Chile retains role
Chile has found the funds to remain part of the $184m Gemini partnership
US Star Wars test fails
(Updated 13 Oct)
Proliferation worries grow at US reactor
The US government breaks the boundaries between its civilian and military nuclear programmes
Mission to Saturn back on track
The Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and one of its moons, Titan, lifts off
India invests in fast-breeder reactor
The money will go on technology development and testing, materials science research, studies on the reprocessing of fast-breeder fuel, site investigations and preliminary building work
Heavy ions split US and Europe
More than 1000 nuclear physicists are striving to avoid a split in the community over the next generation of heavy-ion experiments
Particle factory opens in Italy
The first of a new generation of meson factories was officially inaugurated in Italy at the end of September
