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Japan signs nuclear energy deal with Jordan
Tokyo (AFP) April 14, 2009Japan agreed on Tuesday to provide Jordan with support for its nuclear energy programme as the Middle East state plans to launch its first atomic power plant in 2017, officials said. The five-year accord was signed in Tokyo as Jordan's King Abdullah II was making a three-day trip to the Japanese capital, said an official of Japan's energy agency. Under the deal, which can be extended for ... more Russia must build 26 nuclear plants: Putin 
Paris (AFP) April 15, 2009Russia must press on with a programme to build 26 new nuclear power stations despite the severe economic crisis affecting the country, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. "We must build 26 power stations," Putin told a government meeting on developing Russia's nuclear energy potential, Interfax news agency reported. "Between now and 2030, the share of nuclear power ... more World powers must accept a nuclear Iran: Larijani 
Tehran (AFP) April 12, 2009Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday world powers must accept the Islamic republic as a nuclear power as top officials vowed no let-up in Tehran's sensitive uranium enrichment drive. Larijani's comments came after the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - plus Germany offered to hold direct talks with ... more 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 |
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Ljubljana (AFP) April 1, 2009Slovenia shut down Wednesday its sole nuclear power plant for 30 days of regular maintenance work, nearly a year after an incident there triggered a Europe-wide alert, authorities said. The Krsko plant was shut down for five days last June when a loss was detected in the reactor's cooling system, which led to the first Europe-wide radiation alert since the system was put in place in the afte ... more Romania eyeing four possible sites for nuclear plant: report 
Bucharest (AFP) April 1, 2009Romania has shortlisted four different sites in the country for the construction of a second nuclear power plant by 2020, the outgoing head of its atomic agency said Wednesday. Valica Gorea, who headed the Romanian Nuclear Agency from 2005 until earlier this week, told the Newsin agency that out of a total 100 possible sites, locations in Brasov, Sibiu, Arad and Cluj were currently being co ... more China energy arm plans to up nuclear capacity: state media 
Beijing (AFP) March 30, 2009China's energy sector will table a plan to nearly double its 2020 nuclear power capacity goal and is urging firms to acquire uranium abroad to build a fuel reserve, state press said Monday. The country's energy administration wants to increase capacity to 75,000 megawatts, up from the 40,000 it had called for in a plan put forward in 2007, the Shanghai Securities News said. The revised p ... more 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 |
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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 Russia firm may join Toshiba nuclear power group 
Moscow (AFP) March 19, 2009A giant Russian nuclear energy firm, Atomenergoprom, may help build a uranium enrichment plant in Japan in a joint venture with Toshiba, the Russian company said in a statement Thursday. "Atomenergoprom and Toshiba Corporation have agreed to launch detailed studies of potential joint construction of a uranium enrichment plant based on Russian technology on the territory of Japan or another ... more Japan court rules nuke plant is quake-proof
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
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