Nuclear N-Former: India's nuke program to gain momentum
’The Indo-US nuclear deal and India's subsequent entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), ending 34 years of nuclear isolation, has thrown open business opportunities worth an estimated $100 billion by the year 2032. The country is planning to increase its nuclear power generation by about 60,000 mega watts (Mw) within the next 25 years. This planned capacity addition is being executed by the state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). Its head, Chairman and Managing Director SK Jain, tells P B Jayakumar about his plans and expectations. Excerpts: Do you think India's nuclear energy ambitions will gain momentum, now that the Dr Manmohan Singh-led government is back in power and that, too, without the Left parties which opposed the nuclear deal? Yes, I hope the new government will be able to continue the good work done in the past few years on nuclear co-operation with the international community. I think our planned programmes will gain momentum with the new government back in power. In the past few months, a lot of discussions on our civil nuclear programme have taken place.’

Guardian: New nuclear needs stronger carbon price -utilities
’LONDON, June 10 (Reuters) - Europe's biggest utilities can afford to build Britain's new nuclear power stations but want heavier, long-term charges on rival climate-warming power plants to support their multi-billion pound investments, executives from two of the leading potential builders said on Wednesday. The chief executive of EDF Energy, leading the push to replace Britain's ageing nuclear reactors, and the head of the UK arm of German utility E.ON, warned that the current carbon market was not enough to ensure investments in low-carbon technologies like nuclear and fight climate change. "It should be the principal tool for achieving an affordable transformation to a low carbon economy," Vincent de Rivaz, the head of the UK arm of French nuclear power giant EDF told the Nuclear Industry Forum in London which was dominated by talk about carbon prices on Wednesday. "So far the carbon market has not achieved its objective and needs to change. In the past carbon prices have fallen to unrealistic levels and there is considerable uncertainty about the future."’

UPI: Serbia to ship 3 tons nuke waste to Russia
’BELGRADE, Serbia, June 10 (UPI) -- Serbia will transport three tons of used nuclear fuel from its Nuclear Research Institute at Vinca, outside Belgrade, to Russia, officials said Wednesday. The removal of the nuclear waste to Russia should delete Serbia from the list of possible targets for international terrorists, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic told reporters in Belgrade. Djelic and Sergey Kiriyenko, director of the Russian Rosatom company, signed an agreement in Belgrade on the transport of the nuclear waste to Russia.’