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Switzerland plans first nuclear power station for 20 years
Geneva (AFP) June 10, 2008Switzerland on Tuesday announced plans for its first new nuclear power station in more than 20 years to secure energy supplies over the coming decades. Energy group Atel said it has submitted plans to the government for a new plant near Olten in northern Switzerland, not far from the German border and the existing Goesgen facility. But the plan is not without its opponents, and the ... more Ukraine reactor stopped after water leak: officials 
Kiev (AFP) June 10, 2008A leak of radioactive water on Tuesday caused the shutdown of a nuclear reactor in western Ukraine but posed no risk to the environment, officials said. A senior official at the Rivne nuclear power plant who declined to give his name said 1.3 cubic meters of water escaped from the pipe used to cool the reactors, but remained within a sealed area. The leakage "did not exceed permitted ... more World major economies see new nuclear dawn 
Aomori, Japan (AFP) June 9, 2008Top economic powers have declared that the world is entering a new era of nuclear energy amid rising concerns over high oil prices and global warming, but Germany stood firmly as an exception. The Group of Eight industrial nations got together with China, India and South Korea at the weekend in Aomori, a hub of Japan's nuclear energy industry on the northern tip of the country's main island ... more Slovenia nuclear plant back on after alert 
Ljubljana (AFP) June 9, 2008A Slovenian nuclear power plant went back on line Monday, its managers said, after having been shut down last week in an incident that set off a Europe-wide alert. The managers of the Krsko plant, 120 kilometres (75 miles) east of the capital Ljubljana, said in a statement that it was running again after a faulty valve in its main cooling system was replaced following last Wednesday's leak. ... more Researchers Developing New Technologies To Store And Recycle Nuclear Waste 
Auburn, AL (SPX) Jun 10, 2008Auburn University professors are researching new ways to store and recycle nuclear waste as the federal government seeks to boost nuclear power production. The U.S. Department of Energy is funding AU's Center for Actinide Science to find chemical compounds that would combine with radioactive elements, allowing them to be safely stored without risk of radiation leakage. The nuclear material ... more |
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London (AFP) June 8, 2008French state-owned energy giant EDF should get the green light to take over the leading British nuclear energy producer within a fortnight, a newspaper said Sunday. An announcement could be made as early as this week, said The Observer weekly, saying the board of British Energy was expected to recommend the takeover once EDF, the world's biggest nuclear energy producer, tables its bid. ... more Outside View: Sino-Russia row -- Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 2, 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's recent visit to China has encouraged economic, cultural and other ties. The parties also signed a whole package of documents, including a $1.5 billion deal on Russia's contribution to China's nuclear power generation. The only issue the journalists on Medvedev's team overlooked was military technical cooperation -- an area of relations that has been ... more Outside View: The new China Syndrome 
Washington (UPI) May 29, 2008 Thirty or so years ago, the phrase "China Syndrome" was the battle cry of the more radical elements opposing nuclear power. The meaning was clear. A catastrophic nuclear reactor failure here would melt all the way through the Earth and end up in China -- a warning that was as ludicrous as it was dead wrong. Today, the disastrous earthquake in China's Sichuan province yields a newer mea ... more Eastern Europe states embrace nuclear power 
Warsaw (AFP) June 5, 2008Eastern European states like Slovenia, where a reactor incident set nerves jangling on Thursday, have become energetic advocates of nuclear energy, while western Europe has become more cautious. Neither the Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union in 1986 nor the leak in a water coolant on Wednesday at Slovenia's Krsko nuclear plant have dampened the enthusiasm of EU newcomers like Bulg ... more Algeria, France to sign nuclear energy pact: minister 
Algiers (AFP) June 1, 2008Algeria and France are due to sign an unprecedented nuclear energy cooperation pact, Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil said Saturday. At a press conference with Khelil, French counterpart Jean Louis Borloo said this agreement "mainly foresees an exchange of technology between the two countries as well as technical and financial assistance from France." Borloo refrained from givi ... more |
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Paris (AFP) May 27, 2008French Prime Minister Francois Fillon told parliament on Tuesday that boosting France's nuclear power sector was the answer to soaring oil costs. "We must continue to develop France's nuclear programme because that was the right reponse in 1970 and it remains the right response" to high energy costs, Fillon said. "We are not dealing with a crisis, we are dealing with a long-term increase ... more Rice plugs nuclear power, US oil exploration 
Washington (AFP) May 23, 2008The United States needs to explore more for oil at home and tap nuclear power as part of a comprehensive energy policy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview aired Friday. Speaking to CNBC television during a visit to California, Rice also dismissed fears that the US economy was losing its competitive edge to China and India. It's very important that we diversify (ene ... more China, Russia sign bln-dlr nuclear deal: official 
Beijing (AFP) May 23, 2008China and Russia on Friday signed a one-billion-dollar deal to expand a nuclear energy facility in the Asian nation, a Russian official said. "We have completed negotiations on construction of a uranium enrichment factory," Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom, told reporters in Beijing. He was speaking during a visit to Beijing by new Russian President Dmitry Med ... more Nuclear breaks out as America's new 'green' darling 
Washington (AFP) May 22, 2008Long considered a pariah by environmental activists, nuclear energy is making a comeback as the new darling of the US "green" rush, as Americans cozy up to the idea of carbon-free power. The nuclear drive underway caps nearly three decades of a freeze on reactor construction following the 1979 accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island (TMI) plant, which sparked panic over the risk of ... more European leaders call for nuclear power revival 
Prague (AFP) May 22, 2008European nuclear leaders launched a call here Thursday for measures to ensure the revival of atomic energy in the face of soaring oil prices and concerns over global warming. At a two-day European Commission-sponsored forum in Prague, officials and government leaders said real steps had to be taken to put nuclear power back into the energy mix. "We are more and more dependent on oil and ... more
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