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A nuclear power plant in southeast England was shut down Tuesday after a small fire in the boiler annexe, the company that runs the complex said. Firefighters had extinguished the fire at the Dungeness B plant at Romney Marsh in Kent after staff raised the alarm shortly before midnight on Monday, a fire official said. "There was no risk to the public and there was no release of ... read more
Washington (AFP) Nov 24, 2009US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday they would finalize a landmark nuclear cooperation agreement that ends New Delhi's pariah status as a nuclear power. "I reaffirmed to the prime minister my administration's commitment to fully implement the US-India civil nuclear agreement which increases American exports and creates jobs in both countries," ... more
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Brasilia (AFP) Nov 23, 2009Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday urged his visiting Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to find a "just solution" with the West to Tehran's contested nuclear program. Lula, speaking in a joint media conference with Ahmadinejad, reiterated that Brazil backed Iran's declared quest for "peaceful nuclear energy in full respect of international accords." He appealed ... more  
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Nov 24, 2009In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions - the major cause of global warming - cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day. "It looks unlikely that there will be any substantial near-term departure from recently observed acceleration in carbon ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 21, 2009Russia and Kazakhstan signed plan for joint uranium production late Friday, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. Deputy chiefs of Russia's Rosatom and Kazakhstan's KazAtomProm nuclear producers signed the agreement on additional measures to boost cooperation in uranium production as well as construction of nuclear power stations in Kazakhstan, officials said. The details of the ... more |
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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 
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 |
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