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Areva postpones start of Finnish nuclear reactorParis (AFP) June 7, 2010 French nuclear giant Areva on Monday announced a fresh six-month delay to its third generation EPR nuclear reactor in Finland, with the plant now not operational before the end of 2012. The Olkiluoto reactor was initially to enter service in mid-2009. Areva in its last note to its Finnish client TVO put the start-up in mid-2012. Since then, TVO has been asking for a new timetable in light of numerous delays to the project, notably caused by problems with pipe work. "Given the progress th ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) May 20, 2010Iran's first nuclear plant, which Russia is building in the city of Bushehr, should go online by August regardless of any new UN sanctions against Tehran, a top Russian atomic official said Thursday. "We are counting on the nuclear power station launching in August, if everything goes as planned," Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's federal atomic energy agency, was quoted as saying by Ru ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2010It was front-page news across America this February when the Vermont Senate voted to shut down the troubled Vermont Yankee reactor in 2012. But what most Americans don't know is that the nuclear industry also lost all of its seven other major state legislative pushes this year - going 0-8 and putting yet another nail in the coffin of the myth of the "nuclear renaissance" in the United Stat ... more 
Moscow (AFP) May 20, 2010Russia and Namibia signed Thursday an agreement on exploration and production of uranium which could lead to a one billion dollars investment in the resource-rich African country, officials said. President Dmitry Medvedev and his visiting Namibian counterpart Hifikepunye Pohamba oversaw the signing of the deal in the Kremlin as they also pledged to ramp up cooperation in hydrocarbon explorat ... more |
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Belgium denies reports it wants more from GDF SuezBrussels (AFP) May 14, 2010 The Belgian government on Friday denied press reports it wanted to slap an additional charge on French group GDF Suez for extending the life of GDF's nuclear plants in Belgium. The energy ministry cited a draft agreement signed in October 2009 between the government and GDF Suez calling for payment of 215 to 245 million euros (396 million dollars) for the period 2010-2015. "Beyond that date the amount of the payment has not been decided, given that the energy price to be applied at that time is ... read more |
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