India, Brazil, South Africa summit discusses nuclear energy

The joint declaration of the India, Brazil and South Africa (ibsa) summit held on September 13, 2006, in Brasilia underscores the importance of the peaceful use of nuclear energy. During talks with India's prime minister Manmohan Singh, Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva indicated that Brazil would be willing to cooperate on fuel supplies as well as technology.

Incorrigible!

the accident-prone nuclear industry of Japan received yet another jolt when a fire and explosion hit a nuclear-waste reprocessing plant resulting in a low-level radiation leak. Inadequate action by the government to contain the fire, which was not extinguished properly, led to an explosion 10 hours later at the Tokaimura plant, 160 km northeast of Tokyo.