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Belgian firm appeals nuclear tax: report
Brussels (AFP) March 28, 2009Belgian energy firm Electrabel launched a court challenge against a bid to levy hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) in windfall tax on nuclear power companies, a report said on Saturday. "The appeal was launched this week" in a Belgian constitutional court by Electrabel, a subsidiary of the French energy giant GDF Suez, the Belgian firm's spokesman Fernand Grifnee was quoted as saying by ... more Analysis: Armenia's nuclear power plant 
Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2009 Last year's record-high oil prices renewed worldwide interest in alternative forms of energy and gave nuclear power a new lease on life, particularly in countries bereft of hydrocarbon resources. While many in the West think of the former Soviet Union as an energy El Dorado, not all of its republics were blessed with abundant energy reserves. Armenia, unlike its neighbor Azerbaijan ... more 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 |
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Tokyo (AFP) March 18, 2009A court in Japan Wednesday ruled that the country's second largest nuclear power plant meets earthquake safety standards and can legally operate, backing the government over a residents' group. Three years ago a lower court ordered a shutdown of one reactor at the Shika nuclear plant, handing a victory to campaigners who argued that government safety rules underestimated the size of a quake ... more Britain offers Iran 'clear choice' on nuclear power 
London (AFP) March 17, 2009British Prime Minister Gordon Brown appealed Tuesday for Iran to end its uranium enrichment programme in return for international assistance in developing nuclear power. Brown said the Islamic republic had a "clear choice" between cooperating with the international community or facing tougher sanctions over its enrichment activities. A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, however, desc ... more Seven Greenpeace activists detained in Turkey nuclear demo 
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 |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 5, 2009 Unlike many other newly emerging oil-rich nations, Kazakhstan is not placing all its hopes on its hydrocarbon resources but seeking to diversify its energy exports to include uranium, adducing an increased demand for the fuel in coming decades from countries interested in nuclear power. Ultimately, however, having the silvery metal underwrite an increased percentage of the national economy mig ... more Iran says nuclear plant to start operating by Sept 
Tehran (AFP) March 4, 2009Iran said on Wednesday that its much-delayed nuclear power plant, where testing began last month, would start generating electricity by September 2009. The 1,000-megawatt Russian-built plant in the southern port city of Bushehr will first generate around 500 megawatts, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told parliament, the official IRNA news agency reported. "Since the fuel for the pow ... more Siemens teams up with Russia for slice of nuclear pie 
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
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