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Hyperion Power Generation Sells First Transportable Nuclear Power Reactor Los Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 14, 2008
Hyperion Power Generation's CEO, John R. 'Grizz" Deal has announced that the company has received its first Letter of Intent to purchase the Hyperion Power Module (HPM), a small, compact, transportable, nuclear power reactor. The intention to purchase up to six units for various projects, at approximately $25 million each, was placed by TES Group, an investment company focusing on the ... read more
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EDF says to raise stake in US Constellation Energy in nuclear field
Paris (AFP) Aug 13, 2008French electricity group EDF said on Wednesday its board had given approval for the company to raise its interest in US firm Constellation Energy from 4.97 percent to 9.9 percent. EDF, controlled by the French state and the biggest generator of nuclear power in the world, and Constellation Energy, intend to operate jointly nuclear power stations of the European pressurised reactor (EPR) type ... more Progress Energy Florida Files Nuclear Plant Application With NRC
St. Petersburg FL (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Progress Energy Florida has announced that it submitted a combined license (COL) application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to construct a new nuclear power plant in Levy County, Florida. The application, submitted to the NRC July 30, included the request to build two Westinghouse AP1000(TM) nuclear reactors at the site. Nuclear power is a key component of Progress Energy ... more Japan recognises India's need for nuclear power: official
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 4, 2008Japan recognises India's need for civilian nuclear power, a Japanese government official said here Monday, a day ahead of talks in which an Indo-US atomic energy pact is expected to be a key focus. Japanese foreign minister Masahiko Koumura and his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee were due to meet Tuesday in New Delhi to discuss the pact and other regional issues. "We understand ... more 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 |
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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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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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