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Progress Energy Florida Takes Next Step To Secure Energy Future
St. Petersburg FL (SPX) Mar 12, 2008Progress Energy Florida took a significant step toward securing Florida's energy future with carbon-free nuclear power. The company submitted a filing with the Florida Public Service Commission that outlines its need for additional electricity and proposes to meet that need with two nuclear units in Levy County. Nuclear power is one of three critical components of the company's balance ... more Bulgaria shortlists RWE, Electrabel for nuclear power plant 
Sofia (AFP) March 11, 2008Belgian utility Electrabel and German power giant RWE have been shortlisted to help finance and operate a new nuclear power plant in northern Bulgaria, the state-owned National Electricity Company said Tuesday. NEC said in a statement it had whittled down to just two an original shortlist of six companies interested in acquiring a minority stake in Belene Power Company, which will finance and ... more Nuclear Power Industry Facing Unsustainable Growth Demands 
Clarion PA (SPX) Mar 07, 2008Nuclear energy production must increase by more than 10 percent each year from 2010 to 2050 to meet all future energy demands and replace fossil fuels, but this is an unsustainable prospect. According to a report published in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology such a large growth rate will require a major improvement in nuclear power efficiency otherwise ... more Britain To Significantly Increase Reliance On Nuclear Power 
London (AFP) March 6, 2008Britain will "significantly" increase its reliance on nuclear energy in the next 20 years, the country's business secretary said in an interview published Thursday. Asked by the Financial Times whether the government wanted to increase the share of Britain's energy that came from nuclear power, John Hutton replied: "That's the ambition we should have ... I'd be very disappointed if it's not ... more Indonesian Governor Opposes Nuclear Power Plant 
Jakarta (AFP) March 6, 2008An Indonesian governor has backed calls to abandon plans to build a nuclear power plant in his province on the quake-prone main island of Java, a report said Thursday. The government, under pressure to improve energy supplies to the world's fourth most populous nation, plans to build its first nuclear plant on the foothills of Mount Muria, a dormant volcano on the north coast of Central Java ... more |
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Miami (AFP) Feb 26, 2008Some four million people were without power across southern Florida on Tuesday after reactors went down at a nuclear power plant, US media and police said on Tuesday. Four million people had lost electricity across a wide area including Miami and traffic signals were malfunctioning, causing congestion on roads and forcing some shops to close. "We have a massive power outage in Miami, but ... more 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 |
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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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