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April 18, 2026 8:10 AM

US to recover uranium from Iran at a ‘leisurely pace’, says Trump

President Donald Trump told Reuters on Friday that the U.S. will work with Iran to recover its enriched uranium and bring it back to the United States. "We're going to get it together. We're going to go in with Iran, at a nice leisurely pace, and go down and start excavating with big machinery... We'll bring it back to the United States," Trump said during a phone interview. He referred to "nuclear dust" and added that it would be retrieved "very soon." Iran denied agreeing to transfer its en...

April 8, 2026 10:15 AM

Trump says US won ‘total and complete victory’ after ceasefire deal with Iran, AFP reports

U.S. President Donald Trump told AFP on Tuesday that the United States had won a "total and complete victory" after agreeing to a two-week ceasefire deal with Iran. "Total and complete victory. 100 percent. No question about it," Trump told AFP in the brief call when asked if he was claiming victory with the ceasefire. Trump said the U.S. has received a 10-point proposal from Iran, which he called a "workable basis ‌on ⁠which to negotiate." But when asked about his original threats to ...

March 2, 2026 7:26 PM

India, Canada sign $2.6 bn uranium deal, aim to finalise trade pact in 2026

India and Canada took a major step forward in their relationship on Monday by signing a landmark uranium supply agreement worth $2.6 billion. The agreement was signed during talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney at Hyderabad House in the national capital. The uranium deal will help India secure a long-term supply of fuel for its civil nuclear energy programme. Both leaders said the agreement would strengthen cooperation in clean and reliable energ...

August 6, 2025 11:35 AM

Govt denies reports of private entities mining atomic minerals offshore

The Ministry of Mines has categorically refuted recent media reports suggesting that private companies have been allowed to explore and mine atomic minerals such as uranium and thorium in India’s offshore regions. Terming the reports as “misleading and factually incorrect,” the Ministry clarified that no such permissions have been granted. The clarification comes in the wake of speculation following the notification of the Offshore Areas Atomic Minerals Operating Rights Rules, 2025. Accor...

June 27, 2025 9:56 AM

No known intelligence that Iran moved uranium, US defence chief says

U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said he was unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved any of its highly enriched uranium to shield it from U.S. strikes, amid continuing questions about the state of Iran's nuclear program. U.S. military bombers carried out strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities early Sunday local time using more than a dozen 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs. The results of the strikes are being closely watched to see how far they may have s...

January 13, 2025 3:30 PM

Saudi Arabia plans to enrich and sell uranium, energy minister says

Saudi Arabia plans to monetize all minerals, including by selling uranium, Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Monday. "We will enrich it and we will sell it and we will do a 'yellowcake,'" Prince Abdulaziz told a conference in Dhahran, referring to a powdered concentrate of the mineral used to prepare uranium fuel for nuclear reactors. It requires safe handling although it poses few radiation risks. Saudi Arabia has a nascent nuclear programme that it wants to expand to ...

September 13, 2024 12:53 PM

North Korea shows first photos of banned uranium enrichment site

North Korea for the first time showed images of the centrifuges that produce fuel for its nuclear bombs on Friday, as leader Kim Jong Un visited a uranium enrichment facility and called for more weapons-grade material to boost the arsenal. The state media report on Kim's visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute and a production base for weapon-grade nuclear materials was accompanied by the first photos of the centrifuges, providing a rare look inside North Korea's nuclear programme, which is bann...