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30 years after Three Mile Island, US eyes nuclear rebirth
Washington (AFP) March 27, 2009Thirty years after the accident at Three Mile Island shattered Americans' trust in nuclear power, lawmakers are touting a nuclear rebirth as a safe, green way to wean the United States off foreign oil. "We have the enormously powerful opportunity for a nuclear renaissance in our country. We need to pursue that aggressively and effectively to meet all of our energy and environmental goals ... more Fossil-Based Electricity Generation Declines As Renewables Grow 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2009According to the latest figures published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its "Electric Power Monthly" report non-hydro renewable sources of electricity enjoyed double-digit growth during the past year while coal, natural gas, and petroleum experienced notable declines and nuclear power remained stagnant. Specifically, EIA reports that net electricity generation in t ... more Chairman of French nuclear group resigns: letter 
Paris (AFP) March 25, 2009Frederic Lemoine, the chairman at French nuclear energy group Areva, has tendered his resignation after accepting a position at another major French group, an internal document showed Wednesday. "I have decided to accept the chairmanship of another quoted French company," Lemoine wrote to the secretary of the supervisory board Bernard de Gouttes in a letter obtained by AFP. "I have the ... more EU's Baltic states still 'islands' in power market 
Vilnius (AFP) March 24, 2009Five years since they joined the European Union, the bloc's Baltic states are still barely plugged into its electricity network and remain hooked to the grid of their Soviet-era master Moscow. Limited moves to resolve the situation mean the role of Russian power is set to strengthen from the end of this year, when a key but aging nuclear power plant in Lithuania closes down under a deal with ... more Sweden's opposition parties pledge end to nuclear power 
Stockholm (AFP) March 22, 2009Leaders of Sweden's opposition party on Sunday pledged to phase out nuclear power if they win the 2010 elections, just weeks after the government backed to keep the country's 10 reactors running. "We want to phase out the nuclear power stations ... replacing them with renewable energy," wrote the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Lefts in a joint piece published in the daily Dagens Nyhete ... more |
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Ankara (AFP) March 17, 2009Greenpeace said seven of its activists had been detained Tuesday as they scaled a tall building in Turkey's capital to protest government plans to build the country's first nuclear power plant. Two campaigners suspended themselves from the top of the building, but police stopped them unfurling a banner reading "Nuclear Crime" with a picture of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Energy M ... more Iranian President Declares His Country A Space And Nuclear Power 
Tehran, Iran (RIA Novosti) Mar 14, 2009Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that pressure from Western powers trying to keep Iran in economic isolation have in fact spurred the country to become a space and nuclear power. "Had you not been bad-tempered and blocked the way, the Iranian nation would not have been present in space, and would not have become a nuclear power," Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as s ... more Analysis: Nuke waste problem unsolved 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 13, 2009 In Europe, nuclear power is undergoing a revival, but the problem of how to best store highly radioactive nuclear waste is still not solved. The most recent country to join the nuclear revival is Sweden. In February Stockholm reversed a decision from 1980 to phase out the country's nuclear reactors. Over the past few years, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Britain ... more Vattenfall, RWE, E.ON, EDF in running for Baltic nuclear plant 
Vilnius (AFP) March 12, 2009Swedish energy group Vattenfall, Germany's RWE or E.ON, or France's EDF could win the construction contract for a four-nation nuclear power plant in Lithuania, officials said here Thursday. Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas singled out the four market giants but told reporters that "other large electricity companies" could also be in the running. Sekomkas also warned that the plant was un ... more Obama's energy chief announces nuclear waste panel 
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009US Energy Secretary Steven Chu backed a new generation of nuclear power Wednesday, and said a panel of experts would report back this year on the best long-term storage of radioactive waste. The Nobel laureate scientist, chosen by President Barack Obama to lead an ambitious drive for renewable energy, said nuclear power was also an "essential part of our energy mix" along with cleaner coal a ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) March 4, 2009Siemens has become the latest German firm to up its game and tap into the renewed interest in nuclear power being seen all across the world -- but not in the company's own backyard. The Munich-based industrial giant said late Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture with Russian firm Rosatom that they hope will become the "world market leader" in nuclear te ... more Kuwait to establish nuclear energy commission 
Kuwait City (AFP) March 2, 2009The cabinet of the Gulf state of Kuwait on Monday approved legislation to establish a national commission for nuclear energy uses, an official statement said. The commission, to be headed by the prime minister, will design policies needed for a peaceful nuclear programme in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, a statement by the cabinet said. The legislation must be ... more Iran says no military agenda in nuclear plan 
Tehran, Iran (AFP) Feb 27, 2009Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Friday Tehran's atomic plans were not of military nature, urging Russia to complete Iran's long-delayed nuclear power plant. "In the Friday prayer sermon, we don't make false promises. Therefore I declare that Iran's nuclear plan is not to build weapons ... and we are ready to prove it in negotiations," he said in a sermon carried liv ... more Olmert warns Iran after nuclear plant completed 
Jerusalem (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Israel's outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert shot a thinly-veiled warning at Iran on Thursday after its arch-enemy announced the completion of its first nuclear power plant. "We are a strong country, a very strong country, and we have at our disposal (military) capacities the intensity of which are difficult to imagine," Olmert told public radio. "We have deployed enormous efforts to rei ... more Jordan, Russia sign nuclear deal 
Amman (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Russia, which is helping Iran build its first nuclear plant, inked a preliminary cooperation deal with Jordan on Thursday to pave the way for producing nuclear power in the energy-poor kingdom. Under the agreement, Russia will help Jordan, which imports around 95 percent of its energy needs, build power and desalination plants as well as research centres, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission head ... more
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