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The UK energy bill received a second reading in the country's lower house on
22 January. Business and enterprise minister John Hutton said he hoped
for a nuclear renaissance.
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US energy secretary Sam Bodman has acknowledged the importance of nuclear during a tour of the Middle East. Meanwhile, President George Bush has given his approval to a US-Turkey nuclear cooperation agreement.
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New nuclear power is at the heart of the UK government's low carbon energy bill. Private companies were invited today to propose plans to build new reactors.
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Veteran campaigner Sir Bob Geldof has used a hybrid energy blog to call for nuclear power in the UK. He wrote that to really save the planet "we have to go nuclear" and "we're going to go with it, big-time."
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A consensus report by US intelligence agencies has concluded that Iran halted work on developing nuclear weapons in 2003, reversing the conclusion of a 2005 report.
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Canada's silence on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership ended yesterday with the announcement that it would join the scheme. A range of deals with the Russian nuclear industry were also announced.
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The change of government in Australia from John Howard's Liberal Coalition to the Australian Labor Party led by Kevin Rudd is not expected to change, for the worse, the country's uranium mining and exploration policies or investment climate for uranium and may change them for the better.
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The
USA and Russia have confirmed a plan to dispose of 34 tonnes of surplus
plutonium from Russia's weapons program in fast reactors, rather than as MOX, and to continue the development of advanced GT-MHR reactors.
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Iran is
using 2952 centrifuge machines to enrich uranium, contrary to the
decisions of the UN Security Council. The country is cooperating with
the International Atomic Energy Agency, but only in a reactive way
'insufficent for full implementation of verification work'.
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Member states of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) have unanimously adopted a statement on the need for qualified human resources in the nuclear field, reflecting their concerns about difficulties in recruiting qualified specialists.
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Despite a ban on the use of nuclear energy, Italy has joined the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), becoming the 17th nation to do so. An energy research and development bilateral with the USA was signed, as well as the GNEP Statement of Principles.
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Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh suffered another setback to his nuclear power plans when Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to authorise export of four nuclear power plants to India. Meanwhile, US diplomacy has had little effect on his political opponents.
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Albania has proposed the construction of a nuclear power plant, not only to meet its own energy demands, but also to export electricity to neighbouring Balkan countries and across the Adriatic Sea to Italy.
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Anti-nuclear group Sortir du Nucleaire has claimed that France could phase out all its nuclear power plants within ten or even five years - although the group acknowledges that its proposed energy saving measures would involve a certain degree of personal discomfort.
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