Nations sign nuclear reactor pact

NF Reporter · 11-21-2006, 01:43 PM

AP - Nations representing half the world's population signed a long-awaited, $12.8 billion pact Tuesday for a nuclear fusion reactor that could revolutionize global energy use for future generations.

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waltky · 08-19-2007, 05:45 PM

Proliferation? What proliferation?

Asian countries speed up nuclear construction
Saturday 18th August, 2007 Chinese power companies have begun work on a new nuclear plant, the first in the country's north-east.

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China has four nuclear power plants in operation, all in the booming south and southeast. China's government says it plans to build 31 new nuclear plants by 2020 as it tries to curb heavy reliance on oil and coal.

Nuclear equipment suppliers are hoping China will sustain sales at a time when few other countries are installing new infrastructure. U.S-based Westinghouse Electric signed agreements in July to sell four nuclear power plants to China and hand over technology to make its newest reactor.

Meanwhile, with the recent nuclear deal between India and the U.S in mind, Pakistan has decided to accelerate its nuclear program. President Pervez Musharraf has decided that work on the Khushab site should be speeded up with five new nuclear reactors.

Asian countries speed up nuclear construction

waltky · 12-24-2007, 06:40 AM

Iran finally playin' ball?...

Iran calls for nuclear tenders
Monday 24th December, 2007 - Senior Iranian politicians have decided the country will call international tenders for the construction of new nuclear power plants.

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Iran's parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy has said an international tender will be announced for the creation of 19 nuclear power plants with a capacity of 1,000 MW each.

Iran's first nuclear power plant being built by Russia will flow electricity into the power grid by March 2009.

The US$1 billion Bushehr nuclear power project has been at the centre of an international dispute, with Western countries protesting against Russia's nuclear cooperation with the Islamic Republic.

Iran calls for nuclear tenders

waltky · 10-22-2008, 03:23 AM

Warning on proliferation...

Nuclear incident would make 9/11 'insignificant': nuke commission
Tue Oct 21, `08 – The world is on the brink of an avalanche in the spread of devastating weaponry, a new global non-proliferation group warned Tuesday, saying that a nuclear incident would dwarf the September 11 attacks.

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The Middle East, particularly Iran, is a potential tipping point, according to Gareth Evans, co-chair of the newly formed International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. Evans, a former Australia foreign minister, said the world had been "sleepwalking" on the issue of atomic weapons for a decade.

"The devastation that could be wreaked by one major nuclear weapons incident alone puts 9/11 and almost everything else (in) to the category of the insignificant," he said, referring to the attacks inflicted on the United States in 2001. Evans was speaking as the commission, which was first proposed by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after a visit to the Japanese city of Hiroshima in June, entered the second and final day of its inaugural meeting in Sydney.

The group, chaired by Evans and Japan's former top diplomat Yoriko Kawaguchi, is tasked with reinvigorating the global debate on the spread of nuclear weapons and disarmament. Evans told reporters there were between 13,000 and 16,000 nuclear warheads actively deployed around the world and that it was "really a bit of a miracle" that a nuclear catastrophe had not occurred during the Cold War or afterwards.

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