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Electrabel says will challenge windfall tax
Brussels (AFP) Dec 24, 2008
Electrabel, the Belgian subsidiary of French energy group GDF-Suez, will challenge a 250-million-euro windfall tax the government plans to impose on nuclear power generators, a spokesman said Wednesday. "We will ask the Constitutional Court to annul this tax which we consider to be discriminatory and disproportionate," Electrabel spokesman Guy Dellicour told AFP. The Belgian parliament p ... read more
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    Areva, Mitsubishi announce nuclear fuel tie-up
    Tokyo (AFP) Dec 22, 2008
    Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and France's Areva on Monday announced a capital tie-up in nuclear fuel production, predicting that the market for atomic energy will keep growing. The major French nuclear energy company will buy a 30 percent stake in Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel Co., in which Mitsubishi Heavy will be the top shareholder with 35 percent stake, they said, confirming a Sunday ... more

    US Bechtel wins Egypt nuclear power contract
    Cairo (AFP) Dec 22, 2008
    The 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, 2008
    German 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, 2008
    French 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, 2008
    Japan'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

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    Key Challenges And Issues Facing The US Nuclear Energy Outlook
    New York NY (SPX) Dec 17, 2008
    Nuclear power plays a major role in the US energy industry as the country, after coal and natural gas, produces its maximum amount of electricity from nuclear power plants. Oil and hydropower are the next biggest sources of energy. But the US heavily depends on imported uranium for its nuclear power industry. And with China, India and Russia planning for massive deployments in nuclear ... more

    Russia, Argentina sign cooperation deals
    Moscow (AFP) Dec 10, 2008
    The 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, 2008
    Russia 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, 2008
    India'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, 2008
    The 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

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    Iran proposes joint nuclear plants with Gulf states
    Tehran (AFP) Nov 30, 2008
    Iran on Sunday proposed developing nuclear power plants jointly with neighbouring Arab states in the Gulf, amid international pressure on Tehran to halt its sensitive atomic work. "I suggest that countries in the region put on their agenda the creation of a consortium to build and develop light-water nuclear plants," said Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, the head of Iran's atomic energy organisation. ... more

    Jordan, China sign nuclear protocol
    Amman (AFP) Nov 24, 2008
    China 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, 2008
    The 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, 2008
    Police 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

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