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Malaysia to mull nuclear energy amid rising oil prices: minister
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) June 22, 2008Malaysia may consider nuclear power generation to meet its long-term energy needs amid surging global oil prices, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said. Razak said the government would look at alternative energy sources, including nuclear power, to help the nation reduce its reliance on oil, which has hit nearly 140 dollars a barrel on global markets. The government hiked fuel prices ... more France signs nuclear energy, military deals with Algeria 
Algiers (AFP) June 21, 2008French Prime Minister Francois Fillon signed nuclear energy and military agreements with Algeria Saturday, ahead of talks aimed at persuading Algiers to back French plans for a Mediterranean Union. "In signing these two accords, our countries have set the seal on genuine long-term mutual confidence," Fillon said in a speech to Algerian students. Along with deals on banking and insurance ... more Crunch talks on India-US nuclear deal postponed 
New Delhi (AFP) June 18, 2008Crucial talks between the Indian government and its left-wing allies on a controversial nuclear energy pact with the United States were postponed Wednesday with both sides still at odds over the deal. Neither side gave any reason for the delay but a source close to the talks, who asked not to be named, said left-wing parties were refusing to respond to a government appeal for the deal to go ... more Russian Nuclear Agency Rejects Rumors Of Radiation Leaks 
Moscow (SPX) Jun 19, 2008Russian nuclear power agency Rosatom dismissed on Monday rumors circulating of a radioactive leak from two plants in northwest and south Russia. Bogus e-mail messages on June 15 said that there had been alleged radioactive leaks at the Leningrad nuclear power station, in northwest Russia, and the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant, in the south of the country, a spokesman for the company said. ... more Indian govt struggles with US nuclear pact 
New Delhi (AFP) June 17, 2008The future of a key nuclear energy pact between New Delhi and Washington appeared bleak Tuesday with the Indian government apparently failing to win over sceptical left-wing allies. A communist leader warned that the dominant Congress party would fail in its latest effort to push through the deal, aimed at giving India access to the worldwide nuclear energy trade without signing global ... more |
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Bucharest (AFP) June 11, 2008The UN's atomic watchdog has given Romania's nuclear power plant in Cernavoda a clean bill of health, the plant's operator Nuclearelectrica said Wednesday. Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who visited the plant at the beginning of this month, issued a "positive report" on the plant, Nuclearelectrica said in a statement. The IAEA experts found that Cernavoda "applies ... more 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 |
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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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