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France Nukes It With Growing Energy Deals Washington DC (UPI) July 30, 2007 
The sudden flurry of controversy that erupted over France's new deal to supply a nuclear power station to Libya may have missed the point. It was a striking coup by France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy to make the sale as part of the agreement he helped engineer to release the Bulgarian nurses from their long and unjust detention in Libya. It was also a characteristic piece of French president ... read more
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France And India Hold Nuclear Cooperation Talks
New Delhi (AFP) Jul 30, 2007Indian and French officials held talks on nuclear energy cooperation Monday and pledged to work on an accord similar to ones New Delhi has signed with the United States and Russia. French President Nicolas Sarkozy's diplomatic adviser met with India's national security advisor M.K. Narayanan and exchanged invitations for state visits to each country, a statement from the French embassy said. "Bo ... more German Ministry Warns Siemens Against Stake In Libya Nuclear Deal 
Berlin (AFP) Jul 30, 2007The German environment ministry warned German engineering giant Siemens Monday against participating in a French deal to build a nuclear reactor in Libya. Siemens holds a 34-percent stake in the Franco-German nuclear engineering joint venture Areva NP, which is to supply the nuclear technology to Libya in a deal that has drawn criticism from throughout the European Union. "We must know what Siem ... more German Opposition To French-Libyan Nuclear Deal Unabated 
Berlin (AFP) Jul 30, 2007German opposition mounted Saturday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new venture on the world stage in agreeing to build a nuclear reactor in Libya, despite efforts by Paris to reassure Berlin. The French government on Friday had sought to allay German fears of "recklessness" by assuring Berlin that all guarantees had been taken with regard to nuclear non-proliferation. The French-Libyan acc ... more China-France Nuclear Deal Signing Postponed 
Paris (AFP) Jul 30, 2007The planned signing Tuesday of a letter of intent by China and France on the construction in China of two nuclear reactors by the French group Areva has been postponed, a French source said Monday. But he stressed that "the principle of a letter of intent remains intact, with the date (of the signing) to be decided. The initial date of July 31... was postponed for technical and calendar reasons. ... more UN Inspectors Check Key Iran Nuclear Site 
Tehran (AFP) Jul 30, 2007A group of UN atomic inspectors on Monday visited a heavy water reactor in Iran that is one of the key Western concerns over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme, officials said. The visit, agreed in talks between Iran and the UN atomic agency, was the first inspection since Iran in April blocked access to the plutonium-producing research reactor, which lies outside the central town of Arak. ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 31, 2007Politicians in Kiev are busy looking for an alternative to Russia as a builder of nuclear power plants. At any rate, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk hastened to announce after a meeting last week with his Canadian counterpart, Peter Gordon MacKay, that Ukraine was resuming talks with Canadian companies on the construction of CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) nuclear reactors in Ukrain ... more ASEAN Urges Nuclear Powers To Back Treaty 
Manila (AFP) Jul 29, 2007Southeast Asian nations on Sunday urged the world's nuclear powers to sign on to a regional treaty aimed at keeping their corner of the world free of atomic weapons. Ahead of the Asian security summit, the 10-country Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) said the five nuclear powers that are permanent UN Security Council members should sign a protocol to the treaty. The call came as AS ... more San Jose Sets Up Largest K-12 Solar Power And Energy Efficiency Program In US 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2007San Jose Unified School District announced that it has entered into a unique partnership with Chevron Energy Solutions and Bank of America to establish what is believed to be the largest solar power and energy-efficient facilities program in K-12 education in the United States. The program, which includes installation of five megawatts of solar power, is expected to provide the following benefit ... more TrendSetter Introduces New Solar Tank Product The PiggyBack System 
Fairhaven CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2007TrendSetter Solar Products has announced the introduction of its new Solar Tank Product, named the "PiggyBack", for the fact that a traditional hot water heater sits on top of this new solar hot water tank and works by circulating solar heated water into the traditional hot water heater. This new tank has several key advantages over the standard TrendSetter residential systems and will prove to ... more |
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Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 30, 2007The University of South Florida, in partnership with Progress Energy Florida, has purchased two 5kW x 4hr VRB Energy Storage Systems from VRB Power Systems tha will be integrated with a solar project on the St. Petersburg campus of the University of South Florida. This project is aimed at evaluating the storage of intermittent solar photovoltaic energy and utilizing that energy at a time of maxi ... more SunPower Dedicates 330 Megawatt Solar Cell Fab 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2007SunPower has dedicated its second solar cell fabrication facility, known as cell Fab 2, in the Philippines. The dedication of cell Fab 2 will take place on July 30, 2007 at the new plant, located in Batangas, south of Manila. President Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines and The Honorable Raphael P. M. Lotilla, secretary of energy, will be on hand to help inaugurate the facility which has been r ... more XsunX To Offer Solar Module Production Capacity To Solar System Integrators 
Aliso Viejo CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2007XsunX plans for the build-out of a 100MW thin-film solar module production facility are proceeding on schedule, both internally and with its equipment vendors. Site selection is underway, engineering is scheduled to begin at the end of this month, and the first phase of system production is slated to begin later this year. Given this continued progress, XsunX is now preparing to launch mar ... more Africa Starts To Gear Up For Biofuels 
Dakar (AFP) Jul 29, 2007Faced with mounting energy crises, many African nations in recent years have zealously launched projects to produce cheaper biofuels, but few have gained steam. One fervent advocate of biofuels, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, said during a trip to Brazil, a leading ethanol supplier, that biofuels would set in motion "a new revolution in Africa." Wade boasted that the African continent was ... more
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