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 Berlin (AFP) Oct 15, 2009 
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's new coalition has agreed to reverse an earlier decision to abandon nuclear power by 2020, an official involved in talks on a new government programme said Thursday. Germany decided under ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2000 to mothball all reactors by 2020, but Merkel and her new coalition partners pledged in their election campaigns to extend the life of ... read more
Paris (UPI) Oct 14, 2009 Paris is demanding answers from EDF after allegations surfaced that the state-owned energy giant is dumping nuclear waste in Siberia. A documentary broadcast on TV channel Arte Tuesday showed footage of what appeared to be nuclear waste out in the Russian countryside. The report claims that EDF, the world's largest operator of nuclear power plants, ships 13 percent of its spent ... more
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Sydney (AFP) Oct 14, 2009 Australia has asked India to take part in joint military exercises but is standing firm against exporting uranium for the Asian country's nuclear energy programme, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said. Speaking in New Delhi on Tuesday, Smith said Australia wanted to strengthen security cooperation with India and was ready to place it in the "front rank of our bilateral relationships". But ... more 
Brussels (UPI) Oct 13, 2009 Belgium has decided to keep its nuclear power plants running for another decade, in a further sign that a nuclear revival is taking place in Europe. Energy and Climate Minister Paul Magnette said Monday that the government had decided to delay the nuclear phase-out that was scheduled to start in 2015. "The government has decided to delay by 10 years the first stage of phasing ... more 
Canberra, Australia (UPI) Oct 13, 2009 A Nielsen poll published Tuesday shows 49 percent of Australians support nuclear power, saying it should be considered as an alternative source of energy to help combat global warming, while 43 percent are completely opposed. The finding marks a shift of public opinion from 2006, when a Newspoll showed just 38 percent favored nuclear power and 51 percent opposed the idea. Despite ... more |
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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 
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 |
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