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...driving force is China. Beijing says it wants to lift nuclear-generated power from its current 11 gigawatts to 86 gigawatts by 2020--an increase equivalent to France's current total output. China is already adding 14 reactors to the 11 it operates, including three third-generation installations supplied by Areva and Westinghouse. And it won't stop there: Beijing has signed on for an additional 35 plants to be built over the next decade...
...crucial to establishing the firm as the leader in advanced nuclear tech. "You only see how it works once you've built it and proved it's what you'd said it would be," he said. "That's why winning the Finnish contract and building the world's first third-generation reactor is so important...
...focusing on its latest reprocessing technology, which produces less waste, Areva aims to capture one-third of the new reactor construction market by 2030. That will be increasingly difficult because competition is heating up. Siemens now looks set to form a partnership with Rosatom, the industry's second biggest firm. And China's push for nuclear plants means there will probably soon be competition from there...
...Afghanistan GAINS IN THE DRUG WAR Could Afghanistan's opium boom be over? According to a U.N. report, poppy cultivation has crashed over the past year, with prices down a third since last summer to their lowest level since the late 1990s. Farmers planted 22% fewer acres in 2009, but U.N. officials say Afghan poppies are now higher-yielding: overall production dipped only 10%, prompting the report to call the NATO campaign to eradicate opium crops a "failure." Afghanistan produces the raw opium for more than 90% of the world's heroin...
...United’s buyout was not a fluke. A 2000 Rutgers study showed that worker-owned companies experienced average employment and sales growth that was 2.3 to 2.4 percent higher than non-worker-owned firms. In other words, these companies grow to be on average a third larger than traditionally owned firms over the course of 10 years...