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China to help Pakistan build two more nuclear plants
Islamabad (AFP) Oct 18, 2008Energy-hungry Pakistan said on Saturday that China had agreed to help it build two more nuclear power plants in a major boost to the country's long-term plans to end crippling electricity shortages. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced the deal after President Asif Ali Zardari returned from a four-day state visit to China which Qureshi said had been "very significant." ... more Pakistani, Chinese presidents meet in Beijing 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 15, 2008Pakistani 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 ... more 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 |
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Brussels (AFP) Oct 2, 2008Iran will continue to enrich uranium while there is no legally-binding international assurance of a nuclear fuel supply, the country's envoy to the UN's nuclear energy watchdog said Thursday. "We are going to continue as long as there is no legally-binding instrument for assurance of supply," Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told ... more New Power Generation Market Report Available 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 02, 2008Conditions within the power industry have changed significantly in recent years. The rising cost of natural gas has made this an expensive source of power, while concern about global warming and the introduction of limits on CO2 emissions will have a profound effect on the use of coal for power generation, at least in the developed world. As a consequence, nuclear power has its best chance ... more France and India vow to boost civil nuclear cooperation 
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 |
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 24, 2008There are concrete signs of a renewed interest in nuclear power spurred by a coalescence of motivating trends. Nuclear power can help meet the rapid growth of demand for electricity, avoid rate increases caused by escalating fossil fuel prices, reduce dependence on imported oil by supporting plug-in electric cars and avoid greenhouse gas emissions. Since the rapid build-up of nuclear power ... more Lithuania eyes Areva, Candu, GE, Westinghouse for nuclear plant 
Vilnius (AFP) Sept 22, 2008Lithuania is eyeing four firms, France's Areva, Canada's Candu as well as the US-based General Electric and Westinghouse, as candidates to build a nuclear power plant by 2016, the Lithuanian Electricity Organisation (LEO) said Monday. "They all are working with us. Which one is chosen will depend on the quality of the proposal -- the best price and conditions," Saulius Specius, a LEO LT ... more Malaysia to resort to nuclear energy by 2023: minister 
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
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