New French President pushes nuclear energy cooperation

President Nicolas Sarkozy has been offering French cooperation and expertise on nuclear energy development around the world since his recent election. He's recently offered to share expertise with Algeria, having already offered to collaborate with Georgia and having exteneded an existin agreement with Vietnam

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European companies propose US enrichment plant

French nuclear company Areva is proposing the Enrichment Technology Company - a joint venture with British/Dutch/German company Urenco - be involved in the building of an enrichment plant in the US. The plant could be up and running by 2013, reaching full capacity by 2017. The plant would be yet another one planned to be built in the States, along with the National Enrichment Facility and the American Centrifuge plant.

All these new plants are needed because the amount of enriched uranium available from old nuclear weapons is reducing. Currently up to half of the nuclear fuel used in the US comes from Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles.

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