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Russia, Argentina To Establish Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez will ink a deal to establish a comprehensive strategic partnership in addition to signing 20 cooperation agreements during a meeting at the Kremlin on Thursday, Russia’s TASS news agency reports. Russia and Argentina will sign a document which is geared to raise the level of bilateral relations, Russian president’s … Continue reading
China To Approve Six To Eight Nuclear Reactors This Year
China is set to approve six to eight nuclear reactors this year, the China Nuclear Industry Association (CNIA) said in an annual report on Wednesday, as it races to reach an ambitious capacity target by 2020. Another eight reactors will go into commercial operation this year, said Zhang Huazhu, the association’s general secretary. This would be the … Continue reading
As Russia Weakens, Turkey Grows Assertive
By Stratfor Global Intelligence Turkey’s relationship with Russia is changing significantly. A domestic economic crisis, low energy prices and European energy diversification efforts have weakened Russia. Moscow is also heavily involved in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine — right across the Black Sea from Turkey. Russia’s weakened position and the trouble in Ukraine have made Turkey’s … Continue reading
China, Kazakhstan Sign 33 Deals Worth $23 Billion
China and Kazakhstan have signed 33 deals of cooperation worth $23.6 billion on Friday during the Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Masimov’s visit to China, Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency reports. The agreements signed by Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang cover cooperation on steel, non-ferrous metals, sheet glass, oil refining, hydropower, and automobile … Continue reading
Saudi Arabia, South Korea Sign Nuclear Cooperation Pact To Build Reactors
The leaders of Saudi Arabia and South Korea have agreed to cooperate to build more than two small and medium-size nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia in a deal worth as much as $2 billion, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday. South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday and met with King Salman … Continue reading
Fukushima Nuclear Plant: 70-Fold Radiation Spike
“Another radioactive water leak in the sea has been detected at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the facility’s operator TEPCO announced. Contamination levels in the gutter reportedly spiked up 70 times over regular readings” RT reported today. The levels of contamination were between 50 and 70 times higher than Fukushima’s already elevated radioactive status, and … Continue reading
Four Ways The West Got The Iran Nuclear Issue Wrong – OpEd
By Gareth Porter For more than three decades, the United States and its European allies have committed one fundamental error after another in the process of creating a commonly held narrative that Iran was secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons programme. The story of how suspicions of the Iranian programme hardened into convictions is a cautionary … Continue reading
The Era Of Nuclear Commerce: Nuclear In The Global Energy Supply Mix
By Anis Bajrektarevic, Petra Posega GeopoliticalMonitor Today, nuclear energy is 4th place in the total primary energy supply mixture, following the still-dominating coal, oil, and natural gas holding a staggering 80% of the world primary energy supply. To make these statistics more instructive, we can add that the primary energy supply in 2013 reached 13,217 … Continue reading
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