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![]() Berlin (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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Anti-nuclear German Greens hit poll high as Merkel drops![]() Germany's opposition Greens hit a new record high in the opinion polls Wednesday, now sharing second place among the parties amid public ire over Chancellor Angela Merkel's nuclear energy policy. The ecologist Greens drew 24 percent in the Forsa poll for Stern magazine, a gain of two percentage points from last week and neck-and-neck with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), whose score w ... more Russia expands Middle East nuke presence ![]() 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 France's Areva in spotlight over Niger kidnap warnings ![]() France'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 |
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![]() Bucharest (AFP) Sept 21, 2010 Czech power producer CEZ has pulled out of a project to build a third and fourth reactor at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in south-east Romania, news agency Mediafax reported Tuesday. "The decision to withdraw was approved by the board of CEZ," the group's corporate business director in Romania, Adrian Borotea, was quoted as saying. The company wants to search for other projects in the region with less risk and with the possibility to recover the invested money faster, he added. Borotea ... read more |
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