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Obama foe sees cooperation on trade, energyWashington (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 President Barack Obama can count on help from his Republican foes in the US Congress to help boost free trade and expand nuclear energy production, the party's top senator said Thursday. Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell welcomed Obama's call in his State of the Union speech to "strengthen our trade relations" with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, and build "a new generation" of nuclear plants. "Republicans agree with the need to increase trade and with the need to ratify trade agreeme ... read more |
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Paris (UPI) Jan 25, 2009 Reports have surfaced that French utility EDF will not sell its British power grid. The head of EDF, Henri Proglio, "has always been opposed to this project that was initiated by (former EDF CEO) Pierre Gadonneix," reports Wansquare.com, citing British banking sources. Proglio "is set to announce soon that he is ending it." The offers EDF received were too low, the site said. ED ... more 
Washington (UPI) Jan 25, 2009 The National Nuclear Security Administration says it has authorized the start-up of the new Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility. NNSA officials said the opening of the "ultra-secure" warehouse facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex - near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee - marks a major milestone in its efforts to create a modern, 21st century nuclear secu ... more 
Seoul (UPI) Jan 21, 2009 After closing 2009 with a $20 billion order from the United Arab Emirates to build nuclear power plants, South Korea aims to ink more deals. "We're in serious talks with Turkey, Jordan and Malaysia and we've attracted China and India's interest," Chung Kun Mo, a nuclear adviser to state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp., told Bloomberg Wednesday. "There are many countries k ... more |
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Italy won't identify nuclear power sites till 2011: officialRome (AFP) Jan 20, 2010 Italy, which plans to reintroduce atomic power after a ban dating from the Chernobyl disaster, will announce sites for new nuclear plants in 2011, an official said Wednesday. Under-Secretary for Economic Development Stefano Saglia said the sites in the controversial programme would be chosen in accord with regional governments, the ANSA news agency reported. The centre-left governments of Naples' Campania region and that of Apulia, also in the south, have already said they would not ho ... read more |
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