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Brazil not talking uranium enrichment with Iran: official Brasilia (AFP) Feb 4, 2010
Brazil has not discussed enriching uranium for Iran under an international deal, its foreign ministry said Thursday, contradicting an Iranian official's reported comments that the South American nation might take on that role.
"There have not been any conversations about enriching nuclear fuel in Brazil," a ministry spokesman told AFP.
He was reacting to a reported comment by Iran's atom ... read moreAreva, EDF reach nuclear waste deal
Paris (AFP) Feb 5, 2010French energy groups Areva and EDF have reached an agreement on the treatment of nuclear waste following weeks of tensions, the companies announced Friday. "The two companies will sign a contract before the end of the first quarter of 2010," the said in a joint statement. The agreement relates to the transportation, treatment and recycling of used nuclear material, they said. Areva, ... more
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Britain, India agree civil nuclear deal: ministers
London (AFP) Feb 4, 2010Britain and India have agreed the text of a deal on civil nuclear cooperation, ministers from both countries announced after talks in London on Thursday. "The two sides have discussed and negotiated a civil nuclear energy cooperation agreement and we hope that will be signed soon," Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said during a visit for trade talks. His British counterpart, Busines ... more Italian government to challenge regions' anti-nuclear laws
Milan (AFP) Feb 4, 2010The Italian government announced on Thursday it would challenge a ban in three of the country's regions preventing the construction of nuclear plants on their territory in the Constitutional Court. The laws adopted by the Southern regions of Campania, Basilicata and Apulia "do not recognise the State's exclusive jurisdiction over the safeguard of the environment, over national security and o ... more Russia accused of Baltic Sea nukes dumping
Stockholm, Sweden (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 Sweden is investigating claims that Russia during the 1990s dumped chemical and nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea. A TV report broadcast Wednesday by Swedish private channel SVT accuses Russia of dumping chemical weapons and radioactive waste off the shores of Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. The toxic material allegedly stems from Russia's Karosta naval base in the L ... more Ahmadinejad says 'no problem' to ship Iran uranium abroad
Tehran (AFP) Feb 3, 2010President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement that Iran is willing to send its uranium abroad was cautiously welcomed by world powers on Wednesday as a sign Tehran might accept a UN-brokered nuclear fuel deal. Iran would have "no problem" sending out its stocks of low-enriched uranium (LEU) to be further purified into reactor fuel, Ahmadinejad said late on Tuesday. His comments came ahead ... more |
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Protests as French uranium arrives in Russia
Saint Petersburg, Russia (AFP) Feb 1, 2010A cargo loaded with depleted uranium from France docked Monday in Russia's port city of Saint Petersburg, Greenpeace said, as Russian activists protested at the nuclear waste exports. "The Kapitan Kuroptev, loaded with 650 tonnes of depleted uranium, has arrived in Saint Petersburg," the Russian branch of the environmental watchdog said in a statement. The uranium, from French nuclear gi ... more Saudi to join nuclear safety pact
Riyadh (AFP) Feb 1, 2010The Saudi government on Monday approved joining the Nuclear Safety Convention, the UN nuclear watchdog agency's pact on maintaining safety in nuclear power plants. In its weekly meeting, the cabinet approved accession to the 1994 convention, which has 66 members and is overseen by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, the official SPA news agency reported. The world's numb ... more IAEA still in 'dialogue' on Iran enrichment deal: Amano
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 29, 2010UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukio Amano said Friday his agency was still trying to negotiate a uranium enrichment deal amid new Western warnings to the Islamic state over its atomic programme. "Our proposal is on the table. Dialogue is continuing," the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Amano, who took over as hea ... more Spanish towns bid for nuclear waste site
Madrid (AFP) Jan 30, 2010Eleven Spanish towns have volunteered to host a major new nuclear waste storage site, a long-delayed project that is fiercely opposed by environmentalists, Spanish media reported Saturday. Spain's six nuclear plants, which produce about 20 percent of its electricity, currently store their own spent fuel but last month the government called for bids from locations interested in building a cen ... more |
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