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 London (AFP) Nov 9, 2009 
Britain's government named 10 sites where new nuclear power stations could be built Monday, while unveiling changes to planning rules aimed at speeding up approval for energy projects. Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said the move would help secure a new generation of low carbon energy for British homes in coming decades, as part of the fight against climate change. The 10 nuclear ... read more
Paris (AFP) Nov 9, 2009Japanese high tech giant Toshiba and US conglomerate General Electric are bidding for a unit of Areva, the French nuclear power firm, Areva said Monday of a deal that according to press reports could be worth up to nearly 7.5 billion dollars. A third offer for Areva's Transmission and Distribution unit is a joint bid by French engineering groups Alstom and Schneider Electric. ... more
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Nairobi (AFP) Nov 7, 2009Kenya hopes to build its first nuclear power plant in the next five years with help from France, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Saturday. "We want to establish a nuclear plant. We want to start with a plant of the average of between 1,000 and 2,000 Megawatts (output) and we are looking at five years from now," Odinga said in an interview with AFP. Odinga said nuclear power was one ... more 
London (AFP) Nov 7, 2009Britain could face a serious energy crisis unless plans to build new nuclear power stations are implemented, the energy minister revealed in an interview Saturday. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband told The Daily Telegraph newspaper that new planning guidelines due out on Monday would reduce the time it would take to get a new generation of nuclear power plants into operation. ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 5, 2009A Japanese nuclear power plant on Thursday started using recycled mixed-oxide or MOX fuel from a controversial shipment from France that arrived in the country amid protests in May. A reactor at the Genkai nuclear plant in western Saga prefecture was activated after being loaded with MOX, a blend of plutonium and reprocessed uranium, said a spokesman of the plant's operator. ... more |
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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 
Paris (AFP) Oct 26, 2009French construction group Eiffage and British peer Carillion have signed a partnership agreement under which they will jointly bid to build nuclear power plants in Britain, Eiffage said Monday. The two groups have worked together in the past, notably on the cross-Channel tunnel and the Copenhagen metro system. The British government last year made clear its intention to renovate the ... more 
Bucharest (AFP) Oct 26, 2009Environmental group Greenpeace won a court case in Romania on Monday that could force the authorities there to make public a list of potential locations for the construction of a nuclear power plant. The economy ministry must "communicate the requested information to the claimant," a ruling published on the Bucharest court's website said. The ministry is to pay penalties if it does not ... more |
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