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Greenpeace activists break into Swedish nuclear plantStockholm (AFP) June 14, 2010 Swedish police arrested some 50 Greenpeace activists on Monday who broke into a nuclear plant demanding that parliament reject the building of new reactors, the environmental group and police said. "Around 50 activists were arrested" at the Forsmark nuclear power plant near Uppsala, north of Stockholm, local police spokesman Christer Nordstroem told AFP, adding he did not know the exact number of arrests. "Now we think there are no activists left" on the premises, he added. He later told Swe ... read more |
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United Nations (AFP) May 26, 2010The rift between non-aligned states and nuclear powers opened wide Wednesday at a UN non-proliferation conference, diplomats attending the meeting told AFP. In the closing days of a month-long review of the 189-nation Non-Proliferation Treaty, delegates were engaged in painstaking line-by-line debate on a draft final statement. Non-aligned states suggested amendments to the 28-page draft ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) May 25, 2010Electronics giant Toshiba said Tuesday it would buy a 100-million-dollar stake in US nuclear fuel producer USEC as the Japenese firm seeks a greater presence in the growing market for nuclear power plants. The electronics maker, which also builds industrial components and nuclear power plants, will invest in United States Enrichment Corporation along with US-based Babcock & Wilcox Investment ... more 
Ankara (AFP) May 25, 2010Environmentalists from Turkey, Greece and Cyprus condemned Tuesday a Turkish-Russian nuclear power plant project, warning of ecological damage and threats from seismic activity. A deal that Turkey signed with Russia to build the country's first nuclear power plant "awakes the nuclear nightmare of the Eastern Mediterranean," four branches of Greenpeace and Friends of Earth said in a joint sta ... more |
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Bangladesh signs nuclear deal with RussiaDhaka (AFP) May 22, 2010 Bangladesh 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. "It is the first step towards setting up the two nuclear power plants. A full-fledged agreement will be signed i ... read more |
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