Posts Tagged ‘nuclear energy’

Nuclear power vital to UK’s energy mix

November 1st, 2009

Nuclear energy is currently one part of the UK’s power resource and will continue to be so in the future, a sustainable website has claimed.
According to the Renewable Energy Centre (REC), nuclear energy is safer than it is perceived and cleaner than fossil fuels.
The UK needs to rely on different sources and energy to ensure [...]

Energy review backs no nuclear scotland

June 30th, 2009

Scotland’s energy future should be based on non-nuclear sources.
The SNP today welcomed a report from the Parliament’s Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee which supported the Scottish Government’s plans for Scotland to build a clean, green and renewable energy future as SNP MSP Rob Gibson called for the UK Government to release £150 million of potential [...]

Nebraska experience makes case for more nuclear energy

May 26th, 2009

Sen. Ben Nelson
For more than a third of a century, Nebraska has been a leader in nuclear production and can serve as a model in addressing our Nation’s energy and environmental needs. While our state only has two nuclear plants — Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station north of Omaha and Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville — [...]

Nuclear, Low-Carbon Platform Solutions To Climate Change - G8

May 26th, 2009

ROME (Dow Jones)–Energy ministers from the world’s eight richest nations Monday said they would increasingly emphasize nuclear energy and the creation of a common low-carbon technology platform as solutions to climate change and supply insecurity.
The statement comes as a number of countries, including the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, are turning their attention to once-unpopular [...]

Malaysia’s first nuclear power plant an option

May 26th, 2009

TERENGGANU: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) targets to commission the first nuclear power plant in Malaysia by 2025 if the government decides to include nuclear as an acceptable energy option.
Head of nuclear energy unit TNB, Dr Mohd Zamzam Jaafar said TNB cannot ignore nuclear energy amid the uncertain future supply and volatile fossil fuel prices as [...]

Solar Takes a Backseat in National Climate and Energy Bill

May 21st, 2009

by Annie Carmichael and Jim Baak, Vote Solar Initiative
For the past eight years solar advocates throughout the United States lamented the lack of federal leadership on renewable energy issues. If only we had a President who fully realized the economic, environmental, and moral obligation to stem global warming and increase our domestic clean [...]

Obama Approves Nuclear Energy Program for UAE

May 21st, 2009

By Mary Beth Sheridan
The White House said today that President Obama has approved an agreement to help build a nuclear-energy program in the United Arab Emirates, setting up a congressional review of the controversial accord.
The agreement was reached at the end of the administration of President George W. Bush, and left for Obama to shepherd [...]

Rethinking nuclear power

May 16th, 2009

MICHIGAN is in the grip of a ferocious recession now, but the state’s energy providers are betting that, sooner or later, the economy will improve and the state’s demand for electric power will increase.
Building generating plants takes years, and various utilities have filed permit requests to construct five new coal-fired facilities, with three more requests [...]

Japan, Russia Sign Nuclear Supply, Technology Pact

May 12th, 2009

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 [...]

Japan, Russia Sign Nuclear Supply, Technology Pact

May 12th, 2009

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 [...]