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Nuclear power vital to cutting CO2 emissions: reportParis (AFP) June 16, 2010 Roughly a quarter of global electricity could be generated by nuclear power by 2050, requiring a tripling in nuclear generating capacity but making a major contribution to reduced CO2 emissions, a report said Wednesday. A study by the International Energy Agency, which seeks to coordinate energy policies in industrialised nations, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development described such a target as "ambitious but achievable." "Nuclear is already one of the main sources of low ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Jun 1, 2010 North Korea can target, attack and sink a South Korean warship, kill 46 of the South Korean crew but South Korea cannot retaliate without triggering a barrage of shells from North Korea's 11,000 artillery tubes that can lay waste Seoul, a capital city of 11 million. North Korea is also a rogue nuclear power and a single nuclear-tipped missile could probably achieve the same result. A po ... more  
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) June 1, 2010Work started Tuesday on a third nuclear reactor in Brazil after being stalled for 24 years, the state company Electronuclear said. The reactor, in the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant 150 kilometers (90 miles) on the coast south of Rio de Janeiro, received final authorization from the National Nuclear Energy Commission. The cost of Angra III, as the reactor is known, is 4.9 billion dol ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2010GlobalData's "Nuclear Energy Annual Deals Analysis 2010" report is an essential source of data and trend analysis on the mergers and acquisitions (M and A) and financings in the nuclear energy market. The report provides detailed information on M and As, equity/debt offerings, private equity (PE), venture financing and partnership transactions registered in the uranium mining and processin ... more |
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Environmentalists slam Turkey, Russia over nuclear plantAnkara (AFP) May 25, 2010 Environmentalists 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 statement. "Nuclear energy has no place at all in our neighborhood," it said. Under the accord signed ear ... read more |
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