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27 August, 2007 - 18:09 — juerg

Obama renews threats against Iran

US President Barack Obama says the door is still open for Iran to accept the IAEA-backed proposal on a nuclear fuel deal but warned of "consequences" if Tehran does not change its mind.

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Birth control: the most effective way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Times (UK): Investing in birth control to reduce population growth could be more effective in cutting greenhouse gas emissions than building wind turbines or nuclear power stations, according to a United Nations report. Taking action to prevent one billion births by 2050 would save as much carbon dioxide as constructing 2 million giant wind turbines. The UN Population Fund report predicts that the global population could reach 10.5 billion by 2050, up from 6.8 billion today, unless urgent action ...
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Searching For A Miracle: Net Energy Limits And The Fate Of Industrial Society

Countercurrents: This report is intended as a non-technical examination of a basic question: Can any combination of known energy sources successfully supply society's energy needs at least up to the year 2100? In the end, we are left with the disturbing conclusion that all known energy sources are subject to strict limits of one kind or another. Conventional energy sources such as oil, gas, coal, and nuclear are either at or nearing the limits of their ability to grow in annual supply, and will dwindle as ...
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US should follow France, boost nuclear power: senator

Agence France-Presse: The United States should consider following France's lead and ramping up use of nuclear power in an effort to contain global warming, a senior US senator helping craft climate change legislation said Tuesday. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is working with Democrat John Kerry on the bill, highlighted how France now derives 80 percent of its energy from nuclear power and is presently constructing a next-generation reactor, said to be the most advanced in the ...
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Obama, Hu vow cooperation but produce few deals

Associated Press: President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global troubles yet emerged from their first full-blown summit Tuesday with scant progress beyond goodwill. After two hours of talks and a separate meeting over dinner the night before, the presidents spoke of moving beyond the divisiveness over human rights, trade and military tensions that have bedeviled relations in past ...
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Activists set up home on the Happy Ranger

A few days ago the cargo ship The Happy Ranger left France carrying steam generators intended for the nuclear European Pressurised Reactor under construction in Olkiluoto, Finland. As the ship made its way from France to Finland, activists from the Arctic Sunrise boarded the cargo ship and are currently occupying the cranes on the deck of the cargo ship.
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United Kingdom: Will carbon dioxide give Miliband the slip?

Independent (UK): For once, Miliband the younger grabbed the headlines. Brother and cabinet colleague David had for weeks dominated the news pages over speculation that he would snaffl e the position of the European Union's first foreign secretary. But last week it was the turn of Ed Miliband, the Climate Change Secretary, who took centre stage after drafting one of the most comprehensive energy statements by this or any modern government. The son of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament co-founder and ...
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Nuclear waste plan put to public

People in west Cumbria are given the chance to find out more about government plans to store nuclear waste underground.
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Reform of carbon trading 'could pay for UK nuclear stations'

EDF the French utility giant has insisted that reform of the carbon trading system would be a cheap way for consumers to help pay for a new generation of UK nuclear power stations.
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Nuclear slots win approval

The government has approved ten sites in England and Wales for new nuclear power stations.
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United Kingdom: Splitting the cost

Economist: PLANNING is not the only obstacle to a rebirth of nuclear power in Britain. The technology's torturous economics are, if anything, even trickier. The trouble is that, whereas the fuel is cheap, nuclear-power plants themselves are very expensive to build and the pay-off from that investment is slow. It is hard to know the true cost of a modern nuclear plant. Most Western reactors that are still running were built years ago (Britain's newest, Sizewell B, is 14 years old). Two new ...
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United Kingdom: The nuclear option

Economist: BRITAIN, and especially England, is occasionally compared to North Korea (only half-jokingly) as one of the most heavily centralised states in the world. Whitehall bureaucrats micromanage schools and hospitals; local government is dependent on the Treasury for most of its funding. But one bastion of local power has for years stood apart from the trend towards central control: planning, the process by which building projects are granted or denied permission to proceed. Objections from ...
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Letters: The cost of nuclear doesn't add up

Government plans to fast-track major projects pose a real threat to their action plan on global warming (UK's nuclear future is mapped out as race to tackle climate change hots up, 10 November).
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Britain unveils plans for new nuclear power stations

Washington Post: The British government unveiled plans Monday to launch one of the world's most ambitious expansions of nuclear-power capacity, calling for the construction of 10 plants to help meet surging energy demands in the era of global warming. After years of resistance to construction of nuclear-power plants, the British plan underscored how nations around the world are scrambling to find ways to generate more energy while slashing the emissions that cause climate change. To do that, nations ...
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Energy policy: Atomic dreams

"No government has sought to influence me in any way whatever," declared Sir Frank Layfield before giving the go ahead for the last nuclear power station to be built in Britain.
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Nuclear power plan is latest tug on steering wheel in a massive Labour Uturn

Ed Miliband's announcement of a huge expansion in nuclear power is the latest tug on the steering wheel in a massive Uturn since Labour came to office on an antinuclear platform says Geoffrey Lean.
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Ten new nuclear power stations given goahead

A total of 10 new nuclear power stations will be built to supply up to 25 per cent of the country's energy needs.
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Howard to fight nuclear decision

Kent MP Michael Howard vows to fight the government's decision to reject Dungeness as a site for one of 10 new nuclear power stations.
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Britain unveils nuclear energy expansion plans

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain set out plans Monday to speed up the planning process for big wind farms and new nuclear power plants and named 10 sites where reactors could be built.
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United Kingdom: Ten nuclear stations to be built in bid to prevent energy shortage

