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Putin woos Ukraine with gas deal, nuclear offerKiev (AFP) April 27, 2010 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin moved Tuesday to intensify Russia's revival in ties with ex-Soviet Ukraine, offering an unprecedented nuclear cooperation deal and revealing the cost of gas price cuts. Putin wrapped up talks with Ukraine's leadership in the early hours of the morning after flying in for a night-time visit days after the two countries agreed a landmark deal to extend the lease on a key Russian base. He offered new President Viktor Yanukovych, who has overseen a resurgence in ties wi ... read more |
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Riyadh (AFP) April 17, 2010Oil giant Saudi Arabia on Saturday gave its strongest signal yet that it wants to develop atomic power by announcing a new centre for nuclear and alternative energy technologies. Former commerce minister Hashem bin Abdullah Yamani was named to head the King Abdullah City for Nuclear and Renewable Energies, to be built in Riyadh, said an announcement on the official SPA news agency. The g ... more 
Paris (UPI) Apr 16, 2010 France and Kuwait signed an agreement to develop nuclear energy in the Gulf country, a comeback for the French nuclear industry after it lost a key reactor deal in the United Arab Emirates. After talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheik Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmad al-Sabah and French officials signed an agreement to develop a civil nuclear energy project F ... more 
Moscow (AFP) April 15, 2010Russia on Thursday shut down its last weapons-grade plutonium reactor, in line with a pledge made at a nuclear security summit in Washington this week, officials said. "It was shut down today at 0400 GMT," Yelena Golovinkina, a spokeswoman for the Mining-Chemical Complex in the Siberian city of Zheleznogorsk, which houses the reactor, told AFP. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had pledg ... more |
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Finland does not need three new nuclear plants: ministerHelsinki (AFP) April 19, 2010 Finland does not need three new nuclear plants to secure its future energy needs, the minister who is preparing a government proposal on the subject said in an interview published on Monday. "We have made calculations of what the need is, and estimates of how the need will be fulfilled. Three nuclear plants are not needed," Economic Affairs Minister Mauri Pekkarinen told leading daily Helsingin Sanomat. Prime Minister Vanhanen has made similar remarks in the past and in an interview with regiona ... read more |
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