TOKYO (AFP)–Japan and Russia have signed a nuclear energy pact that will pave the way for contracts worth billions of dollars, the head of Russia’s state nuclear agency said Tuesday.
The accord, which was inked during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tokyo, will allow for the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the [...]
TOKYO (AFP)–Japan and Russia have signed a nuclear energy pact that will pave the way for contracts worth billions of dollars, the head of Russia’s state nuclear agency said Tuesday.
The accord, which was inked during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tokyo, will allow for the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the [...]
JACKSON, Miss., March 23, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —-Thirty years ago, the United States experienced the worst nuclear plant accident in American history. Since that time, increased vigilance in safety has made the nation’s 104 nuclear plants - including the 12 reactors operated by Entergy Nuclear - an even stronger and safer form of energy [...]
Sujay Mehdudia
NEW DELHI: India and Kazakhstan are likely to ink some major agreements, including for supply of uranium and cooperation in the nuclear energy sector, during the visit of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev to New Delhi from January 23.
Mr. Nazarbayev will be the chief guest during the Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
Following discussions between [...]
South Korea today announced a massive investment plan to build more power plants, including 12 new nuclear reactors in the next four years, to meet growing energy demand.
It plans to spend 37 trillion won ($28.5 billion) between 2009 and 2022 constructing 12 commercial reactors and 19 thermoelectric power plants, the ministry of knowledge economy said [...]
Watching Gov. Sarah Palin’s policy speech on energy right now. It looks as if she’s tacking on her stump speech praise of McCain. She’s reading off the prompter at times and winging it at others. Still not sure what this speech is, what the goal is, who the audience is…. and why this is [...]
An expert panel is to advise the government of Saskatchewan on developing its nuclear industry. The Canadian province is already a leading exporter of uranium.
The panel, called the Uranium Development Partnership, was announced yesterday by provincial ministers Lyle Stewart and Ken Cheveldayoff on for the ministries of Enterprise and Innovation and Crown Corporations respectively. [...]
By Subramaniam Sharma
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — India needs to tap opportunities to get nuclear reactors and secure uranium supplies as a global financial crisis may slow orders from other countries.
“The current global financial crisis may very well be a blessing in disguise,” Shyam Saran, special envoy to the prime minister on the nuclear deal, [...]
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 20 (IANS) Malaysia is to go in for nuclear energy as an alternative source of power generation by 2020 and a paper identifying sites for installing nuclear plants would be submitted to the cabinet by the year end, it was announced Monday.
The paper would identify the criteria and sites suitable for the [...]
By Kent Garber
In the midst of renewed global interest in nuclear energy, a long-overlooked nuclear fuel, thorium, is being re-examined as a potential solution to some of the industry’s most daunting problems, including disposal of waste.
Widely available in the sandy beaches of India, Australia, and the United States, among other places, thorium is a [...]
