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French utility EDF plans to sell another 20 percent stake in Britain's nuclear power operator British Energy as part of a five-billion-euro (7.35-billion-dollar) asset sale, a report said on Monday. The economic news daily La Tribune said the sale would also help meet EU conditions set in 2008 when Brussels cleared EDF's acquisition of British Energy. Such a sale would also mean that EDF ... read more 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 16, 2009Iran will not tolerate threats from world powers when they discuss Tehran's package of proposals on October 1, a top aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told AFP in an interview. Ali Akbar Javanfekr, media advisor to Ahmadinejad, also said that accepting the Islamic republic as a nuclear power was the "first step" towards normalising relations between Tehran, Washington and the West. ... more
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Bucharest (AFP) Sept 16, 2009Romania will chose the site for its second nuclear plant in early 2010 but will keep the decision secret in part to head off possible protests, officials said Wednesday. "The decision should be taken in January or February 2010", Pompiliu Budulan, general manager of Romanian nuclear energy company Nuclearelectrica told a press conference in Bucharest. Three locations are currently under ... more 
Sofia (AFP) Sept 17, 2009Bulgaria is considering the sale of part of its 51-percent share in a new nuclear power plant at Belene on the Danube, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said Thursday. Asked Thursday in an interview in the Standart newspaper if Bulgaria were seeking new private investors to enter the Belene project, Traikov replied: "Yes." Bulgaria's state-owned electricity utility NEK ... more 
New Delhi (UPI) Sep 15, 2009 India signed a civil nuclear energy agreement with uranium-rich Mongolia on Monday. The memorandum of understanding for "peaceful use of radioactive minerals and nuclear energy" was signed during Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia's state visit to India. According to a statement issued by the Mongolian presidency, Indian officials expressed a "willingness to cooperate in ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 09, 2009NASA has made a series of critical strides toward the development of new nuclear reactors the size of a trash can that could power a human outpost on the moon or Mars. Three recent tests at different NASA centers and a national lab have successfully demonstrated key technologies required for compact fission-based nuclear power plants for human settlements on other worlds. NASA's Mars ... more 
Paris (AFP) Sept 9, 2009Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended in an interview Wednesday his decision to cooperate with Iran to develop nuclear energy in his country. Chavez told Le Figaro newspaper that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was an ally and a friend, speaking three days after he signed agreements to strengthen cooperation during a visit to Tehran. "I thank him for the technology transfers ... more 
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Sep 9, 2009 Amid the gathering storm over Iran's controversial nuclear ambitions, the race is on among Arab states to build nuclear power plants of their own, opening up immense trade opportunities for the industrialized world as well as the specter of proliferation. The United States, Britain, France and Russia are competing for contracts in the nuclear energy bonanza that is emerging in the ... more |
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