SAfrica stays out of Nuke Fuel Club to keep economic right to enrichment
Vienna (AFP) Sept 18, 2007
South Africa is holding off on joining a US-led initiative to spread atomic power because it does not want to give up its right to enrich uranium, a senior South African official said Tuesday. Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica told reporters at a meeting of the UN atomic agency in Vienna that South Africa had received an invitation to join the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership ... read more
Areva official to visit China pending EPR contract
Paris (AFP) Sept 18, 2007
The head of French nuclear company Areva plans to pay a working visit to China soon as the company awaits confirmation of two contracts for third-generation EPRs (European Pressurised water Reactors), Areva said on Tuesday. An Areva spokesman said company chief executive Anne Lauvergeon "will go to China soon for a working visit as part of the frequent visits that she pays to the country." ... more
Indian Communists demand delay to US nuclear deal
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 18, 2007
Communist allies of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued a fresh warning Tuesday against implementing a controversial civilian nuclear deal with the United States. Communist Party head Prakash Karat said the government should put the pact on hold for six months and give lawmakers a chance to decide whether it threatens India's sovereignty and if it would curb its military capability. ... more
Squabble over airline carbon emissions takes flight
Montreal (AFP) Sept 18, 2007
Draft measures to clip airlines' skyrocketing greenhouse gas emissions are creating a rift at the 36th International Civil Aviation Organization talks, which kicked off here Tuesday. Representatives of 190 nations are meeting in Montreal this week to decide which course to plot to curb CO2 emissions linked to global warming, as the EU readies to take unilateral action to force airlines to ... more
Analysis: Iraq, oil and Greenspan's Gospel
Washington (UPI) Sep 18, 2007
History and reality cap the fallout from former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's one-liner in his new book that the war in Iraq is "largely about oil."
The mere 20 words in the 500-plus page memoir elicited much media hype and a prompt defense from the Bush administration. Greenspan used the media circuit to qualify -- though not contradict -- what he originally wrote. "I am ... more
Advance By Chemists May Lead To Better Displays On Laptop Computers And Cell Phones
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2007
UCLA chemists working at the nanoscale have developed a new, inexpensive means of forcing luminescent polymers to give off polarized light and of confining that light to produce polymer-based lasers. The research, which could lead to a brighter polarized light source for LEDs in laptop computers, cell phones and other consumer electronics devices, currently appears in the advance online edition ... more
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AEROSPACE
Boeing Projects 340 Billion Dollar Market For New Airplanes In China
ENERGY TECH
Chad president to hold Darfur talks in China
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate change tops future humanitarian challenges: Annan
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Hong Kong must cut pollution to attract foreign cash: study
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 17, 2007
Hong Kong must take drastic action to slash pollution to keep attracting foreign investors and protect public health, a new study released Monday said. The city should follow the examples of Los Angeles and London, which have reaped the benefits from tougher emission targets and innovative anti-pollution measures, the Civic Exchange, a leading think-tank, said in a report. "Air ... more
Climate talks in Montreal to take dual aim
Montreal (AFP) Sept 17, 2007
Representatives of 190 countries will meet in Montreal Monday for talks on the twin goals of combating global warming and restoring the ozone layer. The discussions come as part of a UN-sponsored conference marking the 20th anniversary of signing of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty seeking to end production of chemical compounds that contribute to ozone depletion. ... more
Pesticide blamed for 'health disaster' in French Caribbean
Paris (AFP) Sept 17, 2007
The French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique face a "health disaster" with soaring cancer and infertility rates because of the massive use of banned pesticides on banana plantations, a top cancer specialist warned Monday. Martinique and Guadeloupe are currently facing "an extremely serious crisis linked to the massive use of pesticides for a great many years," Professor ... more
China to hold first-ever 'no car day' on Saturday
Beijing (AFP) Sept 17, 2007
China will initiate its first-ever nationwide "no car day" this weekend in an effort to promote environmental health and alleviate increasingly gridlocked urban roads, state press said Monday. Residents in 108 cities will be urged to take public transport, ride bikes or walk on the nation's first "no car day" on Saturday, the China Daily reported. "The move is an attempt to raise ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
Vietnam sends highly enriched uranium to Russia
ENERGY TECH
Maxwell Technologies Introduces 75-Volt Ultracapacitor Module For Renewable Energy Industrial Applications
ENERGY TECH
EOS Estate Winery Converts Entirely To Solar Power
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Praxair And Foster Wheeler Form Alliance To Pursue Clean Coal Demonstration Projects
Danbury CT (SPX) Sep 18, 2007
Praxair and Foster Wheeler North America have signed a multi-year agreement that calls for the joint pursuit of certain demonstration projects that will incorporate clean coal technologies and integrated oxy-coal combustion systems into coal-fired electric generating plants to facilitate capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2). ... more
Construction Begins On First-of-Its-Kind Advanced Clean Coal Electric Generating Facility
Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 18, 2007
Officials representing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Southern Company, KBR and the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) broke ground to begin construction of an advanced 285-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) facility near Orlando, Fla. The new generating station will be among the cleanest, most efficient coal-fueled power plants in the world. Southern Company ... more
New Jersey's Largest Electrical Workers Union Joins Clean Reliable Energy Coalition
Trenton NJ (SPX) Sep 18, 2007
The 35,000-member New Jersey chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and Local Union 1289 has joined the growing membership of the New Jersey Affordable, Clean, Reliable Energy Coalition (NJ ACRE). With more than 750,000 members throughout the United States and Canada, the IBEW represents workers employed in a variety of industries including utilities, construction ... more
New shell to cover deadly Chernobyl
Kiev (AFP) Sept 17, 2007
French consortium Novarka signed a contract Monday with Ukraine to shut away the radioactive heart of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a multi-million-euro protective cover designed to last a hundred years. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and the French trade minister, Herve Novelli, oversaw the signing by the consortium, which includes French builders Bouygues and Vinci. ... more
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SPACEMART
Indian Institute Of Space Science And Technology (IIST) Inaugurated
FARM NEWS
HARDY Rice: Less Water, More Food
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Worst pollution sites include India, China: survey
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