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• Nuclear News Roundup for 12/13/09

  UAE mega-nuclear deal gets put on on ice The $40 billion deal for at least three and as many as five nuclear reactors to be built in the United Arab Emirates is on ice, and this time it is serious.  According to a Dec 12 wire service report from Mumbai, India, an executive with a firm reportedly bidding on the project said the UAE has pushed back the award date from December 2009 to at least March... Posted Dec 13 2009, 08:49 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, nuclear blogs, UAE, news round up, united arab emirates

• India’s climate change goals and nuclear energy

  A series of groundbreaking deals are part of a drive to build 20 GWe by 2020 The visit to the U.S. of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the week before Thanksgiving was marked by a series of events related to India’s commitments to action on climate change and the use of nuclear energy to meet them. At the same time, Singh signed new cooperative agreements with Canada and Russia for trade in nuclear... Posted Dec 06 2009, 09:29 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Nuclear energy, climate change

• William Ramsey on emerging nuclear markets

  Nuclear Becomes ‘A Real Business Opportunity’ For China and India This is the full text of an interview with William Ramsay , (right) director of the energy program at the Institut Français  des Relations Internationales    He talked Nov 9 to NucNet about emerging nuclear markets India and China, and the future of Yucca Mountain. [Reprinted with permission.] NucNet – Before joining the... Posted Nov 10 2009, 10:23 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, China, Yucca Mountain, financials, economics, opportunity, ramsey, business

• Hot fuel could freeze U.S. nuclear trade with India

  India - No reactor deals without reprocessing U.S. vendors of nuclear reactors seeking to build at least 10 GWe of civilian facilities in India to generate electricity may be frozen out of the market over the issue of reprocessing of the spent fuel from the plants.  In an exclusive report in The Hindu March 6, Siddharth Varadarajan writes that India has formally requested the start of negotiations... Posted Mar 08 2009, 10:25 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear fuel reprocessing, India, trade

• India opens doors for nuclear energy

  French and Russian firms are in with major deals Areva, the world’s biggest manufacturer of nuclear reactors, has signed a deal with India to sell at least two and possibly six 1,600 MWe EPR nuclear reactors according to a report by Bloomberg wire service.  The reactor deal is worth an estimated at $6-9 billion for the first two reactors.  They will be built at Jaitapur in the western state... Posted Feb 08 2009, 02:21 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Russia, EPR

• U.S. nuclear passage to India

  Three dozen U.S. firms, and 60 executives, travel to Mumbai  for trade discussions The U.S. India Business Council concluded this week a historic trade mission to India to ink deals for nuclear fuel and reactor technologies.  The U.S. Department of Commerce officially sanctioned the trade mission on behalf of the federal government. It is the first commercial nuclear trade mission to visit... Posted Jan 18 2009, 02:12 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, New Nuclear Plants

• India enters the nuclear renaissance

  Change occurs in the blink of an eye and also over a lifetime Two months ago when Nitin Pai, the editor of Pagati, a political journal in India, asked me to write an article on that nation's entry into the nuclear renaissance, I had no idea it would publish in the context of international turmoil over the terrorist attacks which took place in Mumbai last week. The most immediate impact in terms... Posted Dec 02 2008, 09:30 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, nuclear renaissance

• Flash - U.S. India nuclear trade mission off

  Terrorist attacks in Mumbai are reason it will be re-scheduled to a later date The U.S.-India Business Council ( USIBC ) told this blog via email  today Nov 28 the official U.S. Trade Mission for nuclear energy , scheduled to take place starting Dec 2, will be re-scheduled to a later date.  A spokesman for the Council said the reason was the terrorist attacks which took place in Mumbai this... Posted Nov 28 2008, 01:42 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India

• Russia inks huge Indian nuclear deal

  Four new reactors for 4,200 MW will be built at Kudankulam Sergey Kiriyenko , (right) Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corp., visited the construction site of India's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant ( Tamilnadu , Southern India), on Nov 20 and inked a deal on the spot which will be ratified next month.  In December Russian President Dimitry Medvedev visits New Delhi.  Indian... Posted Nov 21 2008, 04:27 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Russia

• India's global shopping trip

  The global financial crisis means uranium can be had at a deep discount India faces a wide open market for nuclear fuel according to Shyam Saran (right), a special envoy for the prime minister for the nuclear deal cleared last month by the NSG and the U.S. Congress.  With its ticket punched based on political commitments, Saran told Bloomberg wire service, "This creates a favorable condition... Posted Oct 26 2008, 04:25 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India

• Senate approves India's nuclear deal

  The House voted for it earlier this week Congress approved a landmark deal ending the three-decade ban on U.S. nuclear trade with India. Reuters reports final approval came as the Senate voted to ratify the deal 86-13, sending the legislation to President Bush to sign into law. The Senate's move was taken just prior to an expected trip to India by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The House... Posted Oct 01 2008, 10:03 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Nuclear energy

• Nuclear Suppliers Group approves India deal

  A breakthrough comes in Vienna after three days of tough negotiations The BBC reports the group of nations which regulates the global nuclear trade has approved a US proposal to lift restrictions on selling nuclear technology to India. The controversial deal now needs to be ratified by the US Congress. The approval came after India pledged to keep its nuclear non-proliferation commitments and to uphold... Posted Sep 06 2008, 11:08 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Nuclear Suppliers Group, nuclear deal

• India nuclear deal down to the wire

  Latest wire service reports ~ updates throughout the day (1400 GMT) Reuters reports that delegates to the meeting of the  Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) taking place in Vienna, Austria, today (9/5) said India's pledges to honor the nuclear nonproliferation treaty do not go far enough. Member countries are worried that India could set off a regional nuclear arms race if it acquires uranium enrichment... Posted Sep 05 2008, 10:01 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Nuclear Suppliers Group

• India nuclear deal hits the rocks

  Rep, Howard Berman releases a secret letter to Congress  Check Siddharth Varadarajan's blog for late breaking developments and reports direct from Vienna. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. will not sell sensitive nuclear technologies to India and would immediately terminate all trade involving nuclear technologies if New Delhi conducted a nuclear test. Apparently, the State Department... Posted Sep 03 2008, 09:54 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India

• India deal may be done in by a six pack

  Nuclear Suppliers Group likely to say "no" to U.S. plan to sell uranium to India The U.S. nuclear deal with India is likely to fail to gain approval   this week by an international body that controls the sale of uranium, nuclear fuel, and related technologies.  Six small but influential nations are standing firm in their opposition within the Nuclear Suppliers Group ( NSG Read... Posted Sep 01 2008, 11:19 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, Nuclear Suppliers Group