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The US state of Maryland on Friday approved a plan for France' EDF Group to take a stake in Constellation Energy Group, clearing the final hurdle for a new nuclear power plant in the state. US regulators earlier this month had green-lighted the joint venture plan for the French state-controlled company to acquire nearly half of Constellation's nuclear assets. The companies say the nuclea ... read more
Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2009The French government is raising doubts about the purchase of half of US nuclear energy company Constellation by state-controlled French operator EDF, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Citing government officials, the newspaper said that the government was keen for EDF to invest more in Europe as regulatory difficulties in the United States delay the 4.5-billion-dollar (3.0-billion-eur ... more
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Moscow, Russia (XNA) Oct 28, 2009The future Mars manned exploration projects will only become true by using nuclear energy, said President and Chief Designer of Russia's Energia Aerospace Corporation Vitaly Lopota here on Monday. Since current rocket technologies are not sufficient for the future exploration of Mars and the whole Solar system, and since no alternative energy resources have been found as of now, the only ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 28, 2009China has given final approval for the construction of a nuclear power plant with two powerful French-built reactors in southern Guangdong province, French power operator EDF announced Wednesday. China's State Council, or cabinet, said last week that construction of the Taishan plant, which will have third-generation European Pressurised Reactors (EPR) from French nuclear group Areva, could ... more 
Yerevan (AFP) Oct 27, 2009Armenia's parliament on Tuesday approved plans for the construction of a new reactor unit at the ex-Soviet republic's controversial Metzamor nuclear power station. Lawmakers voted in favour of plans to build a new 1,200-megawatt unit with a projected cost of four to five billion dollars (2.7 to 3.4 billion euros). Officials have said they expect the new reactor to be completed by 2017. ... more |
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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
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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