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S.E. Asia eyes nuclear energy to meet power demandSingapore (AFP) June 9, 2010 Despite safety fears, Southeast Asia's energy-hungry economies are exploring the nuclear option to keep up with escalating power demand in a region of more than half a billion people. Vietnam plans to make its first nuclear plant operational in 10 years, while Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand are all exploring the feasibility of tapping atomic energy. "Everybody wants aircon, everybody wants the latest appliances, so all these translate into demand for electricity," says Anthony Jude, ... read more |
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Rio De Janeiro (UPI) May 25, 2010 Brazil, the oldest nuclear power in Latin America, is poised to attain industrial autonomy in the processing of uranium in a move pursued by the military to secure the country's pre-eminent status in military and political fields. Brazil completed enrichment on a small non-commercial scale many years ago but faced U.S. intervention in its long-standing nuclear program at every step of t ... more 
Dhaka, Bangladesh (UPI) May 24, 2010 Bangladesh and Russia signed a framework agreement for Russian cooperation for Bangladesh's first nuclear plant. Bangladesh aims to produce at least 2,000 megawatts of electricity by 2020 from two units of the proposed Rooppur plant and also to have nuclear energy account for 10 percent of its total power generation by that time, Bangladeshi state news agency BSS reports. The agr ... more 
Dhaka (AFP) May 22, 2010Bangladesh has signed a cooperation deal with Russia which will led to two nuclear power plants being built in the energy-starved South Asian nation, an official said Saturday. Under the deal, signed in Moscow on Friday, Russia will help construct the two 1,000-megawatt nuclear plants in the north of the country, Bangladesh's nuclear energy commission chief Mosharraf Hossain told AFP. "I ... more |
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US State Lawmakers Do Not Share Love For Nuclear IndustryWashington DC (SPX) May 21, 2010 It 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 States, according to an analysis by the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS). Even as some in Con ... read more |
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