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Bloomberg proposes windmills for New York City
New York (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a renewable energy program for New York city that would include placing windmills on city bridges, solar panels on skyscrapers, and the use of tidal, geothermal and nuclear energy. Bloomberg unveiled the outlines of his plan late Tuesday at a major clean energy summit in Las Vegas organized by the University of Nevada. "Just five years ago last week ... more Ventyx Releases Electric Power Horizons Study 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008Ventyx has released Electric Power Horizons, a scenario-based analysis of plausible energy futures to the year 2032. The detailed study investigates renewable generation, third-generation nuclear energy, natural gas supply and greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations and analyzes their predicted effects on America's future energy security. The scenarios outlined in the study address many of the ... more Iran picks firms to hunt for new nuclear plant sites 
Tehran (AFP) Aug 19, 2008Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation on Tuesday tasked six local companies to hunt for potential sites for new nuclear power plants, the official news agency IRNA reported. "These six domestic companies have been given 13 months to find appropriate locations to build new atomic power plants," the director of the agency's nuclear energy production department, Ahmad Fayaz Bakhsh, was quoted as ... more Analysis: S. Korea looks to nuclear energy 
Seoul (UPI) Aug 19, 2008 South Korea has decided to focus its energy development efforts on nuclear power to reduce its heavy reliance on fossil fuels and meet global environment regulations. Under a long-term "basic plan for national energy," the country will build 11 new atomic reactors with a generating capacity of 1,400 megawatts each by 2030, which will make nuclear power the biggest source of electricity ... more Japan signals approval of India-US nuclear deal 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 19, 2008Japan on Tuesday signalled it would approve a nuclear energy deal between India and the United States, raising the chances that the controversial pact will come into force. The 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which controls the global flow of civilian atomic exports, is expected to meet Thursday in Vienna on the nuclear deal. Objections by any nation would scuttle the pact. Japan, the ... more |
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Los Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 14, 2008Hyperion 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 ene ... 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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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 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
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