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 Dubai (AFP) Oct 5, 2009 
The United Arab Emirates has adopted a civilian nuclear energy law that paves the way for contracts worth 41 billion dollars for the construction of power plants, WAM news agency reported on Monday. The law, issued on Sunday by presidential decree, prohibits the enrichment of uranium, the process by which the substance is transformed into nuclear fuel and atomic bombs, the official agency re ... read more
Colmar, France (AFP) Oct 3, 2009Thousands of people demonstrated in eastern France on Saturday to demand the closure of the country's oldest nuclear power plant amid a huge police presence. Organisers said more than 10,000 people, including from Spain, Italy and neighbouring Germany and Switzerland, rallied peacefully in Colmar while police said 3,500 took part in the protest against the Fessenheim nuclear plant. "This ... more
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New Delhi (UPI) Sep 30, 2009 India aims to boost its nuclear energy capacity by 12,000 percent by 2050. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in making the announcement Tuesday at a New Delhi conference on peaceful uses of nuclear power, predicted that India could produce 470 gigawatts of nuclear power. That would make India the largest nuclear energy producer in the world, surpassing the United States, which now ... more 
Vilnius (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Lithuania said Wednesday it aimed in the first six months of 2010 to sign a key investment deal in a four-nation nuclear power project to replace a Soviet-era plant set to shut down within months. "The plan is to sign a contract with the strategic investor in the first half of 2010," Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas told reporters, referring to the as-yet unchosen player that will steer the ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2009China has approved the construction of a new nuclear plant in its eastern coastal region, in the latest step in Beijing's plan to include more clean energy in the country's consumption mix. The State Council, or cabinet, issued a licence last week for the building of the first phase of the Haiyang nuclear power station in Shandong province, the State-owned Assets Supervision and ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Sept 21, 2009French 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 ... 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 
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 |
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