Sentences with phrase «french nuclear industry»

The Japanese government has always played a strong role in shaping the direction of its industries, including nuclear, while the French nuclear industry is entirely government - controlled.

«This is a major step for the implementation of the main elements of the refounding of the French nuclear industry...» said a statement from the office of French President Francois Hollande.

With the French nuclear industry crippled and Toshiba - Westinghouse out of the nuclear construction business, the West is effectively ceding the future of nuclear energy to China, Korea and Russia.

Laponche explained that the French nuclear industry anticipated 1,000 TWh of demand, but domestic needs have yet to top 600 TWh, leaving an oversupply.

Martin Powell, head of campaigns at Transform Drug Policy Foundation, was an analytical chemist for the French nuclear industry before working for a range of charities in Latin America and the UK, including Friends of the Earth, the Environmental Investigation Agency, and the World Development Movement, including as co-chair of the Jubilee Debt Campaign.

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250,000) town 40 miles south of Albertville that was known as a center of the French electronics and nuclear industries and a major producer of gloves.

Late last month, the French industry minister, Dominique Strauss - Kahn, gave conditional backing to a plan devised by the nuclear industry to create what amounts to a politician's dream: a reactor that provides plenty of electricity without generating vast quantities of long - lived radioactive waste.

CEA Tech is the technology research branch of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), a key player in innovative R&D, defence & security, nuclear energy, technological research for industry and fundamental science, identified by Thomson Reuters as the second most innovative research organization in the world.

Radioactive waste leaks threatens vineyards and farming communities in the Champagne and Normandy regions, while the nuclear industry ignores French laws prohibiting dumping of foreign nuclear waste in France.

However French oil company Total has already spoken up for future involvement in nuclear, with incoming CEO Christophe de Margerie declaring that the company will one day have to be part of the nuclear industry.

As for the French National Academies, David Brenner has pointed out in print that the relevant committees were heavily loaded with folks connected to the nuclear industry in France.

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A report released by the French government in November 2003 called for a significant expansion of the industry, including the construction of a third - generation of nuclear reactors and the upgrading of existing plants.

The Japanese and French governments will be compelled to act for economic reasons — their nuclear industries are too important to their economies to fail.