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GE highlights cleaner, flexible, more efficient power generation technology solutions at Power-Gen Middle East 2012

Source country ameinfo-en Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:51:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] Nuclear[1]; Nuclear Energy[1];

Entities: Michael Sullivan[1]; Douglas McDonald[1];

Other categories: Environment (general); Trade; Alternative Energy;

Building on its long-standing commitment to support Qatar and the Middle East to generate efficient reliable and cleaner power, GE is showcasing a wide range of advanced energy technologies at the 2012 Power-Gen Middle East conference....

Articles published more than 40 minutes ago

'Blood brothers' facing similar fate

Source country koreatimes Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:17:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear energy[3]; nuclear[5]; nuclear reactors[1];

Entities: Michael Rubin[1]; David Cameron[1]; Lee Myung-bak[2]; Abdullah Gül[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Recep Tayyip Erdogan[6]; Angela Merkel[1]; Roh Moo Hyun[1]; Manmohan Singh[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis;

Korea-Turkey summit due today amid pressure to cut oil imports from Iran By Kang Hyun-kyung Seoul and Ankara refer to each other as “blood brothers” as nearly 1,000 Turkish soldiers lost their lives while fighting for South Korea during the Korean War (1950-53)....

Articles published more than 50 minutes ago

EN 6104/12

Source country consilium-europa Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:09:00 AM CET

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear energy[1]; nuclear[1];

Recommendation from the Commission to the Council on the approval of an Agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy between the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Government of South Africa...

Articles published more than 1 hour ago

Magnitude 5 Earthquake Strikes Near Iran’s Bushehr Nuke Plant

Source country rian-en Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:03:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear[3]; nuclear power[3]; nuclear power plant[3];

MOSCOW, February 5 (RIA Novosti) A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website on Sunday. The earthquake struck at 9:40 a.m. local time (06:10 GMT) on Sunday some 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Bushehr, with its epicenter registered at a depth of 10 km....

Liow: Make public details of Lynas temporary operating licence

Source country thestar-my Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:55:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] radioactive[1]; radioactive waste[1];

KUALA LUMPUR: The Government should make public the details of the temporary operating licence (TOL) given to Lynas Corp, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai....

Iran raid likely to drag in U.S. and hurt global economy (Reuters)

Source country news-yahoo Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:54:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] NUCLEAR[1]; Nuclear[1]; nuclear[15]; NUCLEAR INSPECTORS[1];

Entities: Richard Burt[1]; Tabassum Zakaria[1]; Andrew Quinn[1]; Danny Ayalon[1]; Martin Dempsey[1]; Zbigniew Brzezinski[1]; Steve Simon[1]; Ken Pollack[1]; Jon Alterman[1]; Peter Apps[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Mark Hosenball[1]; William Maclean[1]; Leon Panetta[1];

Other categories: Protected species;

Reuters - An Israeli raid on Iran's nuclear facilities would deliver a painful shock to the global economy, revive flagging Islamist militancy and possibly drag the United States into a regional war whether it backed its ally's attack or not....

Internet 'meltdown' warning as experts predict surge of people logging on during the Olympics

Source country dailymail Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:40:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] meltdown[2];

In a document called Preparing your business for the Games, it warns companies they could lose their internet connection and mobile phone coverage between July 27 and August 12....

Japan tsunami deals a lasting blow to farms

Source country irishsun Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:21:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear[1]; nuclear power[1]; nuclear power plant[1];

MINAMISOMA, Japan - For nearly 40 years, farmer Eiichi Fukuda has put his faith in the land, trusting the annual yield of the fertile brown soil to help feed his family and the rest of his nation. ......

Articles published more than 2 hours ago

Is David Cameron more yellow than blue?

Source country telegraph Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] Nuclear[1]; nuclear energy[1]; nuclear[1]; cross-section[1];

Entities: Stephen Hester[4]; Tony Blair[1]; David Cameron[12]; Ed Miliband[1]; George Osborne[1]; Keith Morris[1]; Richard Parry[1]; Margaret Thatcher[1]; Vincent Cable[1]; Fred Goodwin[3]; Autumn Statement[1]; Hugh Osmond[1]; Punch Taverns[1]; Martin Sorrell[1];

Other categories: Banking - Financial Services; DG Taxation & Customs Union; FRA-EU; Budget; Energy; Taxation;

There is growing anxiety among the rank and file of the Conservative Party that David Cameron is not delivering the agenday his party's faithful want....

National › Nuclear security summit aims to restore confidence in industry

Source country japantoday Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:07:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear material[1]; Nuclear[2]; radiation[1]; nuclear energy[2]; nuclear[12]; nuclear power[2]; nuclear reactors[1]; radioactive[1]; nuclear power plant[1];

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Nuclear Security Summit[1];

Other categories: Environment (general); Manmade Disasters; Terrorist Attack;

World leaders will gather in South Korea in March for a summit that will seek to restore confidence in the nuclear industry after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. The Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul will be the second since U.S. President Barack Obama inaugurated the forum in Washington in 2010…...

