Weapons-ready plutonium shipped to France in unarmed ferry - Local & National - News - Belfast Telegraph
Plutonium suitable for nuclear bombs was secretly shipped last week from the controversial Sellafield nuclear complex to France on board an old, unarmed ro-ro ferry.\n\nThe shipment – originally due to take place in March, but postponed after an outcry - is the first of several due over the next few years.
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Europe Insight Europe's Nuclear Energy Woes - BusinessWeek
Rising energy costs and concerns over carbon dioxide emissions have focused minds in Europe’s utility sector. The response? A push to build more nuclear power plants that would reduce the amount of fuel (such as natural gas and coal) that’s imported and cut CO2 just as governments start to take a hard-line stance towards greenhouse gases.
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Europe.view | Lithuania split by the atom | Economist.com
As part of the deal to join the European Union, Lithuania agreed to close its perfectly serviceable nuclear-power station at Ignalina. No engineering or safety case for this was ever made: the requirement was a political one, sprouting from a neurotic strand of greenery in western Europe.
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The Oil Drum | EU Commission's Energy Strategy for Europe
Last Tuesday I was a witness of a very sad episode. Belgian riot police employed force against a group of French and Italian fishermen marching to the European quarter to protest violently against high price of fuel. A car crash occurred as a consequence of the riots. The frustration of the demonstration is easy to understand, but certainly demonstrations and street fights are not the answer to this problem. Oil prices are high and will go higher. No demonstration can change that.
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Javno - Croatia: Croatian Electrical Company Hid Info on Krsko
ZAGREB, CROATIA – Zagreb media have slammed the Croatian government because Croatia was the last to learn about what was going on at the Krsko nuclear power plant which is located in Slovenia, as well as what kind of malfunction it was.
Despite the fact that a quarter of Croatian citizens live in and around Zagreb, the Croatian Electrical Company (HEP) held back information that there had been a malfunction at the plant for more than three hours, The Earth Times reported.
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AFP: Slovenia under fire for misreporting nuclear plant shutdown
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AFP) — Slovenia was caught in a nuclear controversy Thursday after admitting that it wrongly told other countries that a water leak that forced it to shut down a nuclear reactor was only an exercise.
The shutdown on Wednesday led to the EU raising a Europe-wide radiation alert for the first time since the system was put in place in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster 22 years ago.
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Swedish police release two men after nuclear scare | Reuters
STOCKHOLM, May 22 (Reuters) - Swedish police said on Thursday they had released two men who had been held on suspicion of planning to sabotage a nuclear power station.
Police detained two contract workers on Wednesday after one of them was stopped in a security check at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant, on the southeast coast of Sweden, with traces of a highly explosive material thought to be TATP.
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Europeans Split Over Nuclear Power and Energy Strategy | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 22.05.2008
Ahead of a two-day European Nuclear Energy Forum meeting, DW-WORLD.DE spoke to both sides of the debate over whether Germany should stick to its total phase-out of nuclear power.
The European Nuclear Energy Forum was established in 2007 as a platform for discussing issues related to nuclear power -- with an eye toward arriving at common EU policy. It's starting its two-day second session on Thursday, May 22, in Prague.
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European Parliament - Parliament calls for a global ban on depleted uranium weapons
In a resolution adopted on depleted uranium (DU) weapons, the House calls for a moratorium on their use, increased pressure for an international treaty to ban them, and more research on these weapons. The resolution "strongly reiterates its call on all EU Member States and NATO countries to impose a moratorium on the use of depleted uranium weapons and to redouble efforts towards a global ban." The resolution was adopted with 491 votes in favour, 18 against and 12 abstentions.
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Whole of Cyprus would have to leave in case of nuclear accident
ASSOCIATE Professor of Physics and Vice-Rector of Cyprus University Costas Christofides described a forthcoming study by the Energy Service into the possible construction of a nuclear power station on the island as, “an absolute joke”.
On Thursday, the Director of the Service, Solon Kassinis, said that technological advancements, improved safety and cheaper electricity and water were all good arguments when considering such a possibility.
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Nukes: A Gorgeous Monument to Radioactive Decay
What do you do when you have a barn-sized pile of nuclear waste materials that you have to store for 100 years while it loses its toxicity? In the Netherlands, the answer was to stick it inside a giant art project: specifically, this orange building called the Habog Facility, covered in physics formulas by Einstein and Planck. Every twenty years, the building will be repainted in a lighter color to symbolize the slowly decaying radiation in the waste.
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EUROPE: New Safety Concerns Raised Over Nuclear Plants
PARIS, May 12 (IPS) - Some international organisations and governments in industrialised countries are pushing for further development of nuclear power, but amidst growing doubts over the safety of several nuclear installations.
Concerns have arisen particularly over nuclear power stations in France, Germany, and Bulgaria.
Environmental organisations such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth (FoE) are condemning the involvement of French bank BNP Paribas in construction of the nuclear power station at Belene near the Danube River in northern Bulgaria.
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Russians support more nuclear -- poll - UPI.com
MOSCOW, April 29 (UPI) -- A Russian survey suggests 41 percent of citizens support nuclear power.
Nearly half of all Russians think there will be no alternative to nuclear energy if Russia eventually runs out of crude oil and natural gas, the survey results suggest.
Eighteen percent favor the use of hydropower and 10 percent suggest coal, according to the Levada Center poll, the Daily News Bulletin reported.
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Energy debate rages on in Latvia as atomic plant prepares to close : Energy Environment
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The UK needs to rethink its 'romantic' energy policy or face disaster - Telegraph
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RIA Novosti - World - Russia proposes Slovakia join intl. uranium enrichment center-2
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