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Sat Jul 4

• Hopes for nuclear breakthrough on Obama Moscow trip | Politics | Reuters: Hopes are rising on both sides that President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow next week will produce a breakthrough in talks on cutting U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons and on helping Washington in Afghanistan. Officially, neither side has made an announcement but diplomats believe Obama will agree with President Dmitry Medvedev on the outline of a deal to reduce the stocks of deployed nuclear warheads to below 1,700 on each side. "We are confident that we will secure an agreement committing both sides to cutting warheads to fewer than 1,700," one person close to the talks said.
• The Chosun Ilbo (English Edition): Daily News from Korea - Nuclear Reprocessing Should Be an Economic Question: U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher in a written response to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the EU, India and Japan reprocess nuclear fuel within their own territories at present, but she did not think the Obama administration must apply those cases of authorized reprocessing to other countries, including South Korea. She added there was no need for a revision in the Atomic Energy Agreement signed between South Korea and the United States. The comments effectively slap down calls within South Korea to start reprocessing its own spent nuclear fuel. The U.S. government seems wary of South Korea reprocessing spent nuclear fuel from the standpoint of "peaceful " use of nuclear energy, suspecting that the country over the long-term wants to make its own nuclear weapons. South Korea tried to develop nuclear weapons in the 1970s, but scrapped the plan. Now the issue has re-emerged after North Korea's second nuclear test.
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• Electric Light: The parliament 9;s committee for constitutional matters and legislation has concluded that there are no legal obstacles to the adoption of a law banning the building of nuclear power stations in Montenegro. The committee has backed the amendments to the law on the budget, a package of laws on agriculture and the draft law on national parks. Milutin Tomasevic has the report: [Reporter Tomasevic] If at its next session the parliament votes the same as the committee for constitutional matters and legislation, no nuclear plants will be built in Montenegro, and this will be Montenegro 9;s official position in relation to its environment. Deputy of New Serb Democracy Emilo Labudovic defended an opposing view during the debate, declaring himself against such a ban. He maintains that nuclear energy is clean and safe.
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• Energy review backs no nuclear scotland | SNP - Scottish National Party: Scotland?s energy future should be based on non-nuclear sources. The SNP today welcomed a report from the Parliament?s Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee which supported the Scottish Government?s plans for Scotland to build a clean, green and renewable energy future as SNP MSP Rob Gibson called for the UK Government to release £150 million of potential investment in Scotland?s energy future. In their report the Committee state that
• Department of Energy - Obama Administration Launches New Energy Efficiency Efforts: competitivenes s WASHINGTON - Building on the action by the U.S. House of Representative s in passing historic legislation that will pave the way for the transition to a clean energy economy, President Barack Obama and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced aggressive actions to promote energy efficiency and save American consumers billions of dollars per year. Today's announcement underscores how the clean energy revolution not only makes environmental sense, but it also makes economic sense - creating jobs and saving money. "One of the fastest, easiest, and cheapest ways to make our economy stronger and cleaner is to make our economy more energy efficient,&quo t; said President Obama. "That 9;s why we made energy efficiency investments a focal point of the Recovery Act. And that's why today's announcements are so important. By bringing more energy efficient technologies to American homes and businesses, we won't just significantly reduce our energy demand

Fri Jul 3

• Nuclear industry accused of hijacking clean energy forum | Business | The Guardian: The nuclear power industry has been accused of trying to muscle in on plans to establish a global body to represent the renewable energy industry at a key meeting in Egypt tomorrow. France ? a major user and exporter of nuclear technologies ? is accused by critics of trying to win the top job inside the renewable organisation so it can move the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) towards being a promoter of "low-carb on" technologies ? including atomic power. The talks in Sharm el-Sheikh are already threatening to become a major standoff between Germany and the United Arab Emirates over which country should win the right to have the headquarters of Irena based in its country.
• Merkel Retreats on Nuclear Power, Backs Electric Cars - Bloomberg.com: Chancellor Angela Merkel?s party ruled out for the first time building nuclear-power plants in Germany and backed plans to develop electric-car technology, aiming to broaden its appeal for Sept. 27 national elections. While Merkel?s Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, agreed to stick to a policy of extending the lifespan of existing atomic plants, their joint campaign program presented in Berlin today describes nuclear power as merely a ?bridge? to greater use of renewable energy. Annotated link http://www.dii go.com/bookmar k/http%3A%2F%2 Fwww.bloomberg .com%2Fapps%2F news%3Fpid%3D2 0601100%26sid% 3DaJFJgF7k2uJA

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