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...that led to the resignation of the Green party from government, Finland approved the utility's application because of worries about climate change and uncertainties about securing future energy supplies. The party was held in a glass tent on the spot where the core of the new pressurized water reactor is to be installed, and none of the partygoers was happier than Anne Lauvergeon, a former French civil servant who is chief executive of Areva, the French company that won the contract to build the $3.6 billion plant. Hailing a "nuclear renaissance," she said the laying of the foundation stone...
...French attitudes towards the technology. France pushed through an aggressive nuclear energy program in the 1970s after the first oil shock. While the share of nuclear energy worldwide is just 16% of the total, it is five times higher in France, which has 59 of the world's 440 reactors on its soil. More are on the way: last year, the government approved the launch of a new generation of reactor, with the first one scheduled to be built-by Areva-in the Normandy town of Flamanville starting in 2007. Just how big could nukes become? Jean-Jacques Gautrot...
Other interns found a guard who appeared to be asleep, unlocked building doors and, in a number of cases, guided tours that provided easy access to control rooms and reactor pools that hold radioactive fuel...
...Clearly, Condi Rice knows this. That's why she says the U.S. will not even discuss providing light-water reactors until Pyongyang completely disarms and rejoins the NPT. Still, the deeper negotiators delve into the endless issues that must be resolved to disarm Pyongyang, the clearer the dangers and costs of doing so are likely to become. As long as that's the case, the reactor picture on my wall stays...
...negotiate a compromise that would allow Iran to maintain a nuclear energy program but not the capacity to produce fuel that could also be used for nuclear weapons. Iran has continued to insist that it has an "inalienable right" under the NPT to enrich its own uranium for reactor fuel - enrichment capability is of paramount concern to the West, because it would give Iran the technical means to create weapons-grade nuclear material. That stance hardened with the election of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who last week insisted that Iran would never give up the "right" to enrich uranium...