Nuclear Power

Canada celebrates 50 years of nuclear power generation

06/04/2012 - 23:39

On June 4th, 1962, in Rolphton, Ontario, the Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) reactor began supplying electricity to the Ontario grid. Today, Candu nuclear reactors supply 15 percent of Canada’s electricity and almost 60 percent in Ontario alone. Candu …

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IAEA chief says Iran may have cleaned site of nuclear weapons test

06/04/2012 - 21:45

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said publicly for the first time Monday that the U.N. agency suspects Iran has been cleaning away traces of a 2003 nuclear weapons test ahead of possible inspections of the military facility south of …

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U.N. nuclear officials to meet with Iranians

06/04/2012 - 21:31

Enlarge Photo Yukiya Amano (center), director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ... more > VIENNA, Austria — The U.N. nuclear agency chief on Monday announced new talks with Iran and urged it to sign a deal that would relaunch …

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Candu celebrates 50 years of nuclear power generation in Canada and looks to the future

06/04/2012 - 20:39

MISSISSAUGA, ON, June 4, 2012 /CNW/ - Candu Energy Inc. joins Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) and the Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA) today to celebrate the 50th anniversary of nuclear power generation in Canada. On June 4th, 1962, in Rolphton, …

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UN urges Iran to fulfil its obligations to ensure peaceful nuclear programme

06/04/2012 - 18:23

The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog today called on Iran to fulfil its international obligations to ensure that its nuclear programme is of an exclusively peaceful nature. “Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation to enable the agency to …

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IAEA chief urges Iran to sign nuclear deal as new talks set

06/04/2012 - 18:10

Iran: Head of the UN nuclear agency called on Iran on Monday to sign a deal giving greater transparency on its nuclear drive and announced that new talks with Tehran would be held this week. At the opening of a week-long meeting of the International …

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Nuclear Monitor Announces New Talks with Iran

06/04/2012 - 17:49

The top United Nations nuclear official announced new talks with Iran on Monday aimed at gaining access to restricted sites, and he expressed concern about satellite images taken last month that showed the Iranians had demolished buildings at one site …

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Inviting Atomic Catastrophe

06/04/2012 - 16:50

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be holding a meeting this week to consider having nuclear power plants run 80 years--although they were never seen as running for more than 40 years because of radioactivity embrittling metal parts and otherwise …

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Myanmar Abandons Nuclear Program: Defense Minister

06/04/2012 - 15:54

Myanmar has formally abandoned its pursuit of nuclear power and has also scaled back its military and political ties with North Korea, the country’s defense minister said over the weekend. "We have already said very clearly [our nuclear program] was …

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Burma’s nuclear plans are over, says defence minister

06/04/2012 - 13:31

Burma’s government has halted fledgling research on the peaceful use of nuclear power, the country’s defence minister said Saturday. Lieutenant General Hla Min told an Asia security conference in Singapore that the academic research had not progressed …

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New Iran nuclear talks to be held

06/04/2012 - 12:51

4 June 2012 Last updated at 07:38 ET Iran has agreed to meet officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Friday for further talks about its nuclear activities. IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said he would urge Iran to allow early …

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Power Play or Justcie -Defense Says Taylor?s Trial ?Deeply Flawed?

06/04/2012 - 11:54

After six years of labyrinthine trial that drew strange witnesses from halfway around the globe, the 3-man Trial Chamber II of the Special Court of Sierra Leone, late last month, sentenced former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison – …

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Bob Williams: Dealing with Iran's nuclear threat

06/04/2012 - 10:56

The negotiations and sanctions surrounding Iran's current nuclear program have been much on the minds of our representatives lately. This is nothing new. Iran's nuclear ambitions go back to 1957 with President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace …

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Private Investor to Salvage Bulgaria's Flopped Nuclear Project

06/04/2012 - 10:42

A private investor could possibly purchase by the end of 2012 the abandoned project to build a second Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, in the Bulgarian Danube town of Belene, and pay the looming compensation fees. The statement was made by the Chairman of the …

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Iran doesn't expect new nuclear resolution at IAEA Board of Gov's meeting - envoy

06/04/2012 - 10:39

Iran doesn't expect new nuclear resolution at IAEA Board of Gov's meeting - envoy Azerbaijan, Baku, June 4 /Trend S.Isayev, D. Khatinoglu/ Iran is not expecting a new resolution on country's nuclear program at the upcoming IAEA Board of …

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IAEA to Inspect Ailing Gori Nuclear Reactor

06/04/2012 - 07:25

The International Atomic Energy Agency will inspect reactor No. 1 in the nuclear power plant in Gori, where a blackout occurred on Feb. 9, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. said on Sunday. The reactor has been shut down since the accident. The inspection …

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Burma ending nuclear program: minister

06/04/2012 - 05:04

Graeme Dobell, Singapore Last Updated: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:42:00 +1000 Burma says it is scrapping its nuclear program and will downgrade relations with North Korea. Announcing the end of the nuclear program, Burma's Defence Minister also said that as …

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Israel fitting nuclear arms on German-supplied subs: …

06/03/2012 - 23:48

Israel is arming submarines supplied and largely financed by Germany with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, influential German news weekly Der Spiegel reports in its issue to be published on Monday. The magazine said in a cover story likely to touch off a …

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Israel fitting nuclear arms on German-supplied subs: report

06/03/2012 - 22:55

BERLIN (AFP) - Israel is arming submarines supplied and largely financed by Germany with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, influential German news weekly Der Spiegel reports in its issue to be published on Monday. The magazine said in a cover story that …

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Report: Putin, Ahmadinejad to meet before nuclear talks

06/03/2012 - 16:46

(CNN) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in China next week before international talks are held on Iran's nuclear program in Moscow, Russia's state-run RIA-Novosti news agency reported Sunday. …

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