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Policy Forum Online: Obama and North Korea: The Road Ahead
‘Peter M. Beck, Professor at American University in Washington, D.C. and Yonsei University in Seoul, notes "several suggestions that would greatly increase the chances of successful negotiations" with the DPRK including insisting "that any deal reached between Pyongyang and Washington incorporates improved North-South relations... If the North follows through with its threat to close border crossings between the two Koreas, it would completely undo the rapprochement of the past decade. Washington should make it clear that this is unacceptable."’

YaleGobal Online: Burma’s Nuclear Temptation
‘Rich with uranium and desperate for control, the Burmese junta may find a nuclear option attractive’

World Nuclear News: Japan Steel Works to triple capacity
‘Japan Steel Works (JSW) has announced that it will triple its capacity for manufacturing heavy forged components for nuclear power plants by mid-2012.’

World Nuclear News: India outlines nuclear power ambitions
‘India has reaffirmed its commitment to thorium fuel cycle, proposing to construct a dozen indigenously-developed nuclear power reactors. These units will be supplemented by imported conventional reactors.’

AFP: EDF reveals $4.5-bln counter-bid for half of Constellation nuclear
‘French state-controlled electricity giant EDF said on Wednesday it was ready to pay 4.5 billion dollars (3.53 billion euros) for half of the nuclear activities of US group Constellation Energy.’

Caboodle.hu: Hungary's new nuclear waste dump receives first load
‘The first 16 barrels of low and medium radioactivity waste were deposited at Hungary's new nuclear waste facility at Bataapati (SW) on Tuesday.’

Times Union: Nuclear cleanup to cost billions
‘While it will cost taxpayers billions to clean out dangerous radioactive waste from a defunct nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, storing it there would cost billions more over the centuries - and risk contamination of Lake Erie.’

Gulf News: Abu Dhabi meet shows the way to diversify energy resources
‘The 14th ECSSR Energy Conference on Nuclear Energy in the Gulf Region, which concluded on November 26, discussed the relatively recent nuclear programmes in India, Pakistan, Iran and Israel, as well as future peaceful nuclear energy programmes in GCC countries.’