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Indian nuclear bill wins final approvalNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 31, 2010 A bill aimed at throwing open India's 150-billion-dollar civilian nuclear market cleared its final parliamentary hurdle Monday after a stormy debate. The bill, critical to implementing a 2008 landmark atomic energy pact with the United States, which grants India access to foreign nuclear technology, was approved by parliament's upper house. Premier Manmohan Singh has said the measure will end a decades-old "nuclear apartheid" that had prevented India from buying reactors and nuclear fuel abroad ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) Aug 24, 2010A dozen supporters of Russia's opposition party Yabloko protested in Moscow Tuesday against a project to transport nuclear waste from Germany into Russia, the party leader said. Protesters brandished placards with the slogan "Nuclear waste, no thank you!" in front of the German embassy in Moscow, Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin said. The demonstrators condemned a reported plan to send 95 ... more  
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 |
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Russia, Armenia sign deal on new nuclear reactorYerevan (AFP) Aug 20, 2010 Russia 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 Medvedev. "A joint venture will be created with (Russian state atomic agency) Rosatom which will provide th ... read more |
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