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Bill Gates, Toshiba in early talks on nuclear reactorTokyo (AFP) March 23, 2010 A company backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Toshiba are in early talks to jointly develop a small nuclear reactor, the Japanese electronics giant said Tuesday. The Nikkei business daily earlier reported that the two sides would team up to develop a compact next-generation reactor that can operate for up to 100 years without refueling to provide emission-free energy. The daily said the joint development would focus on the Traveling-Wave Reactor (TWR), which consumes depleted uranium as f ... read more |
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Brasilia (AFP) March 10, 2010Brazil and Germany differed sharply Wednesday on whether to threaten Iran with fresh United Nations sanctions in a bid to rein in its disputed nuclear program. Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle said after talks here they agreed it was crucial to allow the creation of a new nuclear power, but clashed on the issue of sanctions. Tehran must ... more  
Istanbul (AFP) March 10, 2010The 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 sa ... more 
Paris (AFP) March 9, 2010Syria, 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." Frenc ... more |
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Jordan rejects joint nuclear power project with IsraelAmman (AFP) March 9, 2010 Jordan 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 in a conference hosted by France. Israeli officials said on Monday that a nuclear power plant to meet the ... read more |
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