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• Modernising ICT Standardisatio n in the EU - The Way Forward: The Commission White Paper on Modernising ICT Standardisatio n in the EU describes some of the dramatic changes which have taken place in the ICT standardisatio n landscape over the last decade or so and invites comments from all interested parties on the possible actions which could be taken to adapt to these changes.
• AFP: Spain backtracks on nuclear power phase-out: Spain's government said Thursday it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power. Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian said the Garona plant in northern Spain, which had been designed to function only until 2011 and whose operating permit expires on Sunday, would now be allowed to operate until July 2013. "This was not an easy decision but it is a thought-out decision," ; he told a news conference, adding the decision would allow for the preservation of jobs in the region at a time of high unemployment. Annotated link http://www.dii go.com/bookmar k/http%3A%2F%2 Fwww.google.co m%2Fhostednews %2Fafp%2Fartic le%2FALeqM5iGW tF0ewlVVRdADVA 8TUGisILEWA
• The Associated Press: IAEA chooses Japanese as new head: The world's top nuclear watchdog chose Japan's Yukiya Amano as its next head on Thursday ? and he touched on the devastation U.S. atom bombs wreaked on his country in pledging to do his utmost to prevent the spread of nuclear arms. The decision by the 35-nation International Atomic Energy Agency board ended a tug of war on who should succeed Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, who saw his agency vaulted into prominence during a high-profile 12-year tenure. North Korea left the nonproliferati on fold to develop a nuclear weapons program on ElBaradei' ;s watch and his agency later launched inconclusive probes on suspicions that those to nations were interested in developing nuclear weapons
• Hopes for nuclear breakthrough on Obama Moscow trip | Politics | Reuters: Hopes are rising on both sides that President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow next week will produce a breakthrough in talks on cutting U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons and on helping Washington in Afghanistan. Officially, neither side has made an announcement but diplomats believe Obama will agree with President Dmitry Medvedev on the outline of a deal to reduce the stocks of deployed nuclear warheads to below 1,700 on each side. "We are confident that we will secure an agreement committing both sides to cutting warheads to fewer than 1,700," one person close to the talks said.
• The Chosun Ilbo (English Edition): Daily News from Korea - Nuclear Reprocessing Should Be an Economic Question: U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher in a written response to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the EU, India and Japan reprocess nuclear fuel within their own territories at present, but she did not think the Obama administration must apply those cases of authorized reprocessing to other countries, including South Korea. She added there was no need for a revision in the Atomic Energy Agreement signed between South Korea and the United States. The comments effectively slap down calls within South Korea to start reprocessing its own spent nuclear fuel. The U.S. government seems wary of South Korea reprocessing spent nuclear fuel from the standpoint of "peaceful " use of nuclear energy, suspecting that the country over the long-term wants to make its own nuclear weapons. South Korea tried to develop nuclear weapons in the 1970s, but scrapped the plan. Now the issue has re-emerged after North Korea's second nuclear test.
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• Electric Light: The parliament 9;s committee for constitutional matters and legislation has concluded that there are no legal obstacles to the adoption of a law banning the building of nuclear power stations in Montenegro. The committee has backed the amendments to the law on the budget, a package of laws on agriculture and the draft law on national parks. Milutin Tomasevic has the report: [Reporter Tomasevic] If at its next session the parliament votes the same as the committee for constitutional matters and legislation, no nuclear plants will be built in Montenegro, and this will be Montenegro 9;s official position in relation to its environment. Deputy of New Serb Democracy Emilo Labudovic defended an opposing view during the debate, declaring himself against such a ban. He maintains that nuclear energy is clean and safe.
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• Energy review backs no nuclear scotland | SNP - Scottish National Party: Scotland?s energy future should be based on non-nuclear sources. The SNP today welcomed a report from the Parliament?s Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee which supported the Scottish Government?s plans for Scotland to build a clean, green and renewable energy future as SNP MSP Rob Gibson called for the UK Government to release £150 million of potential investment in Scotland?s energy future. In their report the Committee state that

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