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Italy to get nuclear reactors by 2018: report
Paris (AFP) Nov 6, 2008
Italy will build up to ten nuclear power reactors to cover a quarter of the country's energy needs, with the first batch operational by 2018, Italian media reported Thursday. "Our goal is for nuclear energy to cover 25 percent of our energy needs, which corresponds to between eight and 10 plants built on two to three sites," Italy's economic development minister Claudio Scajola was quoted by ... read more
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    Russia to help in Vietnam civil nuclear program
    Moscow (AFP) Nov 6, 2008
    Russia wants to take part in Vietnam's planned nuclear energy program, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov said Thursday following talks with Vietnam's Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem in Hanoi. "We know that such plans were made in Vietnam, very daring and far-reaching plans. We hope that Russia will be among those who will work with Vietnam in this hi-tech area and continue the ... more

    Thailand commissions nuclear power plant study
    Bangkok (AFP) Nov 5, 2008
    Thailand's state electricity firm said Wednesday it had signed a contract with a US company to conduct a feasibility study for what would be the nation's first nuclear power plant. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) signed a 4.97-million-dollar contract with engineering firm Burns and Roe Asia for a 20-month study and will decide whether to press ahead with nuclear power ... more

    Czech nuclear power station shutdown extended
    Prague (AFP) Nov 4, 2008
    One of the reactors at the Czech nuclear power station at Temelin, closed for maintenance since the end of July, is to remain shut for several more weeks so a turbine blade can be repaired, the plant operator said Tuesday. The unit at the plant, situated 60 kilometres (35 miles) from the Austrian border, was shut down for 75 days at the end of July for routine maintenance, extended for two ... more

    Austria should exit Euratom Treaty: Green party
    Vienna (AFP) Nov 4, 2008
    The Austrian Green party called Tuesday for Austria to quit the European Atomic Energy Community (Euroatom or EAEC), saying public money paid to the body could be better used elsewhere. Austria, which is constitutionally opposed to nuclear energy, "must exit the Euroatom Treaty," Green party spokeswoman Eva Glawischnig said. "We call for the immediate cessation of payments to Euratom. ... more

    IAEA experts going back to quake-hit Japan nuclear plant
    Vienna (AFP) Nov 4, 2008
    Experts led by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog will go to Japan next month for a third inspection of the world's largest nuclear power station since a July 2007 earthquake, it said Tuesday. In a statement, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the 10 experts will "review the ongoing assessment of the impact of an earthquake on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant" ... more

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    Gates calls for modernization of US nuclear arsenal
    Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2008
    US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Tuesday for the modernization of the US nuclear arsenal to strengthen deterrence at a time when Russia and China are upgrading their nuclear weapons. "Currently, the United States is the only declared nuclear power that is neither modernizing its nuclear arsenal nor has the capability to produce a new nuclear weapon," he said in a speech to the ... more

    RWE eyes nuclear projects outside Germany: report
    Frankfurt (AFP) Oct 22, 2008
    RWE, Germany's second-biggest power supplier, plans to take part in up to five nuclear power projects outside Germany, its chairman said in a newspaper interview Wednesday. "RWE will participate in projects outside Germany. It depends on financing and on what partner we find. But I think that three to five (projects) are in the pipeline," chief executive Juergen Grossmann told the daily ... more

    World will tremble if Pakistan falls
    Washington (UPI) Oct 21, 2008
    The global financial crisis is close to knocking out its most important and potentially most dangerous victim yet: Pakistan needs a financial support package of $10 billion to $15 billion to avoid collapse. The stakes could not be higher: With a rapidly increasing population of more than 150 million -- larger than that of Russia -- Pakistan is also the world's only Muslim nuclear power. ... more

    Russia, India lay groundwork for nuclear pact
    New Delhi (AFP) Oct 20, 2008
    Russia and India were Monday laying the groundwork for the signing of a civil nuclear energy deal, following New Delhi's signing of similar pacts with Washington and Paris, officials said. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was in India for talks with his counterpart Pranab Mukherjee as well as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ahead of an expected visit to New Delhi in December by President ... more

    China to help Pakistan build two more nuclear plants
    Islamabad (AFP) Oct 18, 2008
    Energy-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

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    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, 2008
    Peak 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

    Hungary inaugurates first stage of nuclear waste disposal facility
    Budapest (AFP) Oct 6, 2008
    The completed first stage of a nuclear waste disposal site -- the first in Hungary -- was inaugurated Monday in Bataapati, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) southwest of Budapest. "The Bataapati National Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility provides the most extensive security permitted by current scientific and technological knowledge," Jozsef Palinkas, the chairman of the Hungarian Academy ... more

    Without assured nuclear supply Iran will keep enriching: envoy
    Brussels (AFP) Oct 2, 2008
    Iran 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, 2008
    Conditions 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

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