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Nuclear accident exercise in Mexico a 'success', IAEA says
Vienna (AFP) July 11, 2008The nuclear accident response exercise conducted at the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant in Mexico this week was a "success", the UN's atomic watchdog said Friday. "The exercise was a success in that it demonstrated strengths but also the weak points in the international emergency response system," said International Atomic Energy Agency official, Rafael Martincic, who led the preparation ... more Analysis: Uzbek uranium exports increase 
Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2008 Record-high oil prices are causing many nations to re-evaluate other energy options, especially nuclear power, despite its environmental shortcomings. As the number of nuclear plants increases, so will demand for uranium, giving producer nations increased market opportunities. Since 2001 uranium prices have increased more than 1,000 percent; seven years ago a pound of uranium sold for ... more Merkel calls for slower nuclear phase-out in Germany 
Berlin (AFP) July 13, 2008Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a contentious call Sunday to slow Germany's planned phase-out of nuclear energy, amid growing fears it will be impossible to slash greenhouse gas emissions without it. Germany plans to mothball the last of its 17 nuclear power plants, which emit no carbon dioxide and produce a quarter of the country's electricity, by 2020 under a plan approved under Merkel's ... more The Nuclear Cycle And The Cycle Of Hostility Part Three 
Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2008 The recommendation of a State Department advisory panel that the United States band together with other existing nuclear powers to build safeguards into the growing market for reactor capacity risks fanning nationalistic hostility in the Third World to global anti-proliferation regimes, say some critics. A task force of the International Security Advisory Board -- chaired by former ... more Analysis: U.S. nuclear watchdog -- Part 2 
Washington (UPI) Jul 9, 2008 The United States should embrace a global expansion of civil nuclear power generation, in order to ensure that it and other supplier nations can build safeguards into the growing market, says a report from a State Department advisory panel. The report highlights a vigorous debate about the extent to which regulatory regimes -- even of the tough kind it advocates -- can actually provide ... more |
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Vienna (AFP) July 8, 2008The UN's atomic watchdog said Tuesday it would conduct a major exercise to test the response to a simulated accident at a nuclear power plant in Mexico starting Wednesday. A total 74 IAEA member states and 10 international organisations are to take part in the 48-hour drill, a mock radiation emergency at the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant in Alta Lucero, Mexico, the Internatinal Atomic ... more Putin, Ahmadinejad discuss nuclear plant progress: PM's office 
Moscow (AFP) July 7, 2008Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday discussed progress on a nuclear power plant Russia is building in Iran, a statement from Putin's office said. "Both sides underlined the need for timely construction of the atomic power station at Bushehr," the statement said. They also discussed cooperation in the transport and arms sectors, the st ... more Europeans' reservations about nuclear energy on the decline: survey 
Brussels (AFP) July 3, 2008Reservations about the use of nuclear energy are on the decline in Europe, although there is still no majority in favour, according to an EU survey published on Thursday. Some 44 percent of Europeans are either "totally in favour" or "fairly in favour" of nuclear energy, according to the survey, carried out in February and March. The last time the survey was carried out in 2005 the ... more France to build second latest-generation nuclear plant 
Le Creusot, France (AFP) July 3, 2008President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Thursday that France will build a second third-generation EPR nuclear plant, arguing nuclear power was the country's best answer to soaring energy prices. Sarkozy, who has made exporting French nuclear know-how a priority of his presidency, made the announcement during a speech on energy policy at an ArcelorMittal steel factory in central France. ... more Europe must end energy dependence on Russia: ex-IEA chief 
Paris (AFP) July 5, 2008The European Union should free itself from its dependence on Russian gas by developing renewable and nuclear energy, the former head of the International Energy Agency told EU ministers Saturday. "We need to give ourselves a flexibility that we are missing," Claude Mandil told the European bloc's 27 energy ministers at an informal meeting on the outskirts of Paris. "We need more energy ... more |
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Sofia (AFP) June 24, 2008Bulgaria will look at building new reactors at the Kozloduy nuclear plant as it seeks to guarantee its long-term electricity supply and exports, Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said Tuesday. Stanishev said the government was "studying the possibility to build additional nuclear capacity at the site of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant. "We have set up a special working group to study this ... more Repair of Slovenian nuclear power plant according to law: plant official 
Ljubljana (AFP) June 23, 2008No worker at Slovenia's nuclear power plant Krsko was exposed to excessive levels of radiation during a recent leak in the cooling system, a spokeswoman for the plant said on Monday. "I can assure you that none of the workers that intervened in the repair of the valve in the cooling system was exposed to a level of radiation higher than those allowed by the law," the Krsko plant's spokeswoma ... more 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
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