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France, China sign aviation, nuclear dealsBeijing (AFP) Dec 21, 2009 France and China on Monday hailed their reinvigorated ties, putting a spat over Tibet behind them and sealing a series of economic deals during a visit by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon. Fillon's high-profile visit came on the heels of the marathon climate change talks in Copenhagen, at which China came in for sharp criticism -- notably from the Europeans -- for rejecting any move to ... read more |
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Ottawa (AFP) May 28, 2009The Canadian government on Thursday moved to get out of the nuclear energy business, inviting bids for its commercial reactor division amid heady global demand for atomic energy. "Nuclear energy is an emission-free source of power that is experiencing a renaissance around the world," said Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt in a statement. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)'s ... more 
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 17, 2009Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed the United States on Thursday as an oil-addicted warmonger and insisted every nation have access to "clean and renewable energy sources", including nuclear. "For about a century, oil has constituted the basic and strategic components of US security foreign policy, the same role it played for the previous empires," Ahmadinejad said at the UN ... more 
Vienna (AFP) Dec 16, 2009Environmental organisation Greenpeace on Wednesday slammed Slovenia's plans to build a second reactor at its nuclear power plant in Krsko, where an incident triggered a Europe-wide alert last year. "It cannot be that Slovenia continues to operate -- and even wants to expand -- a dangerous nuclear reactor on its border to Austria," Greenpeace energy expert Jurrien Westerhof said in ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Dec 14, 2009North Korea is still seeking recognition as a nuclear power despite trying to normalise relations with the United States, South Korea's top military officer said Monday. "It is our assessment that North Korea has not altered its strategic goal of simultaneously securing the status of a nuclear state and the stability of its regime through the normalisation of North-US relations," General ... more 
Abuja (AFP) Dec 14, 2009The new head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, on Monday held talks here on future cooperation with Nigeria, which plans to build its first nuclear power plant with Russian assistance. Amano, 62, a Japanese diplomat, chose Nigeria as his first official visit since taking over as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on December 1. "I discussed future ... more 
Tehran (AFP) Dec 14, 2009Iran said on Monday it does not insist on exchanging its low-enriched uranium for fuel for a research nuclear reactor on its own territory after the United States bluntly dismissed the offer. "The Islamic republic does not insist on accepting its own proposal of exchanging 400 kilos of uranium on Kish" island in the Gulf, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying by the Fars ... more |
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