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Russia may launch nuclear cooperation with Venezuela: Putin
Novo-Ogaryovo, Russia (AFP) Sept 25, 2008 Russia may launch nuclear energy cooperation with Venezuela, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday during talks with the country's fiercely anti-US leader Hugo Chavez. "We are ready to consider a possibility of cooperation in using nuclear energy," Putin said. Putin also noted "development of our ties in all spheres," with "new possibilities in energy, high-tech, machine construction and chemicals." Russian and Venezuelan companies "have good perspectives not only in bilateral sense but also on third markets," Putin said. The Russian premier also thanked Chavez "for the warm welcome for our strategic aviation airplanes which had spent many days in Venezuela," pledging "realisation of all our accords on cooperation between our navies." "I am ready to discuss our cooperation in military and technical sphere," Putin said, explaining that "Latin America has become an important chain-link in creating a multipolar world, and we will pay more attention to this sector." In deployments not seen since the Cold War, Russia this month sent two long-range bombers to Venezuela for exercises and has dispatched a flotilla of warships from the Arctic base of Severomorsk to Venezuela, near US waters. Venezuela has signed 4.4 billion dollars' (three billion euros') worth of contracts to buy Russian arms since 2005, according to the Kremlin. "Today like never before all that you said on the multi-polar world becomes reality. Let us not lose time," Chavez agreed, thanking "dear" Putin for "having invited me to Moscow before winter began." "The world is fast developping geopolitically," Chavez added. Chavez's visit comes as Russia's relations with the United States are in a deep chill because of Russia's war with Georgia last month -- a conflict where Chavez was one of the few world leaders to support Moscow. Related Links Nuclear Power News - Nuclear Science, Nuclear Technology Powering The World in the 21st Century at Energy-Daily.com
Analysis: Kazakhstan's uranium exchange
Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2008 A year that has seen record-high oil prices has left nations considering alternatives that seemed too expensive or environmentally unfriendly as recently as a year ago, when oil was still $60 a barrel. Wind and wave power, bio-fuels and solar energy are now attracting increased attention, as is nuclear power, which acquired a negative image worldwide after the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island and the 1986 explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl power station, which released 400 times more fallout into the environment than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. As a consequence of the accident at Chernobyl, 237 people suffered from acute radiation sickness, with 31 of those most severely irradiated dying within three months of the accident. |
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