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Ill. nuclear reactor loses power, venting steam (AP)

FILE - In this March 16, 2011 photo, steam escapes from Exelon Corp.'s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill. A nuclear reactor the plant shut down Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators. (AP Photo/Robert Ray, File)AP – A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators.


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UN nuclear team arrives in Iran (AP)

Herman Nackaerts of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, the chief agency official in charge of the Iran file, prepares for his flight to Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012.  The U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on its mission to Tehran on Saturday, saying that any progress on the issue of alleged clandestine nuclear weapons work by Iran would be significant. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP – A U.N. nuclear team arrived in Tehran early Sunday for a mission expected to focus on Iran’s alleged attempt to develop nuclear weapons.


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Iran says CIA behind nuclear scientist’s killing (AP)

Beside a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, mourners carry a flag draped coffin of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, who was killed in a brazen daylight assassination when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car Wednesday, in his funeral ceremony, on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in Tehran, Iran. Thousands of mourners chanted 'Death to Israel' and 'Death to America' on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Iranian Students News Agency, Mehdi Ghasemi)AP – Iran said Saturday it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist this week in Tehran, state media reported.


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Blast kills Iran nuclear expert amid `covert war’ (AP)

In this photo provided by the semi-official Fars News Agency, people gather around a car as it is removed by a mobile crane in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two people on Wednesday, a semiofficial news agency reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Meghdad Madadi)AP – It seemed a clockwork killing: Motorcycle riders flashed by and attached a magnetic bomb onto a car carrying a nuclear scientist working at Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility. By the time the blast tore apart the silver Peugeot, the bike was blocks away, weaving through Tehran traffic after what Iran calls the latest strike in an escalating covert war.


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Bomb kills Iranian nuclear expert (AP)

In this photo provided by the semi-official Fars News Agency, people gather around a car as it is removed by a mobile crane in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two people on Wednesday, a semiofficial news agency reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Meghdad Madadi)AP – Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and his driver Wednesday, reports said. The slayings suggest a widening covert effort to set back Iran’s atomic program.


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Japan plans to scrap nuclear plants after 40 years (AP)

CORRECTS DATE WHEN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TO JAN. 6, 2012 - FILE - This Nov. 12, 2011 photo shows a view of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Japan. Japan said Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 it will soon require atomic reactors to be shut down after 40 years of use to improve safety following the nuclear crisis set off by the March 11, 2011 tsunami. Concern about aging reactors has been growing because the three units at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant that went into meltdown following the tsunami were built starting in 1967. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)AP – Japan says it will soon require atomic reactors to be shut down after 40 years of use to improve safety following the nuclear crisis set off by last year’s tsunami.


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SKorea president open to NKorea nuclear talks (AP)

North Koreans bow in front of a portrait of the late leader Kim Jong Il outside a stadium in Pyongyang as people paid respects to him on New Year's Day Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. (AP Photo)AP – South Korea’s president opened the door Monday to possible nuclear talks with North Korea and warned the neighboring country to avoid any provocations, saying the Korean peninsula is at a crucial turning point.


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