Articles published more than 3 hours ago

Al-Assad's ragtag army massacres 330 civilians

Source country independent-ie Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:57:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear[2]; nuclear reaction[2];

Other categories: Economic Crisis - Internal Market;

Bashar al-Assad's army is close to a collapse that could plunge the Middle East into a "nuclear reaction", its most senior defector has said....

Low-emission technology 'needs support'

Source country smh Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:36:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear energy[1]; nuclear[5];

Entities: Tony Wood[1];

Other categories: Environment (general); Climate Action - general; Alternative Energy;

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Tony Wood said: "If you ignore those two that's very risky because it's very difficult to believe that renewables can get there without prices going through the roof,"

Tony Wood said: "So much of our power comes from coal and if we can't keep producing electricity from coal our power (cost) goes up more than anybody else's," "Also we export so much of our coal and ... if the rest of the world doesn't want our coal then we're in trouble"

Tony Wood said: "If we don't start to address the issue of additional costs of those technologies that are important in the future they won't be there," "Then it will become very expensive"

A new report suggests Labor's controversial carbon tax won't be enough to drive a shift to a low-emissions future and says there are no easy options....

Articles published more than 4 hours ago

Bush's 'evil' trio holds sway over US decade later

Source country arabtimes Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:28:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear[7]; enrichment[4]; uranium[5];

Entities: George W Bush[1]; Madeleine Albright[1]; Mohammad Khatami[1]; Saddam Hussein[1]; Syracuse University[1]; Bill Clinton[1]; Kim Jong-un[2]; Barack Obama[1]; Kim Jong Il[5]; Mehrzad Boroujerdi[1]; Karim Sadjadpour[1]; Osama bin Laden[2]; John McCain[3];

Other categories: Conflict; Imports Exports; Terrorist Attack;

Quotes in this article

Mehrzad Boroujerdi said: "It's reached a stage where it's hard to see how this impasse could be broken,"

It was the first State of the Union address after the 9/11 attacks, and America was leading an invasion of Afghanistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden. Fittingly, this is where President George W. Bush began on Jan. 29, 2002: "As we gather tonight, ou......

Malaysia plant threatens China grip on rare earths

Source country channelnewsasia Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:20:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] radiation[1]; radioactive[2]; radioactive waste[1];

GEBENG, Malaysia: China's chokehold on the rare earths vital for everything from iPods to missiles is widely expected to end soon, thanks in large part to a contentious new plant in Malaysia....

Chavez: Iran Sanctions Hurt Joint Auto Venture

Source country ABCnews Sunday, February 5, 2012 6:53:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear energy[1]; nuclear[3];

Entities: Hugo Chavez[1];

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Hugo Chavez said: "We've had some problems due to the blockade on Iran, now that we have an Iranian-Venezuelan factory,"

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that international sanctions on Iran are impeding some of his country's business deals with Tehran. The U.S. and European governments have imposed sanctions seeking to pressure Iran over its nuclear program. Chavez said the sanctions have affected a jointly run auto assembly factory in Venezuela....

Articles published more than 6 hours ago

Empire strikes back

Source country dawn Sunday, February 5, 2012 5:40:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear[4]; nuclear power[1];

Entities: Osama bin Laden[2];

Other categories: Conflict; UN Bodies; Security Council; Banking - Financial Services;

IN the current US presidential election campaign, President Obama has been accused by his Republican rivals of being “weak” on foreign policy and presiding over America’s decline....

Mideast embarks on $180b power, water, energy projects

Source country timesofoman Sunday, February 5, 2012 5:08:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] Nuclear Power[1]; Nuclear Power Plant[1]; Nuclear[1]; nuclear[1];

Other categories: Environment (general);

New electricity, water, and energy projects valued at $180 billion are underway or in planning stages in Middle East, with Oman announcing major projects in last seven months worth $2.9 billion....

Japón: suministro alimentario en peligro

Source country ElPaisUY Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:55:00 AM CET | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear[1]; radioactiva[2];

Other categories: Natural Disasters; Public Health (general);

En otoño, mientras los arrozales de este valle maduraban convirtiéndose en alfombra dorada, llegaron inspectores para verificar la contaminación radioactiva. Onami se ubica 56 kms al noroeste de la destruida planta nuclear Fukushima Daiichi...

Nepra issues generation licence to KANUPP

Source country nation Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:55:00 AM CET [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] Nuclear Power[3]; Nuclear Power Plant[3]; Nuclear[3]; nuclear[1]; nuclear power[1]; uranium[1];

ISLAMABAD - Owing to increase in power generation amid worsening energy crisis, National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has issued amended generation license to Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP), which has increased its power generation capacity to 36MW....

