"This has been a dream of mine for 40 years, " says my shipmate Joachim Benemann, a nuclear scientist turned businessman from Germany.
Majid Jamali Fashi was convicted of the January 2010 killing of Massoud Ali Mohammadi, an Iranian university professor and a nuclear scientist.
As a recent inspection at the home of an Iraqi nuclear scientist demonstrated, and other sources confirm, material and documents are still being moved around in farcical shell games.
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In 2001 project officials selected Jay Kim, a Korean-American and former senior scientist of nuclear power plant design at Westinghouse, to approach U.S. developers.
Lee faced 58 felony charges that accused the scientist of illegally downloading nuclear secrets from secure Energy Department computers.
Richardson said he had been concerned about the treatment of the former scientist at the federal nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during more than nine months of solitary confinement.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The investigation into a top Pakistani scientist's leaks of nuclear secrets was sparked by information from U.S. intelligence, according to officials.
No scientist working on India's nuclear programme was under any illusion that bomb-making technology, once learned, could somehow be unlearned.
An Iraqi scientist associated with Saddam's nuclear programs surrendered to U.S. authorities in Baghdad on Thursday, U.S. defense officials said Friday.
Sir David King, Tony Blair's chief scientist, recently argued that one further generation of nuclear power stations is needed (in Britain at least) to buy time, in order to keep down emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, while new carbon-free non-nuclear technologies are developed.
But it seems unlikely that the scientist could have moved materials from Pakistan's heavily guarded nuclear plants without the knowledge, and perhaps the help, of senior military officers.
But the government's chief energy scientist, David MacKay, has warned that the UK would need to increase its nuclear fleet four-fold or its wind energy 20-fold to decarbonise heavy industry.
It's hoped the scientist, who was captured Thursday, will be able to provide information about Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
"This was a very serious incident because they penetrated the protected area, and that's when there was supposed to be an immediate security response, " said Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist with Global Security Program, a watchdog group that monitors the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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