanced IR-6 and IR-5 centrifuges that enrich uranium more quickly, in a new breach of its undertakings under the troubled 2015 nuclear agreement. It also said it has begun mechanical tests on an even faster nuclear centrifuge: The output of Iran’s IR-9 centrifuge, when operational, would …

Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of breaking a post-cold war policy to reduce the size of Britain’s nuclear stockpile for no obvious “strategic purposes” in a Commons debate on the integrated review of defence and foreign policy. The Labour leader told MPs that government plans to lift the Trident warhead cap by over 40% …

CLOSE The Biden administration said Thursday it’s ready to join talks with Iran and world powers to discuss a return to the 2015 nuclear deal, in a sharp repudiation of former President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” that sought to isolate the Islamic Republic. (Feb. 18) AP Domestic Iran’s top diplomat insisted Sunday the United States must …

Nuclear verdicts are a hot topic of discussion across our industry. This is no longer some other claims organization’s problem or an issue only arising in transportation-related claims. Claims leaders are acknowledging the risk these verdicts pose to their business and looking for solid and actionable mitigation tactics. This is an issue of such relevance, …