Samsung condemns ‘anti-Iran’ ad

Source country nation Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:55:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear facility[1]; nuclear[5];

Other categories: Manmade Disasters;

SEOUL - Samsung Electronics on Saturday condemned an Israeli commercial featuring a Samsung tablet, expressing dismay at Iran’s threat to ban its products over the apparently anti-Tehran teaser. The South Korean electronics giant said it had not been involved in production of the TV spot, produced by Israeli cable TV cannel HOT....

Nuclear waste plan abandoned

Source country heraldscotland Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:37:00 AM CET [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] Nuclear[2]; Nuclear waste[1]; nuclear waste[1]; nuclear[3]; Radioactive[1]; radioactive[2]; radioactive waste[1];

A multi-million pound project that would have led to radioactive waste being buried along the North Ayrshire coastline has been abandoned in the face of protests by local residents and environmentalists....

MoD under fire for 'Atomic Beach' clean-up failure

Source country heraldscotland Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:37:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] radioactively[1]; Radiation[1]; radioactive[3];

Entities: Andrew Robathan[1];

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has again missed hundreds of radioactive particles contaminating the beach at Dalgety Bay on the Firth of Forth, prompting accusations that it cannot be trusted to carry on monitoring....

Khamenei: Iran will back ‘any nations, any groups’ fighting Israel

Source country WashingtonPost Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:15:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear[7]; enrichment[2]; uranium[1];

Entities: Ali Khamenei[2]; Mohammad Kazem[1]; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad[1];

Other categories: Telecommunications; EU-USA; Science;

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Ali Khamenei said: “From now onward, we will support and help any nations, any groups fighting against the Zionist regime across the world, and we are not afraid of declaring this,”

Ali Khamenei said: “We got involved in the anti-Israeli issues, which resulted in victory in the 33-day and 22-day wars,”

Mohammad Kazem said: “Compare the U.S. to a complaining neighbor, baselessly nagging about everything,”

TEHRAN — A fiery anti-Israel speech by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered shortly after a successful Iranian satellite launch, added to growing global tensions Friday, as Israel warned that it might mount a preemptive strike against the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities despite U.S....

Overdosed cancer patients assessed

Source country trinidadexpress Sunday, February 5, 2012 3:49:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] dosimetry[1]; radiation[10]; irradiation[1]; Radiation[1];

Entities: Brian Lara[1];

Almost three years after a radiation therapy overdose incident at the Brian Lara Cancer Treatment Centre (BLCTC), a medical team from the Response and Assistance Network (RANET) of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has conducted a week-long medical evaluation of about ten per cent of the 223 affected patients....

Now Available: OMZ (Uralmash-Izhora Group) (OMZZ) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

Source country pr-inside Sunday, February 5, 2012 3:48:00 AM CET [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] Nuclear Power[1]; Nuclear[1]; nuclear[1]; nuclear power[1]; nuclear power plant[1];

(PR-inside.com) OMZ (Uralmash-Izhora Group) is a Russia-based heavy engineering company. OMZ is engaged in production of nuclear power plant equipment in the Russia and in the Czech Republic, production of specialty steels in the Russia and in the Czech Republic, and manufacturing machinery equipment and mining equipment in the Russia....

Market Report, "Slovakia Power Report Q1 2012", published

Source country pr-inside Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:48:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear[7]; nuclear power[3]; nuclear power plant[1];

Other categories: Turkey-EU; Imports Exports; Social situation; European Enterprise News; Competition; Energy;

(PR-inside.com) BMI View: Thanks to subdued demand growth, Slovakia will have greatly reduced its power import requirement in 2011. The expansion of nuclear capacity from around 2013/14 should diminish further reliance on imported gas as a fuel for power generation, and Slovakia to scale back coal and oil use....

Recently released market study: Cambodia Power Report Q1 2012

Source country pr-inside Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:48:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] Nuclear Power[1]; Nuclear[1]; nuclear energy[1]; nuclear[1];

Other categories: Alternative Energy;

(PR-inside.com) BMI View: The major players in Asian power supply are clamouring to invest in Cambodia, with the result being that huge expansion of capacity can be expected from around 2015 onwards, as hydro-, gasand coal-based schemes are brought into play....

South Korea Power Report Q1 2012: New research report available at Fast Market Research

Source country pr-inside Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:48:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Nuclear] nuclear energy[1]; nuclear[6]; nuclear power[1];

Other categories: Natural Disasters;

(PR-inside.com) BMI View: Japan's nuclear woes following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami appear to have done little to derail South Korea's plans to build a number of new reactors and to increase its dependence on nuclear energy. Renewables are another key part of the country's future energy policy,.......

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