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Russia May Build Belarus Nuclear Plant Without Tender
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 23, 2009Russia will be able to build a nuclear power plant in Belarus without a tender once the two ex-Soviet republics sign an inter-governmental agreement on civilian nuclear power use, Russia's Rosatom said Wednesday. Russia and Belarus agreed to sign the inter-governmental agreement in the first quarter of 2009 during talks on Wednesday between the Belarusian government and a Rosatom delegation ... more Siemens planning to give up stake in Areva: source 
Berlin (AFP) Jan 23, 2009German engineering group Siemens is planning to abandon its stake in Areva NP, the reactor subsidiary of French nuclear power company Areva, a source close to the matter said on Friday. Siemens currently holds a 34-percent stake in Areva NP. The source said the decision to pull out was not for "political" reasons. A Siemens spokesman declined to comment on the report but added that the ... more Siemens planning to give up stake in Areva: source 
Berlin (AFP) Jan 23, 2009German engineering group Siemens is planning to abandon its stake in Areva NP, the reactor subsidiary of French nuclear power giant Areva, a source close to the matter said on Friday. Siemens currently holds a 34-percent stake in Areva NP, estimated to be worth 2.0 billion euros (2.6 billion dollars). The source said the decision to pull out was not for "political" reasons. A Siemens spo ... more India welcomes Canada's involvement in its nuclear expansion: minister 
Ottawa (AFP) Jan 21, 2009India welcomes Canada's "strong involvement" in the expansion of its nuclear power capacity, Canada's Trade Minister Stockwell Day said Wednesday. Day, on a four-day visit to the world's most populous democracy, also indicated in a statement that Canada aims to finalize a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement with India "as soon as possible." "I was encouraged by the very positive resp ... more Russia May Build Belarus Nuclear Plant Without Tender
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2009Russia will be able to build a nuclear power plant in Belarus without a tender once the two ex-Soviet republics sign an inter-governmental agreement on civilian nuclear power use, Russia's Rosatom said Wednesday. Russia and Belarus agreed to sign the inter-governmental agreement in the first quarter of 2009 during talks on Wednesday between the Belarusian government and a Rosatom delegatio ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2009The United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday signed a deal to cooperate in civilian nuclear energy, which Washington says contrasts with Iran's defiant nuclear ambitions. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her UAE counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nayhan signed the document laying out what the US called "the legal framework" for civil nuclear cooperation under internat ... more Progress Energy Florida Signs Contract For New, Advanced-Design Nuclear Plant 
St. Petersburg FL (SPX) Jan 16, 2009Progress Energy Florida (PEF) has signed a contract with Westinghouse Electric Company LLC and The Shaw Group Inc.'s Power Group for the engineering, procurement and construction of two nuclear units for a proposed nuclear power plant in Levy County, Fla. The contract provides equipment, engineering and construction services for two 1,105-net megawatt (MWe) AP1000 reactors and is the next ... more Germany reports damage at nuclear waste storage site 
Berlin (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Germany's radiation protection office came in for criticism on Thursday after it revealed only this week that damage had been detected late last year at an old salt mine storing nuclear waste. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) discovered that chunks of the ceiling of a 750-metre (2,500-foot) deep chamber at the Asse site could crash on top of some of the 6,000 containers of r ... more Poland still backs Lithuania nuclear plan, with conditions: PM 
Warsaw (AFP) Jan 14, 2009Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk Wednesday reaffirmed Warsaw's backing for a four-nation nuclear power plant project in Lithuania, but said his country must get a major share of the output. "For Poland, these conditions must be met. The plant must have a capacity of more than 3,000 megawatts, and Poland must receive around 1,000 megawatts," Tusk told reporters at a joint press conference wi ... more German groups join forces in British nuclear sector 
Berlin (AFP) Jan 14, 2009German energy giants RWE and EON said Wednesday they had joined forces to build and develop new nuclear power stations in Britain. "Developing new nuclear power stations requires a substantial investment, and RWE and EON will together contribute the financial stability and balance sheet strength required to support a programme of this scale," the firms said. The companies hold stakes in ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Jan 11, 2009Cuts in Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine have reignited interest in Europe about using nuclear energy as an alternative to hydrocarbons, sparking environmentalists' ire. "On nuclear energy, this crisis will have consequences for the way we consider energy security in all EU countries," said Czech Energy Minister Martin Riman, whose country holds the bloc's rotating presidency. ... more Niger picks France's Areva to operate giant uranium mine: company 
Paris (AFP) Jan 5, 2009French nuclear energy group Areva said on Monday it had been awarded a licence to operate a uranium mine in Nigerm which it described as the biggest in Africa and the second biggest in the world. The agreement foresees Areva holding a 66.65 percent stake in the company operating the mine, with the Niger state holding the remainder. Production is set to begin in 2012 and will enable Niger ... more Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal 
Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 02, 2009The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. And "clean coal," which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequ ... more Japan to reimport nuclear fuel from France: source 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 29, 2008Japan plans to start buying back reprocessed nuclear waste from France as early as April as the resource-poor country looks to start using the fuel for the first time, a French company source said Monday. Japan ships spent nuclear fuel to France but it would mark the first time since 2001 it has received back reprocessed fuel amid safety concerns by local residents. French nuclear giant ... more Electrabel says will challenge windfall tax 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 24, 2008Electrabel, 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 ... more
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