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The United States should consider following France's lead and ramping up use of nuclear power in an effort to contain global warming, a senior US senator helping craft climate change legislation said Tuesday. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is working with Democrat John Kerry on the bill, highlighted how France now derives 80 percent of its energy from nuclear power and is presently ... read more
Hanoi (AFP) Nov 17, 2009Vietnam is expected to take a key step towards meeting its burgeoning appetite for electricity by paving the way for its first nuclear power plant, but debate is still raging over the controversial project. Parliament in the fast-growing communist state is set to vote at the end of November on the project -- which lawmakers have been mulling for more than a decade -- after legalising the ... more
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Baghdad (AFP) Nov 16, 2009Vilified as a nuclear bomb-seeking threat to world peace before the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraq now wants access to civilian nuclear power for its economic and energy needs. Science and Technology Minister Raed Fahmi, in an interview with AFP, called for the international community to lift the Saddam-era UN resolutions which still stand in its path. ... more 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 16, 2009 Russia said the launch of a nuclear power plant it is building in Iran will be delayed, in a move observers say is linked to the slow progress in the nuclear conflict with the Islamic Republic. "We expect serious results by the end of the year, but the launch itself will not take place," Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko was quoted by the BBC as saying. "The engineers have to reach ... more 
Washington (AFP) Nov 16, 2009Two senators unveiled legislation Monday to double US nuclear energy output in 20 years and foster clean energy options with "mini-Manhattan Projects" named for the original US atomic bomb push. Democratic Senator Jim Webb and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, noting they cannot support a "cap-and-trade" climate change bill now churning through the Senate, said their plan could cost 20 ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) Nov 11, 2009 Dena, the German Energy Agency, has warned that key investments in the electricity sector are being scrapped because of the country's nuclear revival. The decision by the new German government to extend the lifetime of Germany's nuclear power plants beyond the planned phase-out by 2021 is destabilizing the electricity sector, Stephan Kohler, the head of Dena, has warned. ... more 
Ankara (AFP) Nov 10, 2009A Turkish court has blocked a 2008 tender won by a Russian company to build the country's first nuclear power plant, a civil society group that challenged the tender in court said on Tuesday. A consortium led by Atomstroyexport, Russia's state nuclear giant, was the only bidder in the tender to build and operate the plant but the government was yet to decide whether to award the project. ... more 
London (AFP) Nov 9, 2009Britain'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 ... more |
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