![]() NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover is a scientific and engineering triumph. Talks between Iran and the United States and western European nations have not made any progress. ![]() Despite the renewed effort to convince Iran to stop its uranium enrichment effort, the country is pressing ahead with it. Senate approved a measure expanding the economic sanctions that have reduced Iran's export earnings from oil production. Since 2011, economic sanctions have reduced Iran's oil exports by 40 percent, according to the U.S. In July, western powers enacted new sanctions on Iran over its uranium enrichment program. The year also started with another bang, and not the good kind, as new attacks on nuclear scientists in Iran brought death by car bombs. Iran continues its uranium enrichment efforts His erratic tenure at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cast doubt on its effectiveness and tarnished its reputation as one of the best places to work in the federal government. In the United States, while the first new nuclear reactor licenses in three decades were issued to four reactors, the regulatory agency that approved them had a management meltdown that resulted in the noisy departure of Gregory Jazcko, its presidentially appointed chairman. (See more below on Japan's mighty mission at Fukushima.) Japan's Fukushima crisis continues to dominate any list of the top ten nuclear energy issues for the year. On a global scale the nuclear industry had its share of pluses and minuses in 2012.
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