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 Taipei (AFP) Oct 20, 2009 
Taiwan wants to extend the life of its oldest nuclear power plant for another 20 years, the government said Tuesday, triggering alarm among activists who fear it could put public safety at risk. State-owned Taiwan Power Company has asked to keep using the Chinshan plant, operational since 1978 in a coastal area of north Taiwan, after the licenses of its two reactors expire in 2018 and 2019 ... read more
Red Wing MN (SPX) Oct 21, 2009The Prairie Island Indian Community has called on President Barack Obama to follow the law and deliver on the federal government's decades-old mandate and promise to establish a permanent repository for the nation's commercial nuclear waste. The Tribe's urging comes after Congress approved the FY2010 Energy and Water Appropriations bill which cuts funding for the proposed national nuclear ... more
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Paris (AFP) Sept 25, 2009Enriching uranium for nuclear power -- or building a weapon of mass destruction -- lies at the heart of the controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear programme. The point of enrichment -- which is to be discussed again at talks between Iran and the western powers in Vienna on Wednesday -- is to boost the ratio in uranium of the uranium-235 isotope, which splits in a chain reaction and releases ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2009The United States on Tuesday hit back at Pakistani critics of a giant aid package, rejecting charges it was violating the nuclear power's sovereignty in the fight against Islamic extremism. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi rushed back to Washington just days after a previous visit as his nation's powerful military led a nationalist backlash against the five-year, 7.5 billion-d ... more 
Berlin (AFP) Oct 15, 2009German 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 ... more |
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Columbia, Mo. (UPI) Oct 8, 2009 U.S. electrical engineers say they are developing a smaller, lighter and more efficient battery that uses a nuclear energy source. Much attention has been given to making batteries smaller and more powerful, but scientists say problems can arise when such batteries become heavier than the devices they power. "To provide enough power, we need certain methods with high energy ... more 
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Oct 08, 2009The Shaw Group has announced it has been awarded a new six-year contract with AmerenUE, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Ameren, to provide nuclear maintenance services to the Callaway nuclear power plant, located near Fulton, Mo. AmerenUE is an associate member of the Utilities Service Alliance, Inc., consisting of 14 utilities operating 31 reactors capable of producing in excess of ... more  
Geneva (AFP) Oct 5, 2009Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday urged nuclear powers to cut their own arsenals and military might or face the dangerous emergence of more budding nuclear states like Iran and North Korea. Gorbachov said at a lecture organised by the United Nations that the origim of current tensions could be found in the decline in disarmament efforts between the nuclear powers after the col ... more |
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