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Germany’s ambitious plan to phase out nuclear power by 2020 while also reducing its reliance on fossil fuels has made it a leader in efforts to fulfil the Kyoto protocol.
But critics are now predicting an energy crisis.
Tony Blair is preparing to commit the country to the biggest nuclear power programme since the 1960s if he wins the forthcoming general election.
In a short letter sent today to the White House, nearly 50 environmental, business, anti-nuclear, sustainable energy, and energy policy organizations disputed a recent statement by President Bush that nuclear power is a “renewable source of energy.”
The hydrogen economy is really a nuclear economy. Investors and the rest of corporate America may not realise how close the country is to making a gigantic bet on a nuclear future.
Andrew Michelmore, the chief executive of the Australian mining group WMC Resources, will tell investors in London this week that the world faces a shortage of uranium and that his company has the world’s biggest deposit of the metal.
On the site where border guards used to keep watch on the western outpost of the Soviet Union, Baltic European Union newcomer Estonia is erecting a wind farm to generate clean electricity.
Prices for uranium, used to generate 16 percent of the world’s electricity, may rise by a quarter this year as stockpiles of the nuclear fuel decrease and demand is set to rise from reactors being built in China and India.
Head of the Russian Federation`s Atomic Energy Agency Alexander
Rumyantsev said on Saturday that Russia may construct seven other
nuclear power plants in Iran.
As the nuclear power industry stages a nationwide comeback, New England is emerging as a major battleground in the industry’s campaign to be recognized as a ”green” energy source.
The sorry state of British Energy?s operations were under-scored on Friday
when the company reported a bigger than expected £234m pre-tax loss for the
six months to the end of September.
In a new review of cold fusion – the claim that energy can be generated by running electrical current through water – the US Department of Energy released a report yesterday that says the evidence remains inconclusive, echoing a similar report 15 years ago.
After a week of intense bargaining, Iran has again agreed to suspend its uranium enrichment program to avert United Nations sanctions, further undermining US-led international efforts to curb Tehran’s nuclear capabilities. And with the emergence of an ever-stronger partnership between China and Iran, Washington’s woes are far from over.
