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South Korea Seeks Nuclear Energy Ties With Indonesia And Thailand
Seoul (AFP) Jul 30, 2007 A South Korea delegation has left for Indonesia and Thailand as part of efforts to export civilian nuclear reactors and technology, officials said Monday. The Ministry of Science and Technology said the eight-member delegation of government officials and civilian experts would visit Jakarta Monday and Tuesday before making a three-day trip to Bangkok. "The visit is aimed at expanding nuclear energy cooperation with Southeast Asian countries," a ministry spokesman told AFP. The ministry said South Korea would offer technology and training for Indonesia's proposed civilian nuclear programme. The two countries signed a nuclear cooperation pact last December, part of Jakarta's plan to operate its first commercial reactor by 2016. It aims to have four nuclear power units by 2025. The ministry said similar talks would take place with Thailand, focusing on the use of nuclear energy for medical and research purposes. Currently, South Korea is ranked sixth after the United States, France, Japan, Russia and Germany in terms of the use of civilian nuclear technology and safety, the ministry said. South Korea operates 19 nuclear plants which generate about 40 percent of its electricity needs. It hopes to boost this to 60 percent by 2035. In January, South Korea announced plans to spend 2.44 trillion won (2.65 billion dollars) over five years to build its own light-water nuclear reactors and develop fuel technology.
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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 accord, which envisions building a nuclear reactor for a water desalination plant, is "a bitter pill for the EU," said Ruprecht Polenz, conservative head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of the German parliament, the Bundestag, in the newspaper Tagesspiegel am Sonntag. |
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