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Malaysia looking at building its first nuclear plant: report
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) July 22, 2008Malaysian utility Tenaga may construct the country's first nuclear power plant at a cost of 3.1 billion dollars but is braced for objections from the public, a report said Tuesday. "We are looking at about 10 billion ringgit (3.1 billion dollars) for a 1,000 MW plant," Mohamad Zam Zam Jaafar, head of Tenaga's nuclear energy taskforce, was quoted as saying by the Edge financial daily newspaper ... more New uranium leak discovered at French nuclear site 
Paris (AFP) July 18, 2008French nuclear safety authorities and nuclear giant Areva admitted Friday, after a second nuclear power plant leak in as many weeks, that security for nuclear power in the country needs revamped. Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said he wanted to review all security measures in the nuclear industry, carry out tests on the ground water near all reactors and assess the state of waste storage ... more Afghanistan to look into Pakistan nuclear dumping claims 
Kabul (AFP) July 16, 2008President Hamid Karzai appointed Wednesday a team of experts to investigate allegations that Pakistan had dumped nuclear waste in southern Afghanistan, his office said. In April, an Afghan minister told the BBC that his government had evidence Pakistan had buried its nuclear waste in the southern Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar during the 1996-2001 Taliban regime. But the ... more New French giant GDF Suez interested in British nuclear sites 
Paris (AFP) July 16, 2008Newly formed global energy giant GDF Suez of France is interested in nuclear power operator British Energy but only if the company is split up and sold off site by site. "If the plan remains to sell British Energy in one go, then it will be sold without us," said GDF Suez head Gerard Mestrallet in an interview with Les Echos daily to appear Thursday. To acquire the company in a bloc ... more Analysis: Nuclear revival without Germany 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 16, 2008 Global warming and rising energy prices have sparked a worldwide renaissance of nuclear energy -- but not in Germany, where the grand coalition government is still bickering over the planned phase-out of nuclear power by 2021. The United States, China, India, Russia, France, Canada, Britain, Finland, Sweden -- the list of countries aiming to build new nuclear power plants or at least ... more |
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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 Nuke Watchdog Warns About Nuclear Power And Proliferation Dangers Part One 
Washington (UPI) Jul 8, 2008 A report from a State Department advisory panel says a coming large expansion in global nuclear power generation poses proliferation risks, but the United States must embrace it to ensure that nuclear supplier nations build safeguards into the growing market. The report highlights division among experts about the future of civil nuclear power across the globe, the risks it poses, and ... more |
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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 Toxic legacy: Scientists ponder task of labelling nuclear waste 
Paris (AFP) June 30, 2008How will "DANGER!" be written 5,000 years from now? How will it be written in 50,000 years? Finding an answer to these questions may not seem like a Code Red emergency to most people. But for a growing cadre of scientists, figuring out how to alert our distant descendants to perilous nuclear waste entombed hundreds of metres (feet) below ground has become a fascinating task. ... more Spanish PM firm on phasing out nuclear power 
Madrid (AFP) June 28, 2008Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Saturday he would not extend the life of Spain's ageing nuclear plants as he repeated his government's commitment to phasing out nuclear power. "We are committed to respecting the normal life-span of the plants unless there are urgent energy needs, and to not building new nuclear plants," he said in an interview with top-selling daily El Pais. ... more
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