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Italy takes first step to return to nuclear energy
Rome (AFP) Feb 24, 2009Italy took the first concrete step Tuesday towards returning to nuclear energy following a 21-year ban, reaching an accord with France to build state-of-the-art reactors. The Italian and French energy firms ENEL and EDF signed an accord for the construction in Italy of at least four European pressurised water nuclear reactors (EPRs) as part of an overall nuclear cooperation accord. The ... more Patience Pays Off With Methanol For Uranium Bioremediation 
Madison WI (SPX) Feb 25, 2009The legacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development has left ground water and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium. The uranium is transported through ground water as uranyl (U6+). In one bioremediation strategy, uranium immobilization in contaminated ground water and sediment may be achieved by the addition ... more Rio Tinto to explore for uranium in Jordan 
Amman (AFP) Feb 23, 2009Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto signed a deal on Monday with energy-parched Jordan to explore for uranium as part of the kingdom's efforts to pave the way for producing nuclear energy. "Under the 18-month agreement, the firm will fund the exploration of different areas of Jordan for uranium, thorium and zirconium," Khaled Tukan, head of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission, told the ... more Lunar Habitat Power System Begins Important Tests 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 23, 2009NASA today begins testing elements of a power system that is a potential candidate to provide the energy needed to support a human outpost on the moon. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has a one-of-a-kind test facility that enables engineers to simulate the nuclear power process of heat transfer from a reactor to a power converter - without using nuclear materials. ... more Iraq invites France back to build nuclear plant
Baghdad (AFP) Feb 22, 2009Electricity Minister Karim Wahid on Sunday invited France to help Iraq build a nuclear power plant, three decades after Paris constructed a reactor near Baghdad that was bombed by Israeli warplanes. "We have had very good relationships with French companies," the minister told AFP in an interview. "I am willing to enter into contacts with the French nuclear agency and to start to build a ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Feb 13, 2009Russia and Turkey are close to agreeing energy deals worth billions of dollars under which Moscow will build a nuclear power station and supply electricity for Ankara, a Russian official said on Friday. During a visit by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said the two sides were nearing agreement on Russia winning the nuclear energy contract worth up to ... more Most Swedes want nuclear power 
Stockholm (AFP) Feb 13, 2009Most Swedish people favour nuclear power as an energy source, a poll published Friday showed a week after the government decided it would not shut the country's 10 nuclear reactor plants. About 62 percent of 1,016 people polled between February 5 and 11 by the Dagens Nyheter daily approved nuclear power, while 28 percent opposed it and 10 percent were undecided. On Febrary 5, Sweden's go ... more Albania gets Croatia backing for nuclear plant 
Zagreb (AFP) Feb 10, 2009Plans by Albania to build a nuclear power plant were backed by Croatia as a project that could benefit the entire Balkan region at a meeting on Tuesday of the two countries' prime ministers. "We have agreed to work together, to invite other countries in the neighbourhood, Montenegro, Bosnia and others interested to work on this project," Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha told reporters. ... more Analysis: Nuclear revival in Sweden 
Berlin (UPI) Feb 6, 2009 Sweden has reversed a decision to phase out the country's nuclear reactors, following a trend in Europe that only a handful of countries are still ignoring. On Thursday the Swedish center-right government agreed on an ambitious new climate package, which will include nuclear energy, it says. The package not only includes bold measures to boost the share of renewables and reduce ... more Finnish Fortum seeks permit for a new nuclear reactor 
Helsinki (AFP) Feb 5, 2009Finnish utility group Fortum submitted an application to the government Thursday to build a new nuclear reactor in Finland, the company said. "Fortum has today ... submitted to the government of Finland an application for a decision-in-principle concerning the construction of a new nuclear power plant unit on the island of Haestholmen in Loviisa," the firm said in a statement. It added ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Feb 3, 2009French nuclear power giant Areva said it would on Wednesday sign a deal with Nuclear Power Corp of India to build at least two next-generation EPR nuclear reactors. A memorandum of understanding will be signed by Areva chief executive Anne Lauvergeon in New Delhi, said the spokesman for the state-controlled group, adding it would open the way for negotiations to build "at least two EPRs." ... more Wind Now Leads EU Power Sector 
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Feb 03, 2009In 2008, more wind power was installed in the EU than any other electricity generating technology. Statistics released by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) show that 43% of all new electricity generating capacity built in the European Union last year was wind energy, exceeding all other technologies including gas, coal and nuclear power. A total of 19,651 MW of new power ... more Protests as Philippine Congress deliberates nuclear bill 
Manila (AFP) Feb 2, 2009About a hundred environmentalists led a protest outside the Philippine Congress Monday to denounce a bill to revive a mothballed nuclear power plant at a cost of one billion dollars. The protesters, led by Greenpeace, erected a symbolic tombstone at the gates of the House of Representatives that they said was meant to remind lawmakers that the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) has long been ... more Nuclear energy use in EU limited: commissioner 
Ostrava, Czech Republic (AFP) Jan 30, 2009EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said Friday negative public opinion limited the use of nuclear energy in the bloc, but vowed to push it as far he could. "I am ready to go as far as we can go in the Union," he said at a conference in the Czech city of Ostrava. "But on the EU level, there is a different public opinion which should be respected that puts a limit to involvement of the ... more Japan to launch nuclear energy talks with SKorea, Vietnam: report 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 1, 2009Japan will shortly launch talks with South Korea and Vietnam on cooperation in developing nuclear energy, with its sights set on growing demand in emerging economies, a report said Sunday. The talks on nuclear power accords with South Korea and Vietnam will start as early as this spring and Japan is expected to conclude an agreement with Russia, the Nikkei business daily said. Demand for ... more
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