Ukraine and Russia said the supply of natural gas to Europe was completely shut off Wednesday, but each side blamed the other for the cut-off, which comes as Europe faces a wave of freezing temperatures.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian state-run gas company, Naftogaz Ukrainy, told CNN that Russian gas giant Gazprom had turned off all [...]
Bucharest. The BBC informs Romania has signed a deal to build two more reactors at its only nuclear power station, Cernavoda, on the Danube. The 4bn-euro deal gave a 49% stake to six European commercial partners - ArcelorMittal, CEZ, GDF Suez, Enel, Iberdrola and RWE Power. Romania’s state-controlled Nuclearelectrica will take part in the [...]
£13m shed-size reactors will be delivered by lorry
John Vidal and Nick Rosen
guardian.co.uk, Sunday November 9 2008 00.01 GMT
The Observer, Sunday November 9 2008
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Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which [...]
By ROBERT WIELAARD
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The EU’s top energy official will travel to Turkey and Azerbaijan Wednesday to show Europe’s commitment to a pipeline that would transport natural gas from the Caucasus westward in 2013, keeping it out of Russia’s grasp.
EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs will make a push for the Nabucco pipeline, [...]
By Judy Dempsey
Published: October 29, 2008
BERLIN: From the Baltic to Bulgaria, governments in Eastern Europe are increasingly looking toward a revival of nuclear power generation to meet growing energy demand.
The renewed interest in nuclear energy in a region that has been under intense pressure from the European Union to close unsafe older-generation plants coincides with [...]
From the Baltic to Bulgaria, governments in Eastern Europe are increasingly looking toward a revival of nuclear power generation to meet growing energy demand.
The renewed interest in nuclear energy in a region that has been under intense pressure from the European Union to close unsafe older- generation plants coincides with a lively debate in [...]
