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 Hamburg, Germany (AFP) July 4, 2009 
Hundreds of traffic lights in the German city of Hamburg stopped working Saturday after a power cut caused by an incident at a nuclear power station, an energy company said. Around 1,500 of the 1,800 traffic signals in Germany's second biggest city suddenly blacked out and lights at shopping centres also failed. An incident at a transformer of the Kruemmel power station triggered the ... read more
Belgrade (AFP) July 3, 2009Serbia, home to a reactor once deemed the world's most dangerous, reached an agreement Friday on nuclear energy cooperation with the United Nations atomic agency, a report said. Signed by visiting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei and Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic, the memorandum is in addition to an existing agreement on inspections of nuclear ... more
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Seoul (AFP) July 5, 2009South Korea's state-run power company has bought a 17-percent stake in a Canadian uranium producer, securing a stable source of fuel for its nuclear power plants, a report said Sunday. Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) acquired the stake from Canada's Denison Mines Corp for 68 million dollars, Yonhap news agency said. KEPCO has also signed an agreement on a strategic alliance with the ... more 
Madrid (AFP) July 2, 2009Spain's government said Thursday it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power. Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian said the Garona plant in northern Spain, which had been designed to function only until 2011 and whose operating permit expires on Sunday, would now be allowed to ... more 
Seoul (AFP) July 2, 2009South Korea's foreign minister called Thursday for a new nuclear accord with the United States that would allow his country to reprocess plutonium for commercial civilian use. An accord signed by the two close allies in 1974 stops South Korea separating plutonium from spent fuel from its civilian nuclear power plants. The pact expires in 2012. "It's necessary to revise the US-SKorea ... more 
Helsinki (AFP) July 1, 2009Poor planning has led to rising costs and huge delays for a nuclear reactor going up in Finland, the country's biggest-ever construction project, officials said. The plant on the island of Olkiluoto in western Finland, to be run by Finnish nuclear power company TVO, was meant to start production this summer. But it is now not expected to open for another three years and Finnish ... more |
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London (AFP) June 22, 2009Britain and Jordan signed a nuclear cooperation pact here Monday, with Foreign Secretary David Miliband hailing the country's "transparent" approach to developing nuclear energy. Miliband inked the deal with Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh in the sidelines of a visit by King Abdullah II, saying Britain was committed to helping the energy-poor Arab country develop its civil nuclear program ... more 
Berlin (AFP) June 19, 2009Germany's economy minister on Friday ruled out building new nuclear power stations but said the life of some reactors might be extended and the development of alternative technologies stepped up. "We need limited extensions until we are able to work with sensible alternative technologies in an economical and environmentally friendly manner," Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg told the Sueddeutsche ... more 
Abuja (AFP) June 19, 2009Nigeria and Russia will sign a nuclear energy cooperation accord next Wednesday when President Dmitry Medvedev becomes the first Kremlin leader to visit Nigeria, officials said. A joint venture between Russian oil and gas giant Gasprom and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will also be signed during the one day visit, Nigerian presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi said ... more 
Alexandria VA (SPX) Jun 22, 2009News of a planned nuclear power plant in Ohio, the expected selection of four companies to receive federal loan guarantees to build the next generation of nuclear reactors and renewed support in Congress for nuclear energy were welcomed by the Reform Institute. The announcement of the new plant by Duke Energy in Piketon, Ohio, reports that UniStar Nuclear Energy, NRG Energy Inc., Scana ... more |
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