Not so much in the presentations given in the morning sessions of the International Nuclear Technology Conference in Berlin May 15, but more, and even more so, in private discussions, the greatest astonishment over the German exit from nuclear power was voiced.

Russia's Vice Premier Rogozin has proposed an agency for the Strategic Defense of the Earth that he said would be like a "space IAEA," reported Izvestia.ru, April 11.

Demonstrations continued through Bulgaria on Sunday, March 3, with 50,000 demonstrating in Varna, and thousands more in Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, Blagoevgrad, Ruse, and Sliven. According to Reuters, the demonstrators are not unified among themselves or behind any of the parties.

Investigative journalist Robert Parry, founder of Consortium News, rips apart the Washington Post for spreading a new round of lies that hype the Iran "nuclear bomb" threat. In a Feb. 15 article, Parry identifies that the source of a Feb. 14 front-page Post article by Joby Warrick is the "discredited nuclear expert David Albright, who famously gave cover for George W.

South Korea's National Fusion Research Institute (NRFI) is developing a conceptual design for its K-DEMO fusion machine, which will be its last step before construction of a commercial magnetic fusion power plant.

The outrageous year-long drive by the Obama Administration to cripple the American magnetic fusion energy research program, and now also to slow down the laser fusion program, has raised some hackles on Capitol Hill.

On March 18.

Biofuels cannot possibly represent a solution to Mexico's energy problems, says Dr. José Ricardo Gómez Romero, a professor in the Dept. of Basic Sciences and Engineering at the Iztapalapa campus of Mexico's Autonomous Metropolitan University. Instead, he recommends the country direct its research efforts to nuclear energy and forget about biofuels altogether.

During this past, first full work-week of 2013 in Russia, turbulence around Moscow's economic policies flared with the publication of an article in the liberal financial daily Vedomosti of Jan.

South Korea's National Fusion Research Institute (NRFI) is developing a conceptual design for its K-DEMO fusion machine, which will be its last step before construction of a commercial magnetic fusion power plant.