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Police crackdown on German nuclear waste train protests
Berlin (AFP) Nov 9, 2008Police wielding truncheons beat back environmentalists Sunday trying to block a train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from western France to a dump in Germany, authorities said. In the largest and most violent anti-nuclear protests since 2001 in Germany, activists set fire to barricades on the tracks in the north of the country, which police extinguished with water cannon. ... more Italy to get nuclear reactors by 2018: report 
Paris (AFP) Nov 6, 2008Italy 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 ... more Russia to help in Vietnam civil nuclear program 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 6, 2008Russia 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, 2008Thailand'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, 2008One 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 |
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Paris (AFP) Nov 3, 2008Shares in French group Areva were up sharply on Monday after the world's biggest nuclear operator said it would be taking part in a US deal to manage atomic waste. In late morning trade, Areva was up 4.62 percent at 412.02 euros in a slightly firmer market. Its shares are down more than 47 percent so far this year as a result of the rout of the financial markets. The US nuclear waste ... more Bratislava, Prague back nuclear to fight green-house gases 
Bratislava (AFP) Nov 3, 2008Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and his Czech counterpart Mirek Topolanek on Monday called on the EU to back nuclear energy as a means of cutting carbon dioxide emissions and increasing energy independence. "We won't be able to do without nuclear energy in the upcoming decades (...) we have to cut our dependence on Russia and there is also the EU energy-climate package," Topolanek said at ... more Gates calls for modernization of US nuclear arsenal 
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2008US 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, 2008RWE, 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 |
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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 Hungary inaugurates first stage of nuclear waste disposal facility 
Budapest (AFP) Oct 6, 2008The 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
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