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Centrica says in talks over British Energy takeover
London (AFP) Aug 4, 2008British electricity and gas supplier Centrica said Monday it was in talks with a "third party," thought to be French utility giant EDF, regarding a takeover of nuclear power generator British Energy. "Centrica confirms that it is in discussions with a third party with a view to Centrica taking a minority ownership position in British Energy, subject to various conditions, including this ... more Centrica plans merger with British Energy: report 
London (AFP) Aug 3, 2008British 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 ... more 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 |
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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 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 |
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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 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
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