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Coal-Fired Power Industry Now In Similiar Position To Nuclear Power In 1970s
New York NY (SPX) Feb 27, 2008With rising construction costs, regulatory uncertainties, environmental concerns and other growing risks, the U.S. utilities with more than 100 proposed new coal-fired power plants now face comparable risks and uncertainties to those that derailed the U.S. nuclear power industry in the 1970s, according to a major new report prepared by Synapse Energy Economics, Inc., for the Interfaith Center on ... more Greenpeace says will challenge completion of Slovak nuclear plant 
Bratislava (AFP) Feb 23, 2007The Slovak branch of environmental organisation Greenpeace said on Tuesday it will launch a legal challenge against plans by Slovakia's biggest electricity producer to complete two blocs of a nuclear power plant. Greenpeace said it would challenge state institutions for not carrying out an environmental impact assessment of Slovenske Elektrarne's plans to complete two reactors at an existing ... more French nuclear group Areva beats profit forecasts 
Paris (AFP) Feb 26, 2008French nuclear giant Areva said Tuesday its 2007 net profit rose 14.5 percent as chairwoman Anne Lauvergeon again called on the state-owned company to be opened up to outside investors. Areva, the world's largest nuclear power company, said net profit last year came to 743 million euros (1.1 billion dollars), above analyst forecasts of 709.5 million euros, while operating profit jumped 84.5 ... more ASAT Weapons And Doctrine In The Early 21st Century Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Feb 25, 2007 The Soviet Union once used sea reconnaissance and targeting satellites with nuclear power packs aboard. Upon completion of their duty, they would be elevated to a so-called burial orbit to circle the Earth for hundreds of years. But one of the satellites, while still active, got out of control, descended from orbit and, partly collapsed, fell in the north of Canada. Radioactive pollution ... more Favorable Confusion Might Keep Pakistan Out Of Civil War 
Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2007 Free elections in Pakistan Feb. 18 were to be the first step in bringing a dysfunctional nuclear power back to democratic stability. The preliminary first step was a deal with the pro-al-Qaida Taliban chief in the tribal areas. The new Pakistani army chief of staff, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani, and the "amir" of Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, agreed to a cease-fire, as well as the ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Feb 15, 2007 Russia and India have upgraded their unique cooperation in building civilian nuclear facilities by initializing an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of four additional energy units at the Kudankulam nuclear power station in Tamil Nadu and on joint work at other sites. Deputy Director of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency Nikolai Spassky and head of the Indian Nuclear Power ... more Namibia hopes to build nuclear power station: official 
Windhoek (AFP) Feb 15, 2008Namibia hopes to construct a nuclear power station within ten years to ensure independent power supply in the face of a regional electricity crisis, a government official said Friday. "We are thinking of nuclear-generated energy," Joseph Iita, permanent secretary of the ministry of Mines and Energy told AFP. "The political position is already there, we are working with the Americans ... more Iran feeding uranium gas into centrifuges: diplomat 
Vienna (AFP) Feb 14, 2008Iran has started feeding small amounts of uranium gas into advanced centrifuges, in what could be an important step towards mastering the technology used to make both nuclear energy and atomic bomb material, diplomats said Thursday. "They began a few weeks ago. The amount of gas is very small and it's only a small number of centrifuges," a Western diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity ... more Turkey to build first nuclear plant on Mediterranean coast 
Ankara (AFP) Feb 12, 2008Turkey has decided to build its first nuclear power plant at a controversial location on the Mediterranean coast that had been previously dropped, Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said Tuesday. "The place where everything is currently ready (for construction) is Akkuyu," Guler told the NTV news channel. An earlier plan to build a nuclear reactor at Akkuyu, in the southern province of Mersin, ... more Lithuania, Poland sign power deal, spurring nuclear plan 
Warsaw (AFP) Feb 12, 2008Poland and Lithuania Tuesday signed a deal paving the way to hook up their electricity grids, helping offset Russia's energy clout in the region and clearing a hurdle to related plans to build a new nuclear power plant. In a ceremony with Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Lithuanian opposite number Valdas Adamkus, the bosses of the two countries' state-owned electricity grid firms inke ... more |
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Bangkok (AFP) Feb 1, 2008Thailand has launched a three-year study to decide whether the kingdom should build a nuclear power plant to meet its growing energy needs, a top energy official said Friday. The study, which will cost about 1.8 billion baht (54.5 million dollars), will include a survey of potential sites, developing safety regulations and a public education campaign, said Kopr Kritaykirana, an adviser to th ... more Areva says it is ready to build 12 reactors in South Africa
Paris (AFP) Jan 31, 2008French nuclear giant Areva said on Thursday it was ready to build up to 12 next-generation power plants in South Africa, where massive electricity shortages shut down the key mining industry this month. Areva said that in addition to an earlier plan to build two nuclear power plants in South Africa, announced earlier this month, it would now offer 10 more of its third generation systems thro ... more French Niger Uranium Mines Under Direct Threat From Tuareg Nomads 
Paris (AFP) Jan 31, 2008Areva, the world's largest nuclear power company, said Thursday it was "nobody's enemy" in Niger following Tuareg rebel threats to attack uranium mines in a battle against the industry. Areva said it "valued the stability of the country (and) ... was vigilant, bearing in mind that we have some one thousand workers. "We are working with the authorities to ensure their safety," a spokesman ... more Iran vows to win nuclear tussle with West 
Tehran (AFP) Jan 30, 2008A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Tehran was nearing its target of producing nuclear energy and launched a new tirade against Israel as world powers seek to impose new sanctions on Iran. "We are moving towards the summit on the nuclear path," he said in a speech in Bushehr, the site of Iran's first nuclear power plant which Tehran expects to be commissioned in ... more EU's Solana calls for external nuclear fuel supply for Iran
Brussels (AFP) Jan 30, 2008An international "fuel bank" should be set up to provide countries like Iran with nuclear fuel for civilian purposes so they don't have to enrich uranium themselves, the EU's Javier Solana said Wednesday. "Beyond Iran itself, in a world where there is an increasing interest in nuclear power, we need to find ways of ensuring countries they can obtain nuclear fuel without having to carry out ... more
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