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Japan's CO2 emissions hit record high: official
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 12, 2008Japan's carbon dioxide emissions hit a record high of 1.37 billion tons in the year to March 2008, well above the target set by the Kyoto Protocol, the environment ministry said Wednesday. The figure, which marked a 2.3 percent rise from the previous fiscal year, was mainly the result of more polluting energy production following the closure of the world's biggest nuclear power plant after ... more Nuclear waste arrives at German dump after fierce protests 
Berlin (AFP) Nov 11, 2008A radioactive waste shipment arrived at a German dump Tuesday after the biggest anti-nuclear protests in years, pointing up the fierce opposition to reversing Berlin's phase-out of atomic energy. The protests, the biggest since 2001 with thousands of police deployed over the weekend, caused the 123 tonnes of nuclear waste to arrive around 20 hours late at the Gorleben disposal site in ... more German riot police break up nuclear protest 
Berlin (AFP) Nov 10, 2008German riot police tried Monday to break up a human blockade of a radioactive waste disposal site in the country's biggest anti-nuclear protests since 2001. In a sign of the fierce popular opposition to nuclear power in Germany, security forces in riot gear began extracting and carrying one-by-one some of the roughly 1,000 demonstrators away from the entrance to the Gorleben waste dump in ... more 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 |
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Vienna (AFP) Nov 4, 2008The 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, 2008Experts 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 Top Slovakian power producer starts building two nuclear units 
Bratislava (AFP) Nov 3, 2008The dominant Slovakian power producer Slovenske elektrarne (SE) launched the construction of two new units at the Mochovce nuclear power plant in western Slovakia on Monday. "This project is essential to Slovakia's self-sufficiency. Nuclear energy is now a segment that is crucial and correct, as confirmed by EU officials," Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said at a ceremony on the ... more Areva shares rise sharply on US nuclear waste deal 
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 |
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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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