Times (UK): Ten nuclear power stations are to be built in Britain at a cost of up to £50 billion as the Government tries to prevent the threat of regular power cuts by the middle of the coming decade. The nuclear industry welcomed the plans, but critics said that ministers had acted too late to avoid an energy crunch caused by the closure of ageing coal-fired stations. Although the sites were known to be in line for development, the announcement signals the Government's increasing ambition ...
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Spain's windfarms set new national record for electricity generation

Guardian: Wind energy provided more than half of Spain's total electricity needs for several hours over the weekend as the country set a new national record for wind-generated power. With high winds gusting across much of the country, Spain's huge network of windfarms jointly poured the equivalent of 11 nuclear power stations' worth of electricity into the national grid. At one stage on Sunday morning, the country's wind farms were able to cover 53% of total electricity demand – a new ...
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United Kingdom: The government announces new nuclear sites, plans shake-up

Agence France-Presse: The government named 10 sites where new nuclear power stations could be built Monday, while unveiling changes to planning rules aimed at speeding up approval for energy projects. Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said the move would help secure a new generation of low carbon energy for British homes in coming decades, as part of the fight against climate change. The 10 nuclear sites -- many of which are near existing nuclear facilities -- include three in Cumbria near the ...
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United Kingdom: Go-ahead for 10 nuclear stations

BBC: The government has approved 10 sites in England and Wales for new nuclear power stations, most of them in locations where there are already plants. It has rejected only one proposed site - in Dungeness, Kent - as being unsuitable on environmental grounds. A new planning commission will make decisions on the proposals "within a year" of receiving them, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband told MPs. Nuclear was a "proven and reliable" energy source, he said. Proposed ...
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Miliband paves way for most ambitious fleet of new nuclear reactors in Europe

Guardian: A new fleet of nuclear power stations was today backed by the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, as he outlined the UK government's plans to fast-track major energy infrastructure projects, also including "clean coal" power stations and windfarms. Six draft "national policy statements" would secure the UK's energy supply as ageing plants close, reduce carbon emissions in generating power and create jobs, he said. He also called for an overhaul of the planning system to encourage new ...
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Reaction to energy proposals

(Reuters) - The government on Monday unveiled its plans for a new energy infrastructure, including 10 possible new nuclear plants and funding for four trials of carbon capture and storage technology.
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Green groups attack planning reforms to fast track plants

The Government is due today (November 9) to publish six draft national policy statements designed to fast-track the building of 'clean' coal, renewable energy and nuclear power stations.
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Nuclear power station sites named

A huge expansion of nuclear power has been signalled by the Government as it named 10 sites where new power stations could be built.
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Britain unveils nuclear energy expansion plans

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain set out plans Monday to speed up the planning process for big wind farms and new nuclear power plants and named 10 sites where reactors could be built.
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Yes we need renewable energy but just wait for your bills to go nuclear

You wait 12 years for an energy policy and six come along at once. In an apparent rush of decisiveness Ed Miliband Climate and Energy Secretary confirmed 10 sites for new nuclear reactors and a further push to develop clean coal technology.
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Ten nuclear stations to be built in bid to prevent energy shortage

Ten nuclear power stations are to be built in Britain at a cost of up to £50 billion as the Government tries to prevent the threat of regular power cuts by the middle of the coming decade.
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Ed Miliband to deliver nuclear site assessment reports


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Nuclear fast-track plan awaited

Plans for fast-tracking a new generation of nuclear power stations are to be announced by the government.
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Britain's nuclear strategy threatens destruction of Kalahari

Guardian: The hidden cost of Britain's new generation of nuclear power could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in Namibia and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year, the Observer has discovered.= The desert, with its towering sand dunes and spectacular lunar-like landscapes, is at the centre of an international uranium rush led by Rössing Uranium, a subsidiary of the British mining giant Rio Tinto, and the French state-owned company, Areva, which part-manages the ...
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Plans to fast-track new nuclear power stations

Plans to fast-track a new generation of nuclear power stations are set to be unveiled by the Government, it was reported today.
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Plans to fast-track nuclear plants to be unveiled

Plans to fast-track a new generation of nuclear power stations are set to be unveiled tomorrow by the Government.
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Kenya plans nuclear plant in next five years: PM

Agence France-Presse: Kenya hopes to build its first nuclear power plant in the next five years with help from France, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Saturday. "We want to establish a nuclear plant. We want to start with a plant of the average of between 1,000 and 2,000 Megawatts (output) and we are looking at five years from now," Odinga said in an interview with AFP. Odinga said nuclear power was one option Kenya was considering as it looked for ways to reduce its greenhouse gas ...
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United Kingdom: Govt in push for new nuclear plants

Agence France-Presse: The country could face a serious energy crisis unless plans to build new nuclear power stations are implemented, the energy secretary revealed in an interview Saturday. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband told The Daily Telegraph that new planning guidelines due out on Monday would reduce the time it would take to get a new generation of nuclear power plants into operation. The new planning proposals are designed to stop nuclear proposals getting bogged down for ...
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US National Security Adviser James L. Jones on Afghanistan: 'We Will Not Solve the Problem with Troops Alone'

US National Security Adviser James L. Jones talks to SPIEGEL about his skepticism regarding calls for more US troops to be sent to Afghanistan, the chances of Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands and President Barack Obama's leadership style.
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IAEA: We found 'nothing to worry about' at secret Iran nuke site

Mohammed ElBaradei also told the New York Times that he was examining possible compromises to unblock a draft nuclear cooperation deal between Iran and three major powers that has floundered over Iranian objections.

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Low-carbon plans to cause gas glut

Guardian: Improvements in energy efficiency and wider deployment of low-carbon technologies could reduce global gas consumption by five per cent by 2015 and 17 per cent by 2030 compared to a business-as-usual scenario, according to new projections from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The Financial Times reported yesterday that a draft version of the IEA's World Energy Outlook, the flagship annual report due for release next week, shows that the planned rollout of renewable and nuclear ...
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