Iran's payments to Russia for building its Bushehr nuclear power station are not sufficient to speed up work on the plant, the project contractor Atomstroyexport told the Iranian official IRNA news agency in Moscow on Saturday, April 21.

Prominent environmentalist, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and paediatrician Dr Helen Caldicott says the health risks posed by global warming and nuclear power are worse than those of smoking. She says global warming and nuclear power plants will increase the spread of disease.

Enticed by the gleam of government subsidies, many companies are rushing to invest in nuclear power, expecting that new technology and safer reactors will make them as good an investment as other types of power plants.

Limited supplies of fuel for nuclear power plants may thwart the renewed and growing interest in nuclear energy in the United States and other nations, says an MIT expert on the industry.