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 Belgrade (AFP) June 10, 2009 
Serbia will ship to Russia a huge consignment of nuclear waste from a reactor once considered one of the world's most dangerous, officials said Wednesday. The three tonnes of waste was composed mostly of spent nuclear fuel but also some enriched uranium that had been stored at the idle Vinca reactor, some 16 kilometres (nine miles) east of Belgrade, they said. "It would be difficult to ... read more 
Cairo (AFP) June 4, 2009US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the nuclear showdown with Iran had reached a decisive point but that Tehran had the right to peaceful nuclear power if it abided by international treaties. Obama, who broke with former US policy of isolating Tehran, said it would be hard to "overcome decades of mistrust" but he had made clear to Iran's leaders and people that the United States ... more
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Stockholm (AFP) June 3, 2009One of the world's first permanent nuclear waste storage sites that can house highly radioactive waste for more than 100,000 years will be built in Sweden, project officials said on Wednesday. The waste will be buried in tunnels drilled 500 metres (1,640 feet) underground in the bedrock in Forsmark, near the town of Oesthammar 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Stockholm, the Swedish ... more 
Moscow (AFP) June 2, 2009Russia and Oman have signed an agreement on nuclear energy cooperation that could see the two countries building reactors and counducting research together, Russia's atomic agency said on Tuesday. The document was signed by the deputy head of Rosatom, Nikolai Spasski, and the secretary general of Oman's foreign ministry, Badr Al-Busaidi. Oman set up a civilian nuclear energy agency last ... more 
Astana (AFP) June 1, 2009The recently imprisoned former head of Kazakhstan's state nuclear power agency stole the majority of the Central Asian nation's uranium deposits, security officials alleged on Monday. Former Kazatomprom head Mukhtar Dzhakishev and other company officials illegally shifted ownership of uranium mines worth tens of billions of dollars through a network of offshore companies, the KNB security ... more 
Sofia (AFP) May 29, 2009Russia has agreed to lend Bulgaria 3.8 billion euros (5.4 billion dollars) to build a 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant at Belene on the Danube, the Dnevnik daily newspaper reported on Friday. In its online edition, the newspaper quoted Bulgarian Energy Holding official Ivan Atanasov, who is in charge of the Belene project, as saying that Russia had "opened procedures" to provide Bulgaria ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) May 22, 2009Global resources giant BHP Billiton announced plans Friday to develop a major new uranium mine in Western Australia after the state lifted a ban on production of the nuclear fuel. The company said it planned to begin producing uranium at its Yeelirrie site in 2014, boosting Australian output of the fuel as demand for nuclear energy grows in countries such as China and India. "Current pla ... more 
Astana (AFP) May 21, 2009Kazakhstan on Thursday put forward a former industry and trade minister to head the Central Asian state's nuclear power firm, Kazatomprom. Prime Minister Karim Masimov told reporters in the capital Astana that Vladimir Shkolnik was the government's choice to head the key state company, making his confirmation a virtual certainty. "We will recommend that Vladimir Sergeyevich (Shkolnik) he ... more 
Madrid (AFP) May 20, 2009A think tank of Spain's governing Socialist Party Wednesday called for all of the country's nuclear plants to be closed by 2050, when it said all energy sources should be renewable. The Ideas Foundation said Spain should be "free of nuclear energy in 2050" and have "100-percent renewable energy." "Renewable energies could replace current nuclear production in less than a decade," the exp ... more 
Warsaw (AFP) May 19, 2009Poland has named its first nuclear energy official, the government said Tuesday, after announcing plans to build one or two nuclear power plants to meet the country's growing energy needs. Prime Minister Donald Tusk named Helena Trojanowska to oversee nuclear energy development. Until her appointment she ran the nuclear energy department of the Polish Energy Group, a state-owned electr ... more |
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