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German cabinet approves contentious nuclear plansBerlin (AFP) Sept 28, 2010 German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved on Tuesday hotly disputed plans to postpone by more than a decade the date when Europe's biggest economy abandons nuclear power. "For the first time in many years, a German government is setting out a energy plan for the long term," Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle told reporters in Berlin. "It sets out a good and detailed roadmap with the era of renewable energy as the destination." In a country with strong public misgivings about the safe ... read more |
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Moscow (UPI) Sep 22, 2010 Russia and Kuwait have signed a five-year nuclear cooperation agreement. The memorandum of understanding between the Kuwait National Nuclear Energy Committee and Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation was signed in Vienna on the sidelines of the 54th session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Robsbalt news agency reported Wednesday. Ear ... more 
Paris (AFP) Sept 22, 2010France's state-owned nuclear giant Areva was in the spotlight Wednesday and its boss under pressure after a revelation it knew its workers in Niger were at risk long before last week's kidnap. Le Monde newspaper on Tuesday put online a letter dated September 1 sent by Niger officials warning about an armed group seeking to abduct foreign workers in the desert area where seven expats were kid ... more
Islamabad (AFP) Sept 21, 2010Pakistan 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 I ... more |
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UN atomic watchdog sees 'new era' in nuclear energyVienna (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 There is a renaissance of worldwide interest in nuclear power as countries seek clean and stable sources of energy which will not exacerbate climate change, the UN atomic watchdog said Monday. "It is not an exaggeration to say that we have entered a new era." the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, told the body's annual general conference on its first day. Some 60 countries were currently considering launching nuclear energy programmes, Amano said. "We expect betwe ... read more |
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