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Report: Feds ignoring Rocky Flats data
Denver (UPI) Nov 24, 2008 U.S. officials aren't acting on information to help Rocky Flats nuclear power plant employees exposed to radiation, a scientist said. Margaret Ruttenber of the Colorado Department of Public Health told the Rocky Mountain News she's collected data that show which workers were monitored for a particularly dangerous type of radiation emitted by neutrons. She said a federal scientist has ... more IAEA chief says no basis for denying Syria help on nuclear plant 
Vienna (AFP) Nov 24, 2008The head of the UN atomic watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, said Monday the IAEA had no legal right to deny Syria help in a nuclear power project, as called for by a number of western states. "A state has the fullest right of membership until proven otherwise," ElBaradei told a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) technical assistance and cooperation committee at a closed-do ... more Spanish police detain 30 at Greenpeace nuclear power plant protest 
Madrid (AFP) Nov 20, 2008Police in Spain detained 30 Greenpeace activists Thursday who had blocked the entrance to the country's oldest nuclear power station which the environmental group is urging the government to close, the group said. Sixty protesters, wearing bright yellow raincoats, gathered outside the entrance Garona power plant, located some 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Madrid, just before dawn ... more Firms ink deal to build 4bn euro Bulgaria nuclear plant 
Sofia (AFP) Nov 21, 2008Russian company Atomstroyexport signed an agreement on Friday with French and German subcontractors to build a new nuclear power plant in northern Bulgaria, a statement said. A consortium featuring French giant Areva and Germany's Siemens, CARSIB, was chosen by the Russian company to design the new facility's control and operations, safety, conditioning and electric systems, Atomstroyexport ... more Algeria, Argentina strike deal on nuclear energy 
Algiers (AFP) Nov 17, 2008Algeria and Argentina signed an agreement Monday to boost cooperation over civil nuclear energy as part of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's tour of northern Africa. The energy deal was signed by Algerian Energy and Mining Minister Chakib Khelil and Argentina's Minister for Federal Planning Julio de Vido. Meanwhile, Kirchner met with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for ... more |
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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 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 |
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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 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
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