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As policymakers grapple with the twin challenges of climate change and a post-COVID economic recovery, the benefits of nuclear power are clearer than ever, but the industry still has some way to go in addressing perceptions of its alleged drawbacks with cost, safety and radioactive waste. This was the overriding message of the three panellists in a webinar held last week by Utilities Middle East in partnership with Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.

Date: Friday, 01 January 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-barrier-to-nuclear-is-perception,-says-panel


China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) says China and Slovakia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation along "the entire nuclear fuel cycle industry chain" between Slovak NPP research institute VUJE, Slovakia's economy ministry, CNNC and the China Atomic Energy Authority.

Date: Monday, 30 November 2015
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-woos-eastern-europe-4739991

As Ian Hore-Lacy and I have learnt from each other for over 30 years, some important points of agreement have emerged. For example, I heartily endorse the opening of the Charter of Ethics of his employer since 2001. It declares the World Nuclear Association’s “determination to promote, as a matter of ethical principle and urgent public need, an ongoing debate on energy resources that focuses citizens and governments alike on the real choices facing humankind and on the severe dangers—for the prospects of global development and for the biosphere—if decision-making on this fundamental policy is shaped by ideology and myth rather than by science and facts.” In that spirit, I wrote the NEI article ‘Mighty Mice’ (Dec. 2005, p44). Perhaps this response to Mr Hore-Lacy’s criticisms of it may usefully clarify key issues and help to cool overheated rhetoric.

Date: Thursday, 29 April 2010
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsresponse-to-hore-lacy

Areva CEO Anne Lauvergeon and Ssang-Soo Kim, CEO of the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), have signed an agreement for the Korean group to join the Imouraren mine in Niger.

Date: Friday, 05 February 2010
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskepco-takes-a-10-stake-in-imouraren

The United States Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office (DOE-ID), anticipates conducting a limited competition for Advisory and Assistance services in support of the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE).

Date: Thursday, 05 November 2009
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-advisory-services-advance-notice-usa-deadline-18-november-2009

On 28 July 2009, news stories stated that US Enrichment Corporation (Usec) had delayed its application for a US Department of Energy loan guarantee for its American Centrifuge Plant uranium enrichment project.

Date: Tuesday, 03 November 2009
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdoe-loan-chicken-or-egg