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| December 24, 2013 |
 Romania says Enel, ArcelorMittal exit nuclear project Bucharest (AFP) Dec 23, 2013 - Energy giants Enel and ArcelorMittal will pull out of the construction of two nuclear reactors in Romania after a Chinese company entered the deal, Romanian officials said Monday. Italy's Enel and the Romanian subsidiary of ArcelorMittal "have decided to sell their stakes of respectively 9.15 and 6.2 percent in EnergoNuclear," the project company, said Nuclearelectrica, a Romanian state-owne ... more |  |
 China interbank rates surge again despite cash injection Beijing (AFP) Dec 23, 2013 - China's interbank interest rates surged again on Monday despite hefty cash injections last week by the central bank, suggesting money market stress remains as authorities maintain a prudent stance. The seven-day repurchase-agreement rate - a benchmark for interbank borrowing costs - rose to 9.8 percent, the highest since it hit 11.62 percent on June 20 at the peak of China's summer cash cr ... more |  |
 Correa slams report on CIA role in Ecuador strike Quito (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Ecuador President Rafael Correa warned Monday that reports US intelligence played a role in a 2008 Colombian attack on FARC rebels in his country could threaten regional peace efforts. Over the weekend, The Washington Post reported that a secret Central Intelligence Agency program had helped Colombia kill at least two dozen leftist guerrilla leaders. And, according to the report, it was ... more |  |
Westinghouse Expands European Nuclear Center To Meet Growing Demand Nivelles, Belgium (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - Westinghouse Electric Company today inaugurated the extension of its European Maintenance Center in Nivelles, Belgium to provide scalable growth to support an increasing customer base, including Electricite de France (EDF), as well as Spanish energy giants Endesa and Iberdrola. The expansion will provide an additional 1,000 square meters of maintenance and storage space to support the Cent ... more |  |
Solvay and AREVA team up to develop new thorium applications Paris, France (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - Solvay and AREVA have signed an agreement to develop new applications for the use of thorium, an element that is abundantly present in the earth's crust and part of rare earth elements or uranium. The agreement aims to define the conditions ensuring the responsible management of thorium. It includes the deployment of a R and D program to study, amongst others, the use of thorium as a poten ... more |  |
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 Diamonds in Earth's oldest zircons are nothing but laboratory contamination Riverside CA (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - As is well known, the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. No rocks exist, however, that are older than about 3.8 billion years. A sedimentary rock section in the Jack Hills of western Australia, more than 3 billion years old, contains within it zircons that were eroded from rocks as old as about 4.3 billion years, making these zircons, called Jack Hills zircons, the oldest recorded geological ... more |  |
US forces ready for possible new S.Sudan evacuations Washington (AFP) Dec 23, 2013 - The US military on Monday deployed a special Marine Corps unit and aircraft to the Horn of Africa to prepare for possible further evacuations of Americans from South Sudan, officials said. "The secretary of defense has been following this situation very closely," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren told reporters. "We are repositioning our forces in the area of concern," Warren sai ... more |  |
 Scientific data lost at alarming rate Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - Eighty per cent of scientific data are lost within two decades, according to a new study that tracks the accessibility of data over time. The culprits? Old e-mail addresses and obsolete storage devices. "Publicly funded science generates an extraordinary amount of data each year," says Tim Vines, a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia. "Much of these data are unique ... more |  |
 Lockheed Martin Team Moves Forward In DARPA Robotics Challenge Homestead, FL (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) recently completed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge trials at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Lockheed Martin-led team, which includes the University of Pennsylvania and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, guided an Atlas humanoid robot through a number of tasks designed to simulate disaster response s ... more |  |
 York scientists' significant step forward in biofuels quest York, UK (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - Scientists at the University of York have made a significant step in the search to develop effective second generation biofuels. Researchers from the Department of Chemistry at York have discovered a family of enzymes that can degrade hard-to-digest biomass into its constituent sugars. 'First generation' biofuels have already made an impact in the search for renewable and secure energy sou ... more |  |
