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Old Lithuanian nuke plant closed under EU dealVilnius (AFP) Dec 31, 2009 Lithuania Thursday shut down its Soviet-era nuclear plant under an EU deal in a move set to drive up electricity prices amid an economic crisis and leave it counting on ex-master Moscow for power. "At 11:00 pm (2100 GMT) everything went offline. It all went according to plan," Viktor Sevaldin, director of the 26-year-old plant, told AFP by telephone. The plant, located in Visaginas in eastern Lithuania, provided 70 percent of the Baltic state's electricity. It gradually went offline from 8:00 pm (1800 GMT) Thursday, displaying its decreasing output on its website. ... read more |
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Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Dec 29, 2009 The nuclear reactor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won't be converted to a safer fuel for at least five years, authorities said. The university's 50-year-old reactor is to be switched from highly enriched uranium to low enriched uranium, which cannot be used to make nuclear weapons. The safer fuel, however, will require at least five years for design and testing to ... more 
Mumbai (AFP) Dec 29, 2009Two people were killed when a fire broke out at a nuclear research centre near India's financial capital Mumbai, but authorities ruled out any radioactive leakage, a report said Tuesday. The fire broke out in a chemical laboratory at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), situated on the outskirts of the western city, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said. "The fire broke out in the ch ... more 
Seoul (UPI) Dec 28, 2009 South Korea won a landmark deal to build nuclear reactors for the United Arab Emirates, boosting calls for lifting Seoul's self-imposed ban on nuclear activities to tap bigger atomic reactor markets. A South Korea-led consortium beat U.S. and French rivals and clinched a $40 billion deal to build and operate four nuclear power plants in the United Arab Emirates, in one of the world's bi ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 21, 2009France 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 ... more 
Beirut (AFP) Dec 21, 2009Iran will pursue its nuclear drive in a "normal fashion" and will produce itself the fuel necessary for its Tehran medical reactor, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday. "Nuclear activity will continue in a normal fashion," Mottaki told a news conference as he wrapped up a brief visit to Lebanon. "Concerning the fuel needed for the Tehran reactor ... Iran will produce ... more  
Paris (AFP) Dec 21, 2009French nuclear energy giant Areva said Monday it would supply Dubai with 11 electricity substations for 200 million euros (286 million dollars), as the emirate grapples with a serious debt crisis. "The order is the largest ever for Areva T&D (Transmission and Distribution) in the United Arab Emirates," Areva said in a statement. Philippe Guillemot, chief executive of Areva T&D, called it ... more |
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