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Taking the Short Route to National Disaster
We have just been reading "Attention Canada! Preparing for our Energy Future", sent to us by a member, Michael Payton. It is not a definitive document, just a discussion paper from a Senate committee in a country ranked second in the world for crude oil reserves and uranium production and third for hydro-electricity and natural gas production.
It records that earlier this year at a Vancouver conference seeking business solutions to environmental problems and attended by nine of the committee's senators, the hall erupted with enthusiastic applause when a woman participant said: "What we really need is a Canadian energy strategy". Read more...
17 Jul (NucNet): France's Areva group is to support academic studies at
a university in Bulgaria to help support the development of nuclear
engineering skills.
16 Jul (NucNet): British Energy (BE) says it recruited more than 400
skilled workers in 2007 as the company prepares for a potential
programme of nuclear new-build in the UK.
16 Jul (NucNet): The nuclear share of total electricity production in
countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) was more than 21 percent in 2007, according to new figures
published today by the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA).
16 Jul (NucNet): The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) has
approved the proposed construction of two AP1000 reactor units on a
greenfield site in the Florida's southern Levy County.
15 Jul (NucNet): A new opinion poll indicates that the majority of
Japanese believe nuclear energy to be of least importance in achieving
a low-carbon society.
14 Jul (NucNet): Canada's Cameco Corporation and Japan's Mitsubishi
Corporation have signed an agreement to jointly acquire the Kintyre
uranium exploration project in the state of Western Australia for 495
million US dollars (USD) (311 million euro).
14 Jul (NucNet): British prime minister Gordon Brown is "convinced"
that a renaissance of nuclear power is necessary if continued oil
dependence and unchecked climate change are to be avoided.
11 Jul (NucNet): France's Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) is to continue
"special surveillance" of two small rivers - La Gaffière and Le Lauzon
- near the Tricastin nuclear site following an incident earlier this
week when a solution containing 12 grams of natural uranium per litre
entered the rainwater drainage system after overflowing from a tank.
11 Jul (NucNet): India has unveiled the text of a draft safeguards
agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that could
give it access to the world's nuclear fuel market.
11 Jul (NucNet): The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has
welcomed a report published yesterday which says the cost of
decommissioning nuclear energy sites in the country could rise
"significantly" above the 73 billion pounds (GBP) (144 billion US
dollars, 91 billion euro) already estimated.
11 Jul (NucNet): Japan's nuclear industry says it has a "fresh resolve"
to expand the use of nuclear energy following the G8 summit of leading
industrialised nations in Hokkaido which ended on 9 July 2008.
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