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France urges world to turn to nuclear powerParis (AFP) March 8, 2010 France urged international financial bodies to finance a new era of global nuclear power on Monday and pitched its own reactor technology as the model to follow. Welcoming delegates from 60 energy-hungry nations to a conference in Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy said civil nuclear power had been unfairly passed over for World Bank development loans. He called on world and regional financial bodies to finance new nuclear projects in developing countries, and announced that France would set up an ... read more |
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Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Feb 23, 2010While 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 countr ... more 
Vienna (AFP) Feb 23, 2010Iran is ready to buy fuel for a nuclear reactor or swap its own stockpile of low-enriched uranium for the fuel, but on its own territory, it said in a letter to the UN atomic watchdog obtained by AFP on Tuesday. "I would like to inform the agency, on behalf of my government, that the Islamic Republic of Iran is still seeking to purchase the required fuel in cash," Tehran's enovy to the Inter ... more 
Dubai (AFP) Feb 23, 2010Hans Blix, a former UN nuclear watchdog head and chief weapons inspector in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, is to head an advisory board for the United Arab Emirates nuclear programme, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Blix will chair the International Advisory Board, a nine-member body that will "provide the UAE nuclear programme with the expertise and knowledge of a highly select group of internation ... more |
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France's Areva gets Jordan exclusive uranium mining rightsAmman (AFP) Feb 21, 2010 Energy-poor Jordan on Sunday signed an agreement with France's nuclear giant Areva giving it exclusive uranium mining rights, during a visit by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon. Fillon and his Jordanian counterpart Samir Rifai attended the signing of the agreement which will grant Areva the exclusive right to extract and mine uranium in the central parts of Jordan. Jordan, which is poor in energy and water resources, is seeking to develop nuclear energy to generate power and desalinate wate ... read more |
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