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Britain sinks tidal scheme, names eight future nuclear sitesLondon (AFP) Oct 18, 2010 The British government confirmed on Monday it will drop plans for a multi-billion-pound tidal energy project, as it identified eight sites suitable for building new nuclear power stations. An official study said the proposed 10-mile (16-kilometre) barrage stretching across the Severn river, which was to generate energy using tidal power, could cost more than 34 billion pounds (54 billion dollars, 38.9 billion euros). It described the project as "high risk in comparison to other ways of generatin ... read more |
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Geneva (AFP) Oct 5, 2010Environmental group Greenpeace sharply criticised Swiss power stations Tuesday for using nuclear fuel from a Russian reprocessing centre at Mayak, claiming it was one of the world's most polluted. Greenpeace Switzerland said in an open letter to energy firm Axpo that executives had acknowledged "for the first time" that reprocessed nuclear fuel from Mayak was used in two nuclear power statio ... more 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 4, 2010Iran's atomic chief has said a small leak in a pool beside the Bushehr reactor has delayed the start-up of the nuclear plant, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday. However, Ali Akbar Salehi ruled out any links between the delayed launch and a computer worm which analysts say may have been designed to target the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities. "During the washing proces ... more 
Berlin (AFP) Oct 3, 2010Germany's resurgent Green party is setting records in the opinion polls and being tentatively courted by unlikely new suitors: industry types who long saw the environmentalists as adversaries. Particularly smaller, often family-owned, businesses - the backbone of the Europe's biggest economy - are being drawn in by the opposition Greens' programme of pragmatic sustainability. "The Gree ... more |
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S.Africa will not sign S.Korea nuclear power deal: official Johannesburg (AFP) Oct 3, 2010 South Africa said Sunday it would not sign an agreement with South Korea to design and build nuclear power plants in the African country, dismissing an earlier report, the foreign ministry said. South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is due in Seoul on Friday "to discuss our bilateral relations in general", spokesman Saul Molobi for the foreign ministry said. "Motlanthe is not going to sign any deal... We are not going to discuss any possibility for South Africa to buy a nuclear plant ... read more |
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