Ex-President: Georgia should immediately start negotiations with Armenia over ensuring Metsamor NPP's safety
Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze urged the Georgian authorities to immediately start negotiations with the Armenian authorities over the safety of the Metsamor nuclear power plant. Reports about the Armenian nuclear power plant’s state "cause severe anxiety", Shevardnadze said in an interview
After Japan, Will China Scale Back Its Nuclear Ambitions?
Even for a country known for completing massive infrastructure projects with frightening speed, China's nuclear-power-plant building spree boggles the mind.
Russia will profit from the crises in Mideast, Japan
Only a year ago, Russia's dominance as a global energy supplier was threatened by low gas prices and a reputation as an unreliable trade partner. But with the world now shaken by Japan's natural disasters and uprisings across the Middle East, the country is back at the heart of the market - and cashing in
BP's deal with Russia's Rosneft 'could still go ahead'
The chairman of Russian energy giant Rosneft has said he wants to push ahead with its alliance with BP.
Russia to Test Nuclear Plants for Ability to Survive Quakes
Russia, responding to the Japanese nuclear crisis, will perform a “stress test” on all its reactors to judge their ability to withstand earthquakes more powerful than the original design anticipated, the Russian state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom said
Ukraine's economic news Ukraine, Russia revive work to settle conflict around Ukrtatnafta
The Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental working group on March 24, 2011 held the first stage of a meeting in Kyiv to draw up a plan of joint action to settle the conflict over public JSC Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk oil refinery, Poltava region), read a press release of the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry of Ukraine.
Japan nuclear crisis a wake-up call for China
Following the nuclear power plant crisis in Japan, China has ordered safety inspections of its existing nuclear plants and suspension of new plant approvals.
China Seeks Uranium Ore in Kazakhstan
Future prospects for cooperation between China and Kazakhstan were high on the agenda during President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to Beijing on February 21. This overshadowed all other complicated and long-drawn out issues like the water sharing on Ili and Irtysh Rivers, on which a preliminary agreement was reached and the talks on Transborder Rivers, as it was disclosed to journalists, will be finalized during the trip by the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, to Kazakhstan scheduled for June.
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