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S.Korea, Turkey sign deal on nuclear power plantIstanbul (AFP) March 10, 2010 The state power companies of South Korea and Turkey signed a preliminary deal here Wednesday aimed at building a nuclear power plant in northern Turkey. Under the deal, the companies will carry out preliminary work and "if a common ground with mutually acceptable conditions emerges, the main agreement between the two governments will be signed", Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. The protocol was inked by officials from EUAS of Turkey and Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO), which i ... read more |
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Montpelier VT (SPX) Mar 04, 2010Today, the Vermont State Senate voted to retire the Vermont Yankee Nuclear plant, owned by the Louisiana based corporation Entergy. Despite Entergy's efforts to renew the license for the 40-year-old reactor, the Vermont Senate voted to shut down the nuclear plant as scheduled in 2012 with a final count of 26-4. This vote may be followed by a vote in the House of Representatives. If either ... more 
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 |
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Strikers block access to Areva facility: sourcesParis (AFP) Feb 25, 2010 Striking workers are blocking access to nuclear group Areva's principal French production site to press demands for a salary hike, union and company security sources said Thursday. "The site is still blocked," a member of the secuity team told AFP. Security officers have been the only personnel allowed to enter the site in Saint Marcel, in eastern France, since Wednesday night. The plant employs 1,000 people in the manufacture of nuclear reactors. Management said negotiations were under way. ... read more |
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