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Alternative Energy News Sunday January 7th 2007

AES executive joins alternative energy group's board
(bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance: Fri, 05 Jan) AES, one of the largest power companies in the world, is bringing its muscle to a national group that's an advocate for alternative energy.

WP: Nuclear energy is resurgent
(MSNBC: Sat, 06 Jan) Governments from South America to Asia are turning once again to a power source mostly shunned for being too dangerous and too costly

German Renewable Energy Usage at Record High in 2006
(Planet Ark: Fri, 05 Jan) BERLIN - Renewable energy usage will rise further in Germany this year after reaching its highest ever level in 2006, the BEE renewable energy association said on Thursday.

The follow up file: Still using that nuclear energy expertise
(The San Luis Obispo Tribune: Sun, 31 Dec) Name: David Oatley Job: Private consultant to the U.S. nuclear energy industry What he said then: When The Tribune spoke to David Oatley in March, the vice president of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant was retiring from PG&E after eight years as Diablo's general manager. Oatley said the long hours and intense pressure of running a nuclear power plant contributed to ...

Britain shuts down nuclear power veterans
(Energy Business Review: Wed, 03 Jan) British Nuclear Group has begun the lengthy process to decommission the worlds two oldest commercial nuclear power facilities, Dungeness A in Kent and Sizewell A in Suffolk.

North Qld physicists play down nuclear power fears
(ABC via Yahoo!7 News: Thu, 04 Jan) Two north Queensland physicists have labelled the potential effects of radiation from nuclear power sources as 'overstated'.

In the Global Energy Rush, Nuclear Gets A Resurgence
(Washington Post: Sat, 06 Jan) Sixty miles outside Buenos Aires, construction crews soon will be swarming over a partially built concrete dome abandoned 12 years ago, resuming work on Argentina's long-delayed Atucha II nuclear power plant. They will be in the vanguard of surging interest in nuclear power worldwide.

Geothermal project shakes Basel again
(NZZ: Sat, 06 Jan) Basel has been rocked by another earth tremor, this time measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale, that centred on the site of a planned geothermal power plant.

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