Rosatom Director-General Alexey Likhachov yesterday visited the construction site of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter), which the Russian state nuclear corporation said has now entered the "full-scale practical implementation phase". Rosatom also announced that it has sent the latest batch of six trailers with high-current busbars for the power supply systems of Iter's superconducting magnet. World-nuclear-news.org Iran is continuing to implement its nuclear-related commitments, but the continuation and further development of North Korea's nuclear program are a cause for "grave concern", International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano told the agency's board of governors yesterday. World-nuclear-news.org The China Daily said Tuesday that China National Nuclear Power Company Ltd. (CNNP) would establish a new company based in the province of Hebei that would work towards development of a traveling-wave reactor (TWR) which can theoretically operate for decades using a single fuel load of depleted uranium-238. Nuclearstreet.com North Korea’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear tests indicate that the nation’s nuclear-arms program is rapidly advancing, nearing the point at which Kim Jong Un can credibly claim to possess the means of nuking the United States. But they also demonstrate something else: No matter how many sanctions you impose, no matter how much you threaten fearsome displays of military power, it is very hard to convince a country to abandon the pursuit of nuclear weapons—especially when that country has progressed far enough to acquire those weapons, like North Korea has. Theatlantic.com