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Lifeline oil fields under rebel threat in South Sudan Juba (AFP) Dec 22, 2013 - Rebel forces in South Sudan threaten the crucial oil fields key to the economy, experts warn, risking possible military intervention by old enemies Sudan should production not be protected. On Saturday, a key army commander in control of Unity state - one of the most important petroleum regions - defected to join the rebel forces of Riek Machar, the fugitive former vice president. Army ... more |  |
 Finnish Santa Claus wants to go global, all year round Helsinki (AFP) Dec 22, 2013 - As a brand, Santa Claus has one major flaw: he is only really valuable a few weeks at the end of each year. In Finland, they're trying to do something about this. Petri Paarnio, director of Santa Claus Licencing, the firm that holds the rights to market the Santa Claus name in Finland, wants to see him bring joy to children's hearts but also to generate business - all year round and all ar ... more |  |
 One dead, seven injured by contaminated China parcels Beijing (AFP) Dec 21, 2013 - A man was killed and seven others were injured in China after receiving parcels from a delivery company that had become contaminated with toxic chemicals, it was reported Saturday. The unnamed man, from China's eastern Shandong province, died after taking delivery of a box of shoes in late November which were tainted with methyl fluoroacetate, a highly toxic chemical, the Xinhua news agency ... more |  |
Over 1,000 protest in Niger against French nuclear firm Areva Niamey (AFP) Dec 21, 2013 - More than 1,000 demonstrators marched in the Niger capital Niamey on Saturday to protest against their country's "unbalanced" partnership with nuclear firm Areva as the French giant negotiates a new uranium mining agreement with the government. The protesters, including students, rights activists and politicians, chanted "Down with Areva!" and "No to a win-lose contract" as they made their w ... more |  |
Finland's Fennovoima inks reactor deal with Russia's Rosatom Helsinki (AFP) Dec 22, 2013 - Finnish power company Fennovoima has signed an agreement with Russia's Rosatom for the delivery of a mid-sized nuclear reactor, the Finnish company said in a statement. The planned reactor, of the type AES-2006, will be located in Pyhaejoki in northwest Finland and be operational in 2024, Fennovoima said. As part of the agreement signed Saturday, Rosatom will take a 34-percent stake in F ... more |  |
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Army commander in South Sudan oil-state 'joins rebels': army spokesman Juba (AFP) Dec 21, 2013 - A top South Sudan army commander based in the key oil-producing Unity state appears to have defected to rebel forces, the country's army spokesman said Friday. "We have lost contact with the commander... and there are reports he has joined the forces of Riek Machar," army spokesman Philip Aguer told AFP, but he added that government forces were still in control of the area. Fighting brok ... more | |
 Chinese users welcome Apple, China Mobile deal Beijing (AFP) Dec 23, 2013 - Chinese users welcomed a long-awaited tie-up between Apple and China Mobile, the world's biggest wireless operator, but analysts warned Monday that the deal's impact depends on the quality of the carrier's 4G network. The US technology giant and China Mobile on Sunday unveiled the agreement to bring the iPhone to customers on a network with an estimated 760 million subscribers and until now ... more |  |
Apple, China Mobile sign iPhone deal New York (AFP) Dec 23, 2013 - Apple on Sunday unveiled a long-anticipated deal with China Mobile, the world's biggest wireless carrier, to bring the iPhone to customers in a market dominated by low-cost Android smartphones. The deal gives Apple a bigger entry into the huge Chinese market and China Mobile's estimated 760 million subscribers. The network is also rolling out the world's biggest 4G network. Under the agr ... more |  |
After security breach, US retailer Target offers discount Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2013 - US retailer Target is making up for a major IT security breach by offering its customers in the United States on Saturday and Sunday a ten-percent discount on any single purchase. Some 40 million customers may have had information from their credit and debit cards compromised by hackers who broke into its database between November 27 and December 15, Target said Thursday. The next day co ... more |  |
Sonar search for China tycoon missing after France chopper crash Bordeaux (AFP) Dec 22, 2013 - French police were using two sonar units late Sunday to scan a river bed in southwest France for the bodies of a Chinese tycoon and a French winemaker missing after their helicopter crashed. Efforts to find the remains of Lam Kok, a 46-year-old Chinese tea-and-property magnate, his interpreter and financial advisor, Peng Wang, and James Gregoire, a French entrepreneur and the pilot of the he ... more |  |
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