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China, Pakistan in talks on new nuclear plantIslamabad (AFP) Sept 21, 2010 Pakistan on Tuesday implicitly confirmed it is holding talks with China to build a new nuclear power plant in the energy-starved South Asian nation. "We have an ongoing civil nuclear cooperation agreement with China which is according to our respective international obligations for peaceful purposes under the IAEA safeguards," foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit told AFP, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Wall Street Journal reported that China's main nuclear power compan ... read more |
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Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 14, 2010USEC has announced that the Megatons to Megawatts program has eliminated the equivalent of 16,000 nuclear warheads by recycling 400 metric tons of weapons-grade uranium from Russia into low enriched uranium used as fuel in commercial nuclear power plants. The Megatons to Megawatts program is a unique, commercially financed government-industry partnership in which 500 metric tons of Russian ... more 
South Royalton VT (SPX) Sep 14, 2010The so-called "French nuclear miracle" embraced by some U.S. policymakers as a model for this nation is a misconception masking a pattern of fast-rising nuclear reactor construction costs and a "crowding out" of investments in renewable energy, such as wind, solar and hydro-electric power, according to a new study by Vermont Law School's Institute for Energy and the Environment. Study auth ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Sep 10, 2010 The German opposition has reacted angrily over revelations that the government, as part of its decision to extend the life of nuclear power in Germany to the mid 2030s, struck a deal with the nuclear industry to shield it from unfavorable future political decisions. German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a previously unreleased memo assured the country's four main utilities that government- ... more |
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Egypt nuclear reactor broke down in April: atomic chiefCairo (AFP) Sept 7, 2010 An Egyptian nuclear reactor broke down in April but there was no radiation leak, the head of the country's atomic agency said on Tuesday. "There had been a mechanical failure of the cooling pump when the reactor was switched on," Mohammed al-Qolali told AFP, saying the reactor was quickly repaired. He said that during the failure there was "absolutely no" leak. Egypt, which launched its nuclear programme in the 1950s, acquired a Russian-made nuclear research reactor and later an Argentine on ... read more |
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