World Nuclear News reports Russia and India making new agreements on nuclear power.
The two nuclear cooperation agreements were signed in India by Rosatom chief Sergei Kiryenko and Kumar Banerjee, secretary of India’s Department of Atomic Energy, in the presence of the two countries’ prime ministers. Other cooperation agreements, on a Russian satellite navigation system and on [...]
UPI reports U.S. energy secretary in Washington says US should take its position as a global leader in nuclear energy again.
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse Electric Co. and San Diego’s General Atomics were selected for a $40 million effort to design and plan work for the next generation of U.S. nuclear power plants.
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The Australian reports James Hansen, a high-profile climate scientist suggests the urgency of undertaking the next generation nuclear power.
“We should undertake urgent focused research and development programs in next generation nuclear power,” said atmospheric physicist James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New [...]
AP reports nuclear energy gets a boost from French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Poor countries need nuclear power, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday, urging rich lenders to help pay for a global nuclear expansion in the interests of fighting climate change and feeding the growing world hunger for energy.
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AP reports French President says all developing countries should embrace nuclear energy.
“We need nuclear energy” to meet global goals for fighting and slowing climate change, Sarkozy said in opening an international conference in Paris on the future of nuclear power.
He wants France, which is reliant on atomic reactors for a large majority of its electricity, to [...]
Uranium-stocks.net reports on an interview with National Public Radio on Hyperion Power.
Hyperion Power Generation’s CEO, John R. Grizz Deal will be a featured guest interviewed on tomorrow’s (March 5) Science Friday show on NPR: National Public Radio. Deal will be joined on the program by Dr. Richard Lester from MIT who is the founding Director [...]
Early this week, US President Barack Obama is expected to announce a loan guarantee for two new reactors that will be built by Southern Company in Burke, Georgia.
Southern Co will be the first nuclear energy firm to take advantage of The Energy Policy Act of 2005, which allows the Department of Energy to issue loan [...]
Japanese private utilities firms have some stiff competition especially when it comes to state-backed utilities companies looking to secure uranium and nuclear contracts, especially Korean companies.
“Uranium in particular stands to benefit from the nuclear renaissance, in our view, which appears to be kicking into high gear,” says Bart Jaworski, analyst at Raymond James.
Japan, which obtains [...]
The world needs power. The US Department of Energy forecasts that the United States will need 28 per cent more electricity by 2035. Overall, world energy demand is expected to increase by more than 50 per cent by 2030. How will we be able to meet this demand?
The message Gale gave was clear. The world [...]
The world needs power. The US Department of Energy forecasts that the United States will need 28 per cent more electricity by 2035. Overall, world energy demand is expected to increase by more than 50 per cent by 2030. How will we be able to meet this demand?
When it comes to green energy- nuclear energy [...]
Monday, March 15, 2010
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