Abu Dhabi has a bet each way: nuclear and renewables
Nuclear, Thermonuclear Sins, and Infrastructure: A Day at the World Future Energy Summit Nuclear, Greentech Media Michael Kanellos 18 Jan 2010 A Day at the World Future Energy SummitIt’s like Spring Break for Big Wigs -“………….The United Arab Emirates likes nuclear. “Hydrocarbons will play a role. Renewables will play a critical role and nuclear energy for some time until renewable energy is able to get to the point where it is economical and can scale will play a role,” said Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of Masdar, the sprawling alternative energy/education/urban planning project launched by Abu Dhabi said during a presentation yesterday evening. Continue reading
Middle East countries join IRENA, plan to lead in renewables
the energy of the future is not the energy of the past: the sun and wind, hydro and geothermal sources know no geographical boundaries and are within reach of us all.
Middle East Plan to be Leader in Renewable Energy The Energy Collective 20 Jan 2010 Away from international headlines, Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading oil producer and exporter, took a significant step towards cleaner and greenery energy this week with the announcement that it would join IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency. Continue reading
New sanctions warning to Iran, in nuclear talks
Germany warns Iran it faces new sanctions BERLIN (Reuters) 19 Jan 2010 – Iran faces further sanctions unless it changes stance in talks over its nuclear program, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday, even if there is no United Nations agreement to act against Tehran……… Continue reading
Iran threatening revenge over death of nuclear scientist
Iran vows to avenge assassination of nuclear scientist TEHRAN TIMES January 19, 2010 TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar here on Monday vowed that Tehran would retaliate against the last week terrorist attack on an Iranian nuclear physicist………..President Ahmadinejad earlier said that the Zionist regime of Israel was responsible for the Tuesday terrorist attack on Ali Mohammadi.
tehran times : Iran vows to avenge assassination of nuclear scientist
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UAE declares support for Irena’s renewable energy measures Gulf News 18 Jan 2010 The message the UAE wants to convey, being a major oil producer and host of Irena, is that “we can’t rely on the energy of the past to make prosperity in the future”, said Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Continue reading
When is it OK to get workers to drink uranium?
a recommendation that new and clear procedures stipulating when and how it is permissible to carry out medical experiments on workers be established. You read that right. The scientists at Dimona need to be told when and how it’s ok to make workers drink uranium.
More Atomic Tales: Uranium with juice. Nuclear Reaction – 16 Jan 2010
Here’s a story . Last August, Haaretz revealed that workers at the [Israel’s] Dimona nuclear reactor had been required to participate in an experiment in which they drank a certain quantity of uranium mixed with juice¦ Continue reading
Sheikha Fatima speaks for women, on renewable energy
“If we do not take care to identify and to use alternative, renewable sources of energy, then the future for our long term development will be bleak indeed.”
Women are committed to development of renewable energy WAM Emirates News Agency :Sheikha Fatima symposium on ”Women and Renewable Energy: Future Alternatives ” in Abu Dhabi 16 Jan 2010
The event was hosted by the GWU under the patronage of Sheikha Fatima.
”The development of renewable energy is something that concerns us all. I believe that it is an issue to which all women, concerned about the future of their children, should be firmly committed”, Sheikha Fatima added. Continue reading
Nuclear workers had to drink uranium mixture
..the special committee decided only to reprimand verbally the two researchers who initiated the study…
Inside Intel / Uranium, down the hatch Haaretz.com By Yossi Melman 14 Jan 2010 Last August, Haaretz revealed that workers at the Dimona nuclear reactor had been required to participate in an experiment in which they drank a certain quantity of uranium mixed with juice. Continue reading
Killing of Iranian nuclear scientist
Allegations fly over Iranian scientist’s assassinationTehran claims west was behind killing of nuclear physicist who was a supporter of Iranian opposition Julian BorgerSaeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, 12 January 2010 and “………He was a particle physicist and a supporter of the Iranian opposition movement, raising the possibility he had become the latest victim in a covert war over Iran‘s nuclear aspirations. It is a war in which scientists find themselves potential soft targets. Continue reading
Big five to meet over Iran’s uranium enrichment
Six to meet this week on Iran sanctions: Clinton Google News By Lachlan Carmichael (AFP) – 12 Jan 2010 TRAVIS AIR BASE, California — The United States, Russia, China, Britain France and Germany will meet late this week to discuss sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday. Continue reading
Iraq demanding explanation on Iran’s nuclear plant
Iraq wants ‘explanations’ on Iran’s planned nuclear plant near border Daily Times (Pakistan) 12 Jan 2010 BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government on Monday called for “explanations” from the UN nuclear watchdog on a reported plan for Iran to build a nuclear reactor near the border between the two countries. Continue reading
Iraq demanding nuclear compensation from Israel
Iraq to demand Israel compensation over 1981 nuclear reactor strike – Haaretz – Israel News06/01/2010 Iraq to demand Israel compensation over 1981 nuclear reactor strikeBy Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent The Iraqi government will demand compensation from Israel for the 1981 bombing of the nuclear reactor at Osirak, according to an Iraqi newspaper.
A member of the Iraqi parliament, Mohammed Naji Mohammed, was quoted as saying in newspaper Al-Sabah that the Iraqi prime minister and Foreign Ministry have approached the United Nations with a demand for compensation….Iraq to demand Israel compensation over 1981 nuclear reactor strike – Haaretz – Israel News
How much of Iran’s nuclear program is hidden in tunnels?
Iran hides nuclear secrets in web of tunnels The Australian January 07, 2010 ?WASHINGTON: Iran has hidden a large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country, shielding its infrastructure from military attack in warrens of dense rock while obscuring the scale of its nuclear effort, according to reports yesterday. Continue reading
No answer received to Iran’s proposal for swapping uranium
‘Iran has received no response to its nuclear proposal so far’ Tehran Times Political Desk anuary 7, 2010 TEHRAN – So far Iran has not received any response to its proposal for swapping its low-enriched uranium with 20 percent nuclear fuel in Japan, Brazil, Turkey, or on the Iranian island of Kish, MP Hossein Ebrahimi said on Wednesday. Continue reading
Story on Iran’s ‘nuclear trigger’ – a forgery
US. intelligence judges the “nuclear trigger” document to be a forgery,
IRAN: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story truthout 05 January 2010 by: Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service Washington – New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a “nuclear trigger” mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons programme. Continue reading
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