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 Washington (AFP) July 15, 2009 
The United States hoped Wednesday that India will soon announce the location of two sites for US firms to build multi-billion dollar nuclear power plants, in line with a landmark deal struck last year. The announcement could be made when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Mumbai and New Delhi from Friday through Monday, according to Robert Blake, her point man for relations with In ... read more
Sydney (AFP) July 15, 2009Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett on Wednesday defended his approval of a new uranium mine, as leading climate campaigner Al Gore said nuclear power had a limited future. Garrett, once an anti-nuclear campaigner and frontman of left-wing rock outfit Midnight Oil, on Tuesday signed off on a new uranium project at the Four Mile Mine, north of Adelaide city. The move stands in ... more
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Vilnius (AFP) July 14, 2009Japan's Mitsubishi, among the world's leading manufacturers of nuclear reactors, is interested in working on Lithuania's planned nuclear energy plant, the Baltic nation's prime minister said Tuesday. "Their interest in our plan is important for us," Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said, quoted by the Baltic News Service. "We think that we can use this to develop wider contacts as well," ... more 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 15, 2009The withdrawal of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste. In an article in the July 10 issue of Science, University of Michigan geologist Rodney Ewing and Princeton University nuclear physicist Frank von Hippel argue that, although federal agencies should set ... more 
Hamburg, Germany (UPI) Jul 10, 2009 The reputation of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall has been tarnished by a series of incidents at nuclear plants all over Europe. Vattenfall has a PR problem after several incidents at its nuclear power stations. Tuomo Hatakka, the head of Vattenfall Europe, called them a "bitter setback for all the efforts we made with regards to our safety culture over the last two years. We are ... more 
Berlin (AFP) July 9, 2009The Swedish operator of the aging German nuclear power station Kruemmel revealed on Thursday more problems at the plant, which has been shut down for emergency repairs since the weekend. All 80,000 fuel rods at the plant near Hamburg will be examined from Friday because "it looks as if one or several of the rods in the reactor is defective," said Ernst Michael Zuefle, head of operator ... more |
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Stockholm (AFP) July 8, 2009Sweden's nuclear safety authority has put the country's biggest nuclear power plant under observation after a series of incidents that could endanger security, it said on Wednesday. The Ringhals plant in southwestern Sweden has four reactors and produces about 20 percent of all electricity used in Sweden. "The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) has observed a series of shortcomings ... more 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 07, 2009The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) has issued a key approval for a proposed new nuclear energy facility at Calvert Cliffs in southern Maryland, a project that would provide 1,600 megawatts of new, emissions-free electricity, stimulate the region's economy and shape a more secure energy future for the state. The PSC issued the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) ... more 
Hamburg, Germany (AFP) July 4, 2009Hundreds 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 ... 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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