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Australia looks positively at US-Indian nuclear deal
Perth, Australia (AFP) July 24, 2008Australia is looking positively at a US-Indian civilian nuclear energy deal despite its policy of refusing to export uranium to India, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Thursday. Smith told reporters travelling with him to Perth from Singapore that Australia would now have to make a decision on whether to support it, possibly by mid-August, now that the deal has survived in the Indian ... more Hitachi, GE to develop smaller nuclear reactors 
Tokyo (AFP) July 23, 2008Japan's Hitachi and US giant General Electric will team up to sell midsize nuclear reactors to meet growing demand for power facilities in Southeast Asia, a Hitachi spokesman said Wednesday. The move comes as soaring crude oil prices and worries about global warming spur interest in nuclear power. The move is aimed at tapping into the markets in countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, and ... more 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 |
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Berlin (AFP) July 11, 2008German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned that it could prove dangerous to give nations around the world nuclear power plants in an interview published here Friday. "A nuclear power station is not a fridge. That is why I am worried about attempts to hand out nuclear power stations all over the world as a kind of cure-all," Steinmeier told the Frankfurter Rundschau. ... more 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 |
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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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