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Site chosen for first UAE nuclear power plantAbu Dhabi (AFP) April 22, 2010 The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp (ENEC) on Thursday announced it has chosen a site near the Saudi border for its first nuclear power station, due to come on stream in seven years. It said the facility will be built at Braqa, 53 kilometres (33 miles) southwest of the Gulf coast town of Ruwais in western Abu Dhabi in a sparsely populated area of desert. The 13-square-kilometre (five-square-mile) site was chosen from 10 sites across the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven emirates in which ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) April 12, 2010Ukraine pledged Monday to dispose of its stocks of highly enriched uranium by 2012, as the United States vowed to work with the nation still haunted by the Chernobyl accident over two decades ago. The surprise announcement came in a joint statement after US President Barack Obama met for the first time with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who took office in the former Soviet republic ... more 
Washington (AFP) April 13, 2010President Barack Obama declared the world safer Tuesday after a 47-nation summit agreed to a four-year deadline on securing vulnerable nuclear materials from terrorists. "Because of the steps we've taken," Obama told a news conference following the summit in Washington, "the American people will be safer and the world will be more secure." The unprecedented gathering met the challenge po ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 12, 2010Pakistan's prime minister on Monday defended his country as a responsible nuclear power, shooting down concerns at a major security summit that extremists could seize loose weapons. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who controls the Islamic world's only declared nuclear arsenal, rebuffed calls to halt production of fissile material and insisted that Pakistan needed a deterrent against histo ... more |
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France, Italy boost nuclear cooperation, defend euroParis (AFP) April 9, 2010 France and Italy on Friday agreed to cooperate more closely to increase nuclear power generation and vowed to come to the aid of debt-laden Greece in order to defend the euro. At a summit at the Elysee presidential palace, President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Italy's decision to tap into nuclear power and said France was ready to share its expertise as Europe's largest atomic energy producer. Speaking at a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Sarkozy also said the Eu ... read more |
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