An American seized in Yemen in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida members had been a laborer at six U.S. nuclear power plants, and authorities are investigating whether he had access to sensitive information or materials that would be useful to terrorists.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan said Friday that investigations are under way into which areas Mobley entered.
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The state power companies of South Korea and Turkey signed a preliminary deal here Wednesday aimed at building a nuclear power plant in northern Turkey.
The protocol was inked by officials from EUAS of Turkey and Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO), which in December won a contract to build four nuclear power plants in the United Arab Emirates as part of an international consortium.
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Israel and Syria are separately eyeing plans to develop nuclear power to meet the energy needs of the volatile Middle East, ministers told a conference hosted by France on Tuesday to promote reactors.
“Nuclear energy can be an area of regional cooperation with the objective of promoting peace,” Uzi Landau told the Paris conference.
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Israel unveiled plans Tuesday to work with its Arab neighbours to build a nuclear power plant in a project aimed at meeting the regions energy needs and promoting peace.
“Nuclear energy can be an area of regional cooperation with the objective of promoting peace,” Landau told a Paris conference on the civilian use of nuclear power.
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A senior Syrian official says his country would like to pursue nuclear power to meet growing energy needs.
He says Syria is looking at “alternative energy sources, including nuclear energy” to meet growing demand for energy in his country, noting its growing population.
Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad says “the peaceful application of nuclear energy should not be monopolized by the few that own this technology but should be available to all.
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Israel will officially announce on Tuesday that it is seeking French help to construct a nuclear power plant, the infrastructure ministry spokesman said on Monday.
“He mentioned this three months ago to French Ecology Minister (Jean-Louis) Borloo, who showed great interest and said he would discuss it with President (Nicolas) Sarkozy,” Lulu said in a statement.
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Poor countries need nuclear power, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday, urging rich lenders to help pay for a global nuclear expansion in the interests of fighting climate change and feeding the growing world hunger for energy.
His tantalizing vision of nuclear reactors dotting the horizon won over international energy officials from India to Brussels and French executives eager to market their expertise abroad, all present at a Paris conference Monday.
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Israel will this week unveil plans to produce nuclear-generated electricity, officials said on Monday, a move that could draw fresh international attention toward its assumed atomic arsenal.
Landau said Israel, which has a population of 7.5 million and generates electricity mostly using imported coal and local and imported natural gas, is capable of building a nuclear reactor.
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France urged international financial bodies to finance a new era of global nuclear power on Monday and pitched its own reactor technology as the model to follow.
He called on world and regional financial bodies to finance new nuclear projects in developing countries, and announced that France would set up an international institute to promote atomic technology.
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Power provider Entergy Corp.’s proposal to spin off its wholesale nuclear power plants into a separate company has run into snags long past the time it had hoped to close the deal.
Entergy says it intends to go ahead with the plan, announced in 2007, to separate its regulated utilities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas from six nuclear generating units that sell power on wholesale markets where prices are set by supply and demand - not by public regulators.
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