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London (AFP) May 11, 2008French state-owned energy giant EDF, the world's biggest nuclear energy producer, has ambitions to expand into a lucrative future British market with a bid for the leading British nuclear energy producer. Friday was the deadline for bids for the British government's 35.2 percent stake in British Energy, the biggest British power generator, a privatised company providing nearly 19 percent of ... more New agency to promote French nuclear know-how 
Paris (AFP) May 7, 2008The French government said Wednesday it plans to create a new agency in charge of offering French nuclear expertise to countries wishing to develop civilian nuclear power. Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo submitted to plans for the new body, called France Nuclear International, for approval by the cabinet, government spokesman Luc Chatel told reporters. France is vying to lead a wo ... more Analysis: Storage needs for nuclear growth 
Hanover, Germany (UPI) May 6, 2008 Expanding nuclear power to meet growing energy demand worldwide may be hindered by the lack of repositories for spent nuclear fuel, but planned national underground repositories in some countries and interim storage options could sustain nuclear energy's rapid growth in the short term. Proposed international storage sites for spent nuclear fuel in Russia and other countries may ... more Russia, US sign nuclear energy deal 
Moscow (AFP) May 6, 2008The United States and Russia signed an agreement in Moscow on Tuesday for cooperation in the nuclear energy industry between the two former Cold War foes. The agreement will allow US and Russian companies to form joint ventures in the nuclear sector and gives the go-ahead for exchanges of nuclear technology between the two countries, officials said. Russia will also be able to ... more Analysis: Azeris seize Iran nuke material 
Washington, April 29, 2008 Amid increasingly rancorous U.S.-Iranian relations over Tehran's nuclear energy program, the U.N. sanctions regime scored a small victory March 29 when Azerbaijan's customs and frontier officials detained a Russian cargo bound for Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility. Khazar Ibragim, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry, said the convoy of trucks carrying the shipment, sent from ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) pril 25, 2008 Azerbaijani customs officials have been keeping a single Russian trailer -- which they describe as a truck convoy -- carrying absolutely safe heat-insulating equipment for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant at the Astara checkpoint on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border since March 29. Russia sees no reason for this. "We have an agreement on the transit of the cargo across Azerbaijan ... more Ceramic, Heal Thyself 
Richland WA (SPX) Apr 28, 2008A new computer simulation has revealed a self-healing behavior in a common ceramic that may lead to development of radiation-resistant materials for nuclear power plants and waste storage. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that the restless movement of oxygen atoms heals radiation-induced damage in the engineered ceramic yttria-stabilized zirco ... more Outside View: Baltic nuke plant criticized 
Moscow (UPI) April 25, 2008 Russian plans to build a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad Region have provoked protests from Europeans concerned about environmental and radiological safety. The plant is intended to ensure the Baltic enclave's energy security. Russian physicist Anatoly Zrodnikov once said, "The world is now not ruled by the dollar or the euro, but by the joule." There are many nuclear ... more Nuclear waste storage inaugurated in Chernobyl 
Kiev (AFP) April 23, 2008Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko Wednesday inaugurated a nuclear waste storage and processing centre in the contaminated zone around the Chernobyl nuclear station ahead of the catastrophe's 22nd anniversary, his press service said. The centre's first module, constructed with the European Commission's aid, would be launched by the end of the year, Valentin Melnichenko, a project official ... more Baku says Russian nuclear delivery to Iran halted 
Baku (AFP) April 22, 2008Azerbaijan said on Tuesday it had detained a Russian shipment intended for the Iranian nuclear power plant under construction at Bushehr due to concerns that it might violate UN sanctions. Foreign ministry spokesman Khazar Ibragim told AFP that Azerbaijan had stopped the shipment at its border with southern neighbour Iran because Russia had failed to provide detailed information on its ... more |
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Bucharest (AFP) April 17, 2008Romania aims to hold on to the controlling stake in a partnership to build two more reactors at its Cernovada nuclear power plant, Economy Minister Varujan Vosganian said Thursday. "We have two billion euros (3.2 billion dollars) at our disposal from privatisations and we already have experience from building the first two reactors," Vosganian said. The minister said the government would ... more Crunch Time For Natural Gas 
Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 18, 2008As coal, oil and nuclear power are steadily being undermined by environmental and siting concerns, energy purchasers for industrials, power generators and local distribution companies, increasingly dependent on natural gas as a basic fuel, will be at GasMart 2008 in Chicago May 20-22 to hear from gas industry leaders on resource availability, deliverability and cost. The pressure is on the ... more Nuclear power has important role in reducing CO2: Brussels 
Brussels (AFP) April 15, 2008EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs on Tuesday stressed the "important role" played by nuclear power in providing Europe's energy needs and helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "Nuclear energy makes an important contribution to our fight against climate change and our security of energy supply," Piebalgs told a conference of the European Nuclear Assembly in Brussels. However he ... more Russia, Mongolia sign uranium accord: reports 
Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008Russia and Mongolia signed on Friday an agreement on cooperation in the uranium sector, as Moscow pushes to develop nuclear power in the neighbouring state, Russian news agencies reported. "The signing of this document ensures a multi-faceted approach to developing aspects of atomic energy in Mongolia," the head of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, was quoted by ... more Greenpeace complains to EU over Slovak nuclear plans 
Brussels (AFP) April 11, 2008The environmental group Greenpeace filed an official complaint with the European Commission on Friday, alleging illegal Slovakian state aid for a "pre-Chernobyl" nuclear power plant project. The complaint claims that the Slovak authorities used "market-distorting measures" to push through "what would otherwise have been an unviable and unattractive project". ... more
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