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Strategic Cooperation Central To Nuclear Waste Disposal In EuropeBrussels, Belgium (SPX) Feb 23, 2010 While in the US the Obama administration has said it will abandon the nuclear waste disposal project at Yucca Mountain and has set up a "blue-ribbon" commission on America's future management of nuclear waste, in Europe, two countries (Sweden and Finland) have already selected a disposal site for nuclear waste and France will specify a location by 2013. In a number of other European countries (e.g. Switzerland and UK), geological disposal is the reference management option and things are moving fo ... read more |
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Tehran (AFP) Feb 17, 2010Iran will not suspend its sensitive high level enrichment in return for radioisotopes as offered in a letter by three world powers to the UN atomic watchdog, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. "It is not at all rational to say that Iran should not produce (isotopes and uranium) and stop its (enrichment) plant and that they will provide its needed medicine," ministry spokesman Ramin Mehm ... more 
Paris (UPI) Feb 17, 2009 French energy giant EDF is eager to extend the lifetime of its nuclear power plants from 40 years to 60 years but the move could require massive investments. The head of France's nuclear safety authority, Andre-Claude Lacoste, this week warned that EDF would have to modernize most of its reactors to have their lifetime extended. Such a modernization, Lacoste told the Financial Ti ... more 
Geneva (AFP) Feb 16, 2010Iran wants to build up its nuclear energy programme and provide power plants and nuclear fuel to its neighbours, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday. Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary general of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, said Iran wanted to break through Western reluctance to supply the Middle East with a much-needed energy source for when oil supplies dwindle. "We are ... more |
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IAEA board elects new chairmanVienna (AFP) Feb 12, 2010 The UN atomic watchdog's board of governors elected Friday a new chairman as new controversy raged over Iran's disputed nuclear drive. The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-emmber board voted for Malaysian envoy, Muhammad Shahrul Ikram Yaakob, by consensus as its new chairman at a special meeting here, diplomats who attended the closed-door session said. No other topic, such as Iran, was discussed, the diplomats said. Yaakob takes over from his fellow countryman Mohd Arshad bin Manzo ... read more |
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