The government has sought a reckoning, by sacking officials in charge of nuclear safety.
State help will be limited to reforming the lengthy licensing process, streamlining the planning system and levying a charge on nuclear operators to pay for decommissioning and waste storage.
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Only a small part of the armed forces chiefly the modest number of professionals serving in Central Asia or in special units near Moscow, or in charge of nuclear weapons still has any real military role.
Such people might include Goshi Hosono, Mr Kan's 39-year-old Mr Fix-it who this week was appointed minister in charge of the nuclear mess.
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The prime minister then held talks with the minister of economy, the minister in charge of the nuclear accident and the chief cabinet secretary, before making the announcement.
Officials said that they saw little need to hurry what was a sensitive and complex process because there was a de facto command authority in place, with the prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, in charge of the nuclear trigger.
International powers suspect Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons - a charge Iran strongly denies.
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Israel, along with Western and other powers, has accused Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.
Iran's nuclear programme has roused concern among major powers that Tehran wants to build nuclear weapons - a charge Iran strongly denies.
The Obama administration and United Nations are closely scrutinizing whether Pyongyang and Tehran may be cooperating in developing nuclear weapons, a charge the countries deny.
It arrives as an international spotlight falls on Iran for what the U.S., Europe and Israel allege is its pursuit of nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.
India appeared at the end of December to join U.S. efforts to stifle trade with Iran, which the U.S., European Union and other international governments accuse of pursuing nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.
The Thursday debate may end up blunting Mr. Paul's charge due to an extended exchange over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Writing in Sunday's New York Times, Joseph Wilson, America's ambassador to Gabon during the mid-1990s, said that a charge by Mr Bush that Saddam Hussein sought uranium for nuclear warheads from Africa (which Mr Bush sourced to a British statement) appeared to be baseless.
U.S. officials and their allies accuse Iran of operating an illicit nuclear enrichment program to develop atomic weapons, a charge Iran denies.
The frustration with the delay was evident Thursday when the Marine commander in charge of the relief effort insisted the show would go on, nuclear crisis or not.
The West fears that Iran is using its nuclear drive to try to build atomic weapons, a charge Tehran has consistently denied, saying it is aimed at generating electricity.
The company announced Monday that it has abandoned plans to spin off its six nuclear power facilities into a separate entity and will take a charge of 40 to 45 cents per share charge because of the decision.
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U.S. officials familiar with reports of the White House hacking incident said it took place earlier this month and involved unidentified hackers, believed to have used computer servers in China, who accessed the computer network used by the White House Military Office (WHMO), the president's military office in charge of some of the government's most sensitive communications, including strategic nuclear commands.
And it has told the Treasury to see Hinckley as part of a long-running programme, so that if Hinkley goes ahead, it would be followed by a new nuclear plant at Sizewell, for which - having learned from Hinkley - EDF would charge a lower IRR.
One of them, Rear Admiral Simon Lister, is in charge of this complex programme, and as he took me round the cramped corridors, past the nuclear reactor and down into the sweaty machine rooms, he acknowledged this was a prototype and there was always going to be some "teething" issues.
Russian experts, such as Sergei Vladislavovich Drazdov, a colonel in the Russian border militia in charge of liaison with the Chinese military, say Siberia cannot be protected by conventional means--but cite nuclear weapons as a reason there will be no war.
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