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Iraq to create nuclear energy commission
Baghdad (AFP) April 9, 2009Iraq plans to create an atomic energy agency nearly three decades after Israeli bombers destroyed a reactor being built by the late dictator Saddam Hussein, the government spokesman said on Thursday. "The government has decided to create a national nuclear energy commission that will be responsible for controlling nuclear activities in the country and assuring they are in line with internati ... more Japan quake-hit nuke plant set to restart soon: official 
Tokyo (AFP) April 9, 2009The world's largest nuclear power plant in Japan is set to resume operations soon, two years after a strong earthquake caused a radioactive leak there, an official said Thursday. Despite some local opposition, Tokyo has given the go-ahead for a test run of a reactor at the plant -- seen as a de facto resumption of the facility. The agreement of local communities is the last hurdle to a resta ... more Kazakhstan may host nuclear fuel bank: president 
Astana (AFP) April 6, 2009Kazakhstan is prepared to host a nuclear fuel bank from which countries could purchase fissile material for peaceful energy use, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Monday. "If a nuclear fuel bank for nuclear energy was created, then Kazakhstan would consider hosting it," Nazarbayev said. Nazarbayev floated the idea -- aimed at providing nuclear power to developing states -- at ... more Greenpeace Co-Founder Spruiks Benefits Of New Nuclear Power 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2009As Wisconsin state lawmakers consider repealing the moratorium on nuclear energy, Dr. Patrick Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder and current Co-Chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition (CASEnergy), addressed a joint committee in the Wisconsin State Legislature. Dr. Moore testified before the Wisconsin Senate Commerce, Utilities, Energy, and Rail Committee and the House Energy and Utilities ... more Turbine fault closes Russian nuclear power station: report 
Moscow (AFP) April 3, 2009Russian officials shut down the nuclear power station at Kalinin, in the northwest Tver region of Russia, because of a faulty turbine, the Interfax agency reported Friday, citing officials at the station. The number two block was shut down on Thursday because of a problem with the turbine, said the station's director Leonid Martynovchenko, the agency reported. It would back up and connec ... more |
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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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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 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
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