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Centrica plans merger with British Energy: report London (AFP) Aug 3, 2008 
British electricity and gas supplier Centrica is mulling a merger with British Energy, after French peer EDF walked away from a deal for the nuclear power operator, a newspaper report said on Sunday. The Sunday Telegraph, which quoted an unnamed source close to the company, said it was sounding out institutional investors about a possible all-shares merger. Centrica was unavailable for ... read more
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Libya Negotiates Weapons Deal With Russia
Moscow (AFP) July 31, 2008Libya is negotiating with Moscow to buy Russian weapons and for the construction of a nuclear power station, the countries' prime ministers said on Thursday. "The Libyan leadership confirmed its interest in acquiring high-quality products from the Russian defence industry," Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying by Interfax and ITAR-TASS after a meeting with Libyan Prime ... more EDF board backs acquisition of British Energy: source 
Paris (AFP) July 31, 2008State electricity company Electricite de France could make an official announcement Friday of a bid to acquire nuclear power operator British Energy after the French group's directors backed the move. EDF, the world's largest nuclear power suppliers and already Europe's number one electricity producer, has invited journalists and analysts to a press conference Friday morning after the ... more EDF, Centrica to buy British Energy: reports
London (AFP) July 24, 2008French energy giant EDF and Centrica will buy British Energy for about 12 billion pounds (15.2 billion euros, 23.9 billion dollars) and could announce the deal early next week, reports said Thursday. In reaction, nuclear power operator British Energy confirmed it was in "advanced" talks with one unnamed party. Both Centrica and EDF declined to comment. The Times newspaper and the BBC ... more 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 |
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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 EU urges extra safety for planned Slovak nuclear reactor 
Brussels (AFP) July 15, 2008The European Commission called Tuesday on Slovakia's main electricity producer to step up safety at its planned extension of a Soviet-era nuclear power plant, slammed by Greenpeace as a hazardous unit. Slovenske Elektrarne, 66 percent owned by Italian energy group Enel and 22 percent by the Slovak state, wants to complete two new reactors by 2012 and 2013 at the Mochovce plant in western ... more Steinmeier slams wholesale export of nuclear plants: report 
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 |
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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 Left-wing parties pull backing for Indian government 
New Delhi (AFP) July 8, 2008A bloc of Indian left-wing parties announced Tuesday they were pulling out their backing for the country's coalition government in protest against a nuclear energy deal with the United States. Their decision, however, was not expected to cause the collapse of the Congress-led government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who last week managed to win support from a regional party to avoid the ... more US steps up sanctions on Iran over nuclear program 
Washington (AFP) July 8, 2008The United States announced new sanctions Tuesday over Iran's nuclear energy program, naming four individuals and four entities for their ties to Tehran's nuclear and missile programs. The US Treasury announced the new measures as part of a global effort to step up pressure on Iran to halt its disputed nuclear activities. "Iran's nuclear and missile firms hide behind an array of agents ... more IAEA conducts nuclear accident response exercise in Mexico
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
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