Nuclear News Roundup Oct 04, 2016

China apprehends that India will deploy the 36 nuclear-capable Rafale fighter jets to be acquired from France in the border regions of China and Pakistan to enhance its deterrence capability, a media report here said.  economictimes.indiatimes.com

Federal regulators say they’ve found there was a “substantial potential” for an accident that could have injured workers at the Westinghouse nuclear fuel plant near Columbia. insurancejournal.com

U.K. Royal Navy officers returning from a three-month patrol on a nuclear submarine have been ordered to turn themselves in after devastating a bar and cinema in a drunken rampage. rt.com

Russian and Chinese presence in Latin America has recently increased, accompanied by a notable Iranian interest. Over the past few months, Iran has been trying to earn more military and economic gains from the continent located in the western hemisphere. Iran’s interest in countries abroad is not recent, but what is very new is its pursuit after nuclear manufactures. Latin American affairs experts have gone as far as labeling the case of the continent as that of a Trojan horse staged by Russians, Chinese and Iranians and placed at the United States’ proximity english.aawsat.com

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