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US Bechtel wins Egypt nuclear power contract
Cairo (AFP) Dec 22, 2008The US company Bechtel Power has won a 10-year contract worth one billion pounds (180 million dollars) to consult on and help design Egypt's first nuclear power station, state media said on Monday. A committee formed from different government bodies selected Bechtel from seven other corporations, Egypt's state news agency MENA quoted Minister of Energy and Electricity Hassan Younis as saying ... more RWE signs deal to co-run Bulgarian nuclear plant 
Sofia (AFP) Dec 19, 2008German power giant RWE signed a deal on Friday with Bulgaria's state-owned National Electricity Company to help finance and run a new four-billion-euro nuclear power plant on the Danube. RWE was picked in October to become a strategic partner in the project by acquiring a 49-percent stake in the Belene Power Company, which will finance and run the plant near the northern town of Belene. ... more New cost overrun for Finnish nuclear plant: Areva 
Paris (AFP) Dec 19, 2008French nuclear technology group Areva announced Friday a new cost overrun for a major project in Finland to build a nuclear power plant amid deteriorating relations with Finnish partner TVO. Areva did not reveal the size of the provision it was taking for the unbudgeted costs of the already delayed plant, which will include a new generation reactor that is the first of its kind to be built. ... more Areva, Mitsubishi Heavy to tie-up in nuclear fuel: report 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 21, 2008Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and major French nuclear energy company Areva will form a capital tie-up in nuclear fuel production, a report said Sunday. Areva will buy a roughly 30 percent stake in Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel Co. and Mitsubishi Heavy will become the nuclear company's leading shareholder, the business daily Nikkei reported, without citing sources. Areva's new investment ... more French nuclear firm Areva says it will deliver uranium to India 
Paris (AFP) Dec 18, 2008French nuclear power engineering company Areva will deliver 300 tonnes of uranium to India under an agreement signed in September, the French company said in a statement on Thursday. The uranium will go to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) and is the first such shipment since a 34-year international embargo on international nuclear trade with India was lifted in September. ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Dec 10, 2008The presidents of Russia and Argentina Wednesday sealed an array of cooperation deals, including in nuclear energy, and vowed to work together to promote a "multipolar world." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and visiting Argentinian counterpart Cristina Kirchner held talks in the Kremlin that focused on promoting economic relations beyond trade towards areas like nuclear energy or military ... more India, Russia sign nuclear energy, space deals 
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Russia on Friday signed landmark accords with its traditional ally India on issues ranging from nuclear energy to space, as President Dmitry Medvedev met Indian leaders in a bid to bolster ties. The accords covered the building of four new nuclear energy reactors in Kudankulam in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, as well as a cooperation accord on manned space flight. Russia becomes the ... more India promises to open nuclear sector to private players 
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 6, 2008India's government has pledged to open up its nuclear sector to private players -- once it completes bilateral civil nuclear cooperation pacts. The statement late Friday came after Indian Premier Manmohan Singh signed a landmark nuclear deal with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev earlier in the day covering the building of four new nuclear energy reactors in India. "Once negotiations ... more IAEA to issue new report on quake-hit Japan nuclear plant 
Vienna (AFP) Dec 5, 2008The United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Friday would publish the findings next month of its latest inspection of the world's largest nuclear power station after it was hit by an earthquake in July 2007. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement that a team of 10 experts had now returned from their third trip to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan to ... more China to kick off inland nuclear power projects: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2008Construction of an 8.7 billion dollar nuclear power plant in eastern China is set to begin soon, as part of ambitious plans for more atomic energy in the nation's interior, state press said Thursday. Work on the 60 billion yuan (8.7 billion dollar) Pengze nuclear plant in eastern China's Jiangxi province will begin, with authorities also approving plants in nearby Hubei and Hunan provinces ... more |
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Amman (AFP) Nov 24, 2008China on Monday signed a protocol with Jordan to help the tiny desert kingdom produce nuclear power to meet its growing energy needs and desalinate water, a senior official said. "China is going to assist Jordan in mining and enriching uranium as well as training and studies related to building a nuclear station," Khaled Tukan, head of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission, told the state-run ... more 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
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