The United Nations atomic watchdog today approved an agreement to extend nuclear safeguards over India’s civilian nuclear reactors.

The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog announced today that he is sending a team to visit Syria this month after expressing regret that his agency had not received information sooner alleging that a Syrian installation destroyed by Israel last year was a nuclear reactor.

A global effort to remove dangerous spent fuel and decommission a Soviet-designed nuclear reactor in Serbia has cleared another major funding hurdle as part of a United Nations-backed initiative to close down potential sources of terrorism and proliferation.

A team of experts from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found “no evidence” of threats to sensitive nuclear areas at a South African nuclear facility which was trespassed late last year.