News About Civil Nuclear Energy 09-FEB-10 en-us Vienna (AFP) Feb 8, 2010 - Iran officially notified the UN nuclear watchdog Monday of its plans to produce 20 percent enriched uranium, Tehran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency told AFP. ]]> Tehran (AFP) Feb 8, 2010 - Iran was expected Monday to officially inform the UN nuclear watchdog of its plans to enrich uranium to a higher level, but insisted it will stop the process if a UN-backed nuclear deal is clinched.]]> Moscow (AFP) Feb 9, 2010 - Russia and China agreed on the cost of constructing the second stage of China's Tianwan nuclear power station, the RIA Novosti news agency reported quoting sources close to the talks.]]> Brasilia (AFP) Feb 4, 2010 - Brazil has not discussed enriching uranium for Iran under an international deal, its foreign ministry said Thursday, contradicting an Iranian official's reported comments that the South American nation might take on that role.]]> Paris (AFP) Feb 5, 2010 - French energy groups Areva and EDF have reached an agreement on the treatment of nuclear waste following weeks of tensions, the companies announced Friday.]]> London (AFP) Feb 4, 2010 - Britain and India have agreed the text of a deal on civil nuclear cooperation, ministers from both countries announced after talks in London on Thursday.]]> Milan (AFP) Feb 4, 2010 - The Italian government announced on Thursday it would challenge a ban in three of the country's regions preventing the construction of nuclear plants on their territory in the Constitutional Court.]]> Stockholm, Sweden (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 - Sweden is investigating claims that Russia during the 1990s dumped chemical and nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea.]]> Tehran (AFP) Feb 3, 2010 - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement that Iran is willing to send its uranium abroad was cautiously welcomed by world powers on Wednesday as a sign Tehran might accept a UN-brokered nuclear fuel deal.]]> Madrid (AFP) Feb 3, 2010 - Thirteen Spanish towns have bid to host a major new nuclear waste storage site, a long-delayed project that is fiercely opposed by environmentalists, the government announced Wednesday.]]>