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Finnish police arrest 30 at nuclear power plant protestHelsinki (AFP) Aug 28, 2010 Finnish police arrested 30 demonstrators protesting near a nuclear power plant in Finland on Saturday for refusing to follow orders, a police official said. "Police did not have an option but to detain the whole group for refusing to follow police orders," Lars Groenroos of the Satakunta police told AFP. "Thirty people were taken to the Rauma police station" and 10 of them were given fines, he said. The protesters started blocking roads around the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant, in southweste ... read more |
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Tehran (AFP) Aug 20, 2010Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced on Friday that Iran has test fired a surface-to-surface missile, Qiam, a day before it is due to launch its Russian-built first nuclear power plant. State television showed images of the sand coloured Qiam (Rising) blasting into the air from a desert terrain, amid chants of "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest). The words "Ya Mahdi" were written on the ... more  
Bushehr, Iran (AFP) Aug 21, 2010A defiant Iran on Saturday began loading fuel into its Russian-built first nuclear power plant in the face of stiff opposition from world powers to its controversial atomic programme. Despite leading Western opposition to the Islamic republic's project to enrich uranium in defiance of four sets of UN sanctions, the United States said it saw no "proliferation risk" from the new plant. Wes ... more 
Vienna (AFP) Aug 20, 2010Iran's first nuclear plant, scheduled to go online this weekend, is not a major proliferation risk, despite international concerns about the nature of Tehran's atomic programme, experts said Friday. The Russian-built plant in the southern port city of Bushehr is set to be launched on Saturday, following more than three decades of delay. But it will be months yet before it actually starts gen ... more |
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Merkel rebuffs German industry attack on nuclear taxBerlin (AFP) Aug 22, 2010 Chancellor 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 television. She said she assumed the tax would be in the form of a direct levy on nuclear power plants, in ... read more |
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