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Quebecers full of hope and fear over uraniumMontreal (AFP) Aug 25, 2010 A global nuclear energy renaissance has reignited interest in uranium mining in Canada, the world leader in the sector, but also apprehensions by some who fear radioactive pollution. In Quebec City, environmental activists set up a mock mining camp on the lawn of the provincial legislature to voice their opposition, and legally obtained an exploration permit via the Internet to dig under Quebec's national assembly to make their point, while lawmakers mulled changes to the province's mining laws. ... read more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 20, 2010India's cabinet on Friday approved a long-delayed draft law aimed at opening up its civilian nuclear power industry to private investment, particularly from US companies, reports said. The bill, which will now be sent to parliament where it is expected to pass comfortably, is part of a landmark atomic energy pact with the United States in 2008 that granted India access to foreign nuclear tec ... more 
Yerevan (AFP) Aug 20, 2010Russia and Armenia signed an agreement Friday on the construction of a new reactor unit for the ex-Soviet republic's controversial Soviet-era Metzamor nuclear power station. "The agreement provides for cooperation in the construction of a new nuclear power unit in Armenia," Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisian told AFP after a signing ceremony during a visit by Russian President Dmitry M ... more 
Berlin (AFP) Aug 22, 2010Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday dismissed angry calls by German business leaders to scrap a planned tax on nuclear energy production which they call a threat to investment. Asked whether taxes on the nuclear energy sector amounting to 2.3 billion euros (2.9 billion dollars) per year would still be introduced, Merkel replied, "Of course," in an interview to air later Sunday on ZDF public t ... more |
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India cabinet to discuss key nuclear bill FridayNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 19, 2010 India's cabinet was expected Friday to discuss changing a bill on its civilian nuclear power industry, to increase the liability of foreign-reactor suppliers in the case of an accident. The measure will help pave the way to putting into operation a landmark atomic pact with the United States signed in 2008 that ended India's nuclear isolation and reflected deepening ties between the world's largest democracies. The cabinet meeting, to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was to be held F ... read more |
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