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• Areva faces 50 pct cost rise for Finnish nuclear reactor: report

  - 2008-08-27

  PARIS AFP — French nuclear group Areva is facing a 50 percent rise to the cost of building the world's first next-generation pressurised water reactor in Finland, the business daily Les Echos reported Thursday. The cost of constructing the plant at Olkiluoto has risen from three billion to 4.5...

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• Rebels abduct four French nationals in Niger

  - 2008-06-22

  LAGOS AFP — Tuareg rebels abducted four French nationals working for nuclear group Areva in the uranium-rich north of Niger and said Sunday they would be freed quickly "with a message for the Areva management". The four were seized in the northwest African country by an ethnic Tuareg rebel...

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• Areva to create world's largest uranium mine in Namibia

  - 2008-06-18

  WINDHOEK AFP — French nuclear group Areva plans to invest 750 million dollars to create the world's largest uranium mine in Namibia, the company said Wednesday. Namibia's mining ministry granted the license on Tuesday for Trekkopje, some 300 kilometres (190 miles) west of the capital Windhoek, said Iain McPherson,...

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• Areva aiming to dominate British nuclear design: CEO

  - 2008-06-08

  LONDON AFP — French nuclear giant Areva is aiming to dominate the design and construction of future reactors in Britain, its chief executive told the Financial Times in an interview published on Monday. According to Anne Lauvergeon, as well as having pledges from leading energy companies EDF and Eon,...

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• Total, Suez, Areva to build two nuclear plants in Abu Dhabi

  - 2008-01-14

  PARIS AFP — French nuclear giant Areva, oil company Total and utility group Suez have reached agreement on plans to build two next generation nuclear power plants in Abu Dhabi, Total said Monday. A Total spokeswoman said the two plants would be based on the third-generation system developed by...

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• Nuclear giant Areva renews deal with Niger

  - 2008-01-13

  PARIS AFP — French nuclear giant Areva announced a deal with Niger on Sunday fixing uranium prices for the next two years and green-lighting production at the billion-euro (1.5-billion-dollar) Imouraren site. The agreement marks a return to harmonious relations with the west African state after authorities deported a local...

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• Sarkozy clinches 30 bln dlrs in trade deals with China

  - 2007-11-25

  BEIJING AFP — French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday oversaw the signing of about 30 billion dollars in aviation, nuclear and other deals in what he described as an unprecedented day of trade with China. The two major agreements announced on the second day of Sarkozy's visit to China...

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• French president clinches $30 billion in trade deals with China

  - 2007-11-25

  BEIJING AFP — French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday oversaw the signing of about 30 billion dollars in aviation, nuclear and other deals in what he described as an unprecedented day of trade with China. The two major agreements announced on the second day of Sarkozy's visit to China...

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• French-Japanese consortium to carry out US nuclear study

  - 2007-10-02

  PARIS AFP — An international consortium led by French nuclear group Areva and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has won a 5.6-million-dollar contract to carry out a feasibility study for a giant nuclear fuel recycling project in the United States, Areva said Tuesday. Areva "has signed a contract today with...

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• Areva pledges commitment to peace in Niger's uranium zone

  - 2007-09-05

  NIAMEY AFP — French nuclear engineering group Areva has assured Niger of its commitment to peace in a nation where it has been accused of financing Tuareg rebel unrest where it mines uranium, state media reported Wednesday. "We're a major player in the economic and social development of Niger,...

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