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Pakistani, Chinese presidents meet in Beijing Beijing (AFP) Oct 15, 2008 
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari met his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Wednesday as he looked to Islamabad's loyal ally for crucial financial and nuclear energy investments. Zardari, on his first state trip since taking office in September, was greeted by Hu at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, the seat of power in China. Hu extended an effusive welcome, stressing close bilateral ... read more
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Pakistani president arrives in China to seek financial help
Beijing (AFP) Oct 14, 2008Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in China Tuesday for a trip that was expected to see him seek help for his country's embattled economy and the expansion of its nuclear energy industry. Zardari, on his first state trip since taking office in September, landed in Beijing after making clear in an interview with China's official Xinhua news agency that building economic ties would ... more PPL Applies For New Nuclear Unit License 
Allentown PA (SPX) Oct 15, 2008A PPL subsidiary has filed an application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to build and operate a new nuclear plant under consideration near Berwick, Pa. The Bell Bend nuclear plant would be built near the company's existing two-unit Susquehanna nuclear power plant, a facility that has been generating safe and reliable electricity and providing significant benefits ... more Analysis: India favors Russia for arms 
Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2008 U.S. President George W. Bush will leave office in January seeing India's famous special relationship with a global thermonuclear power stronger than ever. The only trouble is, India's ever-closer alliance is not with the United States, but with Russia. This basic fact of global and Asian geopolitical life is widely and openly reported in the Russian and Indian press, yet somehow it ... more Analysis: New nuclear research is the bomb 
Tokyo (UPI) Oct 7, 2008 A Japanese research team is developing a technology that would make it more difficult for countries to import plutonium for use in producing nuclear weapons. If this technology can be used practically to safeguard against the misuse of nuclear energy, Japan may help bolster nuclear non-proliferation by supplementing the provisions of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Last month a ... more The Future Of Energy In Latin America 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2008Peak oil in Latin America is less than 10 years away; energy integration, nuclear power plants, and large-scale renewable power generation are necessities to ensure sufficient energy supplies in the future; the region's governments should play a stronger role in their respective energy sectors; and Latin America and the Caribbean are ripe for business. These are the significant findings of ... more |
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Marseille, France (AFP) Sept 29, 2008Indian and French leaders vowed to boost nuclear energy cooperation Monday at an annual summit on EU-India ties dominated by trade, global warming and the world financial crisis. "France, which has great trust in India and its prime minister, has worked hard so that India can have access to civilian nuclear energy," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating EU ... more Venezuela wants to work with Russia on nuclear energy: Chavez 
Caracas (AFP) Sept 28, 2008Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he was interested in accepting Russia's offer of help in developing a civilian nuclear power program. "We certainly are interested in developing nucler energy, for peaceful ends of course -- for medical purposes and to generate electricity," he said. "Brazil has various nuclear reactors, as does Argentina," he added. "We will have ours as ... more Russia may launch nuclear cooperation with Venezuela: Putin 
Novo-Ogaryovo, Russia (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Russia may launch nuclear energy cooperation with Venezuela, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday during talks with the country's fiercely anti-US leader Hugo Chavez. "We are ready to consider a possibility of cooperation in using nuclear energy," Putin said. Putin also noted "development of our ties in all spheres," with "new possibilities in energy, high-tech, machine co ... more Analysis: Kazakhstan's uranium exchange 
Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2008 A year that has seen record-high oil prices has left nations considering alternatives that seemed too expensive or environmentally unfriendly as recently as a year ago, when oil was still $60 a barrel. Wind and wave power, bio-fuels and solar energy are now attracting increased attention, as is nuclear power, which acquired a negative image worldwide after the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mi ... more Russian-led consortium only bidder in Turkey nuclear plant tender 
Ankara (AFP) Sept 24, 2008A partnership led by Russian state firm Atomstroyexport on Wednesday submitted the only bid in a tender to build and operate Turkey's first nuclear power plant, a senior energy official said. The consortium, which also includes Turkey's Park Termik, was among 13 foreign and local companies which had expressed interest in building a 4,000-megawatt plant at Akkuyu, in Mersin province on the ... more |
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Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 20, 2008Malaysia will turn to nuclear energy to generate electricity by 2023 as supplies of fossil fuel eventually run out, a minister said according to Saturday news reports. Energy, Water and Communications Minister Shaziman Mansor said the use of nuclear energy was also an alternative to counter high global oil prices, the Star newspaper reported. "I will be briefing the cabinet in a fortnight ... more India, France close to nuclear cooperation pact: official 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 19, 2008India and France are close to an signing a nuclear energy pact similar to a deal New Delhi has already struck with Washington, India's top diplomat said Friday. The accord is expected to be signed during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to France on September 30, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said. "We are working on signing the agreement," Menon told reporters. ... more Luminant To Submit Application To Expand Nuclear Power Plant 
Dallas TX (SPX) Sep 22, 2008Luminant will submit an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the potential expansion of its Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Glen Rose, Texas. "This application is an initial, but significant, step toward expanding the use of safe, dependable, clean nuclear power," said Luminant Chief Executive Officer David Campbell. "While we are just at the beginning of a ... more Energy group EON signs deal to connect with British power grid 
London (AFP) Sept 11, 2008German energy group EON, which wants to build nuclear power stations in Britain, on Thursday signed an agreement enabling it to connect with the British national power network, an EON spokesman said. The deal, signed with the British group National Grid, calls for the eventual connection of a new nuclear reactor that could be built next to a reactor already in service in Oldbury, near ... more Russia To Build Baltic Nuclear Power Plant 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2008Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power (Rosatom), has signed the order on the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia's exclave on the Baltic Sea. Preliminary work for the project is to start in 2009. Russia decided to build a nuclear power plant in its westernmost region to ensure its own energy security, but the new power plant will ... more
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