ENERGY-DAILY.Com brings you daily news on energy technology - it's manufacture, it's distribution and it's application 20-NOV-09 en-us Paris (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - France has for decades been fiercely proud of its world-beating nuclear industry but is now having to import electricity from its neighbours and could face blackouts this winter. ]]> Tokyo (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - Smoke rose Thursday from the world's largest nuclear power plant in Japan, which was shut down by an earthquake two years ago, but the operator said no-one was injured and there was no radiation leak.]]> Paris (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - Emerging market economies China and India are poised to accelerate due to strong stimulus measures while Japan's recession has "bottomed out" and its economy will pick up, the OECD projected Thursday.]]> Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 20, 2009 - New MIT research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, and turn it into usable electricity.]]> Geneva (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - Energy industry leaders on Thursday called for an international deal on climate change to tackle financial uncertainty and prevent potentially catastrophic global warming.]]> Rier, Sudan (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - Visitors to Rier, in southern Sudan, are welcomed by a large rectangular tank and a freshly-painted sign trumpeting the White Nile Petroleum Operating Company's initiative to supply drinking water.]]> Port Harcourt, Nigeria (UPI) Nov 18, 2009 - A cease-fire in Nigeria's oil war appeared to be under threat Wednesday after army soldiers destroyed the home of one of their commanders. But to some observers, the episode was part of a bizarre pre-election ritual.]]> Washington (AFP) Nov 18, 2009 - The US government took the first steps Wednesday to reverse a last-minute rule passed by the Bush administration which allowed coal mine operators to dump excavated material into streams. ]]> Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2009 - Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution - a well-recognized problem at major airports - may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. Those airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems.]]> Mountain View, California (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - Google on Thursday provided a peek beneath the hood of its new Chrome operating system, making the software public and promising it will run netbooks by the end of next year.]]> Moscow (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - The fight against road deaths, an "epidemic" that costs the lives of 1.3 million people every year, should become a top global priority, experts and ministers said Thursday.]]> Paris (AFP) Nov 17, 2009 - French nuclear giant Areva said Tuesday it had signed a 15-year contract with Czech electricity group CEZ to provide uranium enrichment services for the Temelin nuclear power plant.]]> London (UPI) Nov 19, 2009 - British defense giant BAE Systems on Wednesday submitted a last-minute bid in the race for a $1.7 billion contract to modernize Britain's fleet of infantry tanks.]]>