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Iran needs two weeks to fully load fuel in nuclear plantTehran (AFP) Aug 31, 2010 Iran will need two more weeks to complete the process of loading fuel into its Russian-built first nuclear power plant, atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said. The process of loading 163 fuel rods, also supplied by Russia, into the nuclear power plant located in the southern port city of Bushehr began on August 21 and was to be completed by September 5. Thereafter the rods were to be transferred to the reactor. But state news agency IRNA reported late on Monday that Salehi, in an interview with ... read more |
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Pripyat, Russia (UPI) Aug 20, 2010 Scientists studying wildlife in the Chernobyl region say DNA may be the key to which species are most likely to be damaged by radioactive contamination. Two scientists, one American and one French, have been in Chernobyl for more than 10 years studying the populations of insects, birds and mammals in "zone of alienation" surrounding the abandoned nuclear power station in Ukraine, the BB ... more
Beirut (AFP) Aug 25, 2010Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday called on Lebanon to consider building a nuclear power plant in the energy-starved nation. "I call on the Lebanese government to seriously consider ... building a nuclear power plant for the peaceful purpose of generating electricity, which would be more cost-efficient than the plan the government has endorsed," Nasrallah said in a speech broadcast ... more
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 |
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Iran's Bushehr plant not a major proliferation risk: expertsVienna (AFP) Aug 20, 2010 Iran'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 generating electricity. Western countries - and the United States in particular - are convinced that Iran i ... read more |
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