Following decades of struggle, the Israel Atomic Energy Commission has agreed to a 78 million shekel ($22 million) compensation package for 168 state employees who developed cancer after working at Israel's nuclear reactor and associated research sites. Haaretz.com Australia has officially joined an international group focused on developing future nuclear energy systems. Smh.com.au Most Britons would not be happy living near the mini nuclear power stations that Rolls-Royce and several other international companies want to build in the UK, a survey has found. The government has promised the developers of small modular reactors a slice of a £250m funding pot in a race to position the UK as the place where the first generation of the power stations should be built. Theguardian.com Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war. A 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, he was a few hours into his shift as the duty officer at Serpukhov-15, the secret command center outside Moscow where the Soviet military monitored its early-warning satellites over the United States, when alarms went off. Nytimes.com
