Greenpeace activists delayed a train carrying 600 tons of uranium hexafluoride, a radioactive byproduct. Britta Radike for Greenpeace Greenpeace activists have blocked a train in Germany carrying a shipment of radioactive waste destined for Russia, the environmental organization said Monday. German exports of depleted uranium hexafluoride, a byproduct of uranium enrichment, resumed to Russia […]
News Archive
Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
Our news database is categorized by country, state/province, and industry. This collection of articles is constantly being updated with the most recent global news on fluoride-related issues and events.
Opinion: Washington must revoke sanctions waiver after latest nuclear violation
The “maximum pressure” policy against the Islamic Republic of Iran is one-year old. So too, ironically, is the Trump administration’s policy of providing sanctions waivers for select Iranian nuclear projects permitted by the 2015 nuclear deal. The most troublesome of these waivers — as we have previously written — is for an underground nuclear bunker […]
Rosatom issues a public response to Bellona’s concerns over depleted uranium imports
Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has publically responded to criticism from Bellona over the company’s renewed policy of importing uranium hexafluoride, a byproduct of nuclear fuel fabrication, from an enrichment facility located in Germany. In remarks published Monday by the RIA Novosti Russian newswire, the company insisted that the substance, which many environmentalists consider to […]
Air Force Updates Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bombs Amid New Iranian Nuclear Posturing
The U.S. Air Force is continuing to update its stockpile of 30,000-pound class Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker busters, or MOPs, and bring older MOPs up to the latest standard, also known as the GBU-57E/B. This comes as Iran has announced that it will begin injecting uranium hexafluoride gas into centrifuges at its underground nuclear facility […]
AP Explains: Iran reopens uranium plant in its latest gamble
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – says it has restarted production at a “major” uranium facility involved in its nuclear program, though it still pledges to follow the terms of the country’s landmark atomic deal now under threat after President Donald Trump pulled America out of the accord. Iranian comments about the Isfahan plant, which produces material […]
Russia resumes importing depleted uranium from Germany, breaching old promises
Environmental groups have voiced concern that Russia is again accepting shipments of uranium tails, a byproduct formed when uranium is enriched, from a German nuclear fuel firm, reigniting a debate over whether the substance meets the definition of nuclear waste. The shipments of the toxic compound – also called uranium hexafluoride – were halted in […]
Russia Is Importing Toxic Nuclear Waste From Germany, Greenpeace Warns
A European uranium enrichment firm has resumed shipments of a highly toxic and radioactive waste product from Germany to Russia, Greenpeace Russia warned Wednesday. The enrichment firm Urenco and Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom halted the radioactive waste imports from Germany in 2009 over revelations that the waste was stored in the open. German media […]
Factbox: The atomic restrictions imposed by the Iran nuclear deal
(Reuters) – Iran has committed a further breach of its nuclear deal with major powers by enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges, and plans to install more of those advanced machines than previously announced, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report showed on Thursday. Below are some of the key restrictions imposed by the nuclear deal, the Joint […]
Kazatomprom signs agreement with Brazil’s INB (Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil)
KAZINFORM JSC National Atomic Company «Kazatomprom» («Kazatomprom» or «the Company») announces today that it has signed a commercial agreement to supply natural uranium to the Brazilian state company, Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB), a press-release from Kazatomprom reads. Kazatomprom was successful in winning INB’s commercial competition to supply natural uranium hexafluoride for the needs of […]
Iran ratchets up pressure ahead of weekend nuclear deadline
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian officials ratcheted up pressure Wednesday ahead of a weekend nuclear deadline for European nations to come up with a solution for Iran to sell its oil abroad in the aftermath of escalated U.S. sanctions. President Hassan Rouhani reiterated a threat that Tehran would take additional steps away from the 2015 nuclear accord […]