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Bill Gates-Toshiba talk nuclear power Tokyo (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 Japan's Toshiba and TerraPower, a company backed by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, are in talks about a nuclear power venture. Gates is the principal owner of TerraPower, a spinoff from Seattle's Intellectual Ventures, founded by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold. The company explores ways to improve emission-free energy supplies through small nuclear reactors. An agreement between the companies could be a boom to the creation of a traveling-wave reactor that runs ... read more |
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Niamey, Niger (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 Iranian diplomats are reported to have quit the capital of the rickety West African state of Niger following a military coup that toppled President Mamadou Tandja. Tandja had been courted by Tehran, which sought his country's large uranium deposits for its controversial nuclear program, says Intelligence Online, a French Web site that covers intelligence matters. The aging Tandja ... more  
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 |
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Senegal working with France on nuclear plantParis (AFP) March 9, 2010 Senegal 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 told delegates that France and Senegal were working together and that a plant should be online by 2020. " ... read more |
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