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Syria wants civilian nuclear energy: ministerParis (AFP) March 9, 2010 Syria, which has been investigated by the UN nuclear watchdog over its alleged attempt to build a secret nuclear reactor, would like to develop atomic energy, its government said Tuesday. Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told an international conference on civilian nuclear power in Paris that Damascus needs "to consider alternative sources of energy, including nuclear energy." French President Nicolas Sarkozy opened the conference on Monday with a call for many more countries to adopt nucle ... read more |
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Argonne, Ill. (UPI) Mar 2, 2009 U.S. scientists say they've created a material that mimics a Venus Flytrap, but instead of catching insects, it traps radioactive nuclear waste. Mercouri Kanatzidis, a scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, and Nan Ding, a chemist at Northwestern University, said their sulfide framework can trap radioactive cesium ions, giving it the potential of helping speed clean-u ... more 
Sofia (AFP) March 2, 2010EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on Tuesday backed Bulgarian efforts to find a European investor for a new nuclear plant in Bulgaria that a Russian company has been hired to build. "We are very cautious about this project. We are aware of Bulgaria's existing contracts, which it should meet. "But we also have a marked interest in having European participaton in the project," Oett ... more 
Vienna (AFP) Feb 28, 2010The International Atomic Energy Agency meets to discuss a tough new report on Iran by its new director general Yukiya Amano this week. Diplomats close to the UN watchdog say the IAEA's 35-member board of governors is unlikely to censure the Islamic republic over its contested nuclear work, despite some blunt words by Amano in his first report on the matter. But the four-day meeting, als ... more |
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Russia to start work on Baltic nuclear plant: PutinMoscow (AFP) Feb 24, 2010 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday approved a new Russian nuclear power station that has worried ecologists, with officials saying that the first stone would be laid this week. Putin agreed to the construction of the nuclear power station in Russia's Baltic territory of Kaliningrad on the border with the European Union, the government said. "The first stone will be laid tomorrow (Thursday)," a spokesman for Russia's nuclear energy state corporation Rosatom, Sergei Novikov, told AFP. ... read more |
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