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Bulgaria seeks financing for new nuclear plant
Sofia (AFP) May 7, 2009Bulgaria is counting on loans from Russia, Germany and France to build a new four-billion-euro nuclear power plant on the Danube, Deputy Economy and Energy Minister Yavor Kuyumdjiev said Thursday. Funding for the plant, which was due to come from the Bulgarian state and German power giant RWE, was proving difficult, Kuyumdjiev said in an interview with the daily Klassa published Thursday. ... more Commentary: Is Pakistan another Iran? 
Washington, April 27, 2009 U.S. President Obama's foreign policy gurus are baffled by Pakistan's anarchic chaos that is sweeping one of the world's eight nuclear powers. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she had trouble understanding why the Pakistani army isn't moving to suppress Taliban insurgents inching closer to the capital city of Islamabad. After six decades of independence -- and half that time und ... more Areva seeks to block Siemens-Rosatom nuclear deal 
Paris (AFP) April 30, 2009French nuclear power group Areva said Thursday it had filed a request for arbitration to try to stop Germany's Siemens creating a rival venture with Russian group Rosatom. A spokeswoman for the French state-controlled group confirmed a press report that her company had taken the case to the International Chamber of Commerce, but declined to provide further details. A Siemens spokesman sa ... more Kazakhstan, China sign major nuclear power deal 
Almaty (AFP) April 29, 2009Kazakhstan on Wednesday signed a deal that would see it build nuclear power plants for China, as well as provide its energy-hungry neighbour with more than 24,000 tonnes of uranium. The deal between state nuclear agency Kazatomprom and the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPG) calls for the creation of a joint venture to build power plants for energy-hungry China, the Kazakh firm said ... more French nuclear plant evacuated after bomb scare 
Chinon, France (AFP) April 30, 2009A French nuclear power plant was evacuated Thursday after a bomb alert sparked by an anonymous telephone call, regional officials said. Police inspected all high-security parts of the plant in cental-western Chinon but found nothing unusual, the local prefecture said. A full search of the site was still ongoing late Thursday morning. All but the most essential staff, or 198 people, were ... more |
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Tallinn (AFP) April 16, 2009The Polish and Estonian prime ministers Thursday urged fellow EU member Lithuania to speed up work on its planned Ignalina new nuclear power station that is due to draw investment from the three states plus Lativa. "We are absolutely dissatisfied with the very slow pace of the preparations regarding the plan to build a new nuclear power station at Ignalina in Lithuania," Estonian Prime Minis ... more 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 Japan angered by fires at biggest nuclear plant
Tokyo (AFP) April 14, 2009Japan's government Tuesday chastised the operator of the world's largest nuclear plant for a string of fires that has hit the facility since it closed after an earthquake almost two years ago. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is scheduled to restart as early as this month but the nine blazes, the latest of which hit Saturday, have stoked fears about the safety of the seven-reactor ... 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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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 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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