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Marine energy takes off in the U.K.Edinburgh, Scotland (UPI) Mar 17, 2009 Marine energy projects have been jump-started in Scotland and Northern Ireland in a bid to power the United Kingdom's homes with energy from the sea. The Crown Estate this week granted 10 project licenses to companies committed to build wave and tidal power plants generating up to 1.2 gigawatts of electricity - roughly the capacity of a large nuclear power plan - within 10 years. "The U.K. has the technological lead, the experience and some of the best natural resources in the world, e ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) March 9, 2010Senegal is preparing to build a nuclear power plant with French help, its energy minister said Tuesday at a conference hosted by France to promote civilian use of atomic energy. The project could make Senegal Africa's second nuclear energy producing country after South Africa, which has two French-designed reactors at Koeberg, near Cape Town. Senegalese Energy Minister Samuel Amete Sarr ... more 
Amman (AFP) March 9, 2010Jordan on Tuesday rejected plans for a joint nuclear power project with Israel, saying it would be "premature" to talk about atomic cooperation before resolving the conflict with the Palestinians. "There are no Jordanian-Israeli projects in the field of nuclear energy," Khaled Tukan, head of Jordan's Atomic Energy Commission, told state-run Petra news agency in Paris, where he is taking part ... more 
Warsaw (AFP) March 9, 2010PGE SA, Poland's largest energy firm, has signed a deal with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) for a feasibility study on plans to build its first nuclear power plant, statements said Tuesday. The US-based GEH "will help PGE study the feasibility of building up to four reactors based on one of GEH's reactor designs," a GEH statement said. PGE said the accord, reached on March 1, "does not ... more |
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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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