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German MPs green light nuclear revivalBerlin (UPI) Oct 29, 2010 After a rowdy parliamentary debate and a media-heavy publicity stunt by Greenpeace, German lawmakers approved the government's plan to extend the lifetime of nuclear power in Germany. Government parliamentarians threw their weight behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel's energy bill that was adopted Thursday on a 308-289 vote. It would extend running times of the country's 17 nuclear reactors by 12 years on average. The country had seen large anti-nuclear demonstrations in the weeks befo ... read more |
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 China hopes for nuclear, aviation deals with France China said Thursday it hoped to reach agreements with France on nuclear energy and civil aviation during President Hu Jintao's state visit to the European nation next week. ... more | .. |
Protests against German vote to maintain nuclear power Protesters scaled Chancellor Angela Merkel's party headquarters Thursday and surrounded parliament as lawmakers voted to postpone by more than a decade the date Germany is to abandon nuclear power. ... more | .. |
 Iran begins fuelling Bushehr nuclear reactor Iran on Tuesday began fuelling the reactor core of its Russian-built nuclear power plant while saying the content, date and venue of new talks with the big powers on its atomic programme have yet to be agreed. ... more | .. |
EU drafts nuclear waste guidelines The European Union says it will require member states to implement strategies for storage of nuclear waste, recommending deep burial underground. ... more | .. |
EDF to buy up Constellation's nuclear investments in Unistar French energy group EDF and Constellation Energy announced Tuesday they had reached an agreement to restructure their partnership, with EDF taking full ownership of UniStar Nuclear Energy. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 26, 2010US and South Korean experts began talks aimed at concluding a new agreement on sharing civil nuclear energy technology, once the current accord expires in 2014, the State Department said Tuesday. During their meeting in Washington on Monday the two sides outlined their negotiating positions and discussed when and where to hold further consultations for a new agreement, it said in a statement ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 26, 2010The leaders of Japan and Vietnam are expected to discuss a nuclear energy pact and the joint development of rare earth minerals when they meet in Hanoi this weekend, a Japanese official said Tuesday. Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan will visit the Vietnamese capital for meetings of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations starting Thursday and a wider 16-nation East Asia Summit ( ... more 
Kiev (AFP) Oct 27, 2010Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday signed a raft of agreements including in shale gas exploration and nuclear cooperation amid concerns by Ukrainian opposition over increasingly closer ties with Moscow. The accords signed by visiting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin included a deal by Tvel, Russia's nuclear-fuel state producer, to set up a joint venture to build a uranium processing plant ... more |
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Argentina to join small group of uranium-enriching countriesBuenos Aires (AFP) Oct 25, 2010 Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner Monday rededicated a uranium enrichment plant in southern province of Rio Negro, saying that next year Argentina would join the group of 10 countries producing the fuel for peaceful use. "In November 11, a first sample of enriched uranium will be obtained, at which point, Argentina will join the group of 10 countries producing enriched uranium" for peaceful ends, Kirchner said. The same plant was used to produce enriched uranium from 1982 to 1983 but then ... read more |
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