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POWERTECH URANIUM CORP. ("Powertech" or the "Company") (TSX: PWE)(FRNAKFURT: P8A) is pleased to announce that at the Company's Annual General Meeting of the shareholders (the "Meeting") held on July 15, 2008, the Company's shareholders approved the re-election of its current directors, being Richard F. Clement, Jr., Wallace M. Mays, Thomas A. Doyle, Douglas E. Eacrett, Greg C. Burnett and Malcolm F. Clay, and the election of Robert Leclere and Gerard Pauluis, the nominees from Societe Belge...

Text of report by Indian news agency PTI Kalpakkam (TN) [south India] 23 July: The Indo-US nuclear deal would liberate India from a technology denial regime since 1974 enforced after the country first tested its nuclear device and pave the way for "two-way traffic of exchange of inventions and discoveries," a top nuclear scientist said on Wednesday [23 July]. MR Srinivasan, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), said the deal would help India import Light Water Reactors...

By Hagadone, Zach U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, returned recently from a fact- finding trip to France, where he toured several AREVA nuclear facilities and met with the energy giant's CEO Anne Lauvergeon. Craig, who is a senior member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has been a longtime, vocal booster of nuclear energy and was a major player in the effort to bring the AREVA's new $2 billion uranium enrichment facility to the Idaho Falls area. Of particular interest...

Text of article by Komail Naqipur under Gozaresh-e Ruz [Report of the Day] column headlined: The talks and suspension calculations, which one is beneficial to the 5+1 group published by Iranian newspaper Iran website on 15 July The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and the team of diplomats of our country for nuclear negotiation will land at Geneva airport on 29 Tir 1387 [19 July 2008] under circumstances where it is not necessary for their Western counterparts to bargain...

Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan says Ukraine will insist on a transition period of three-four years before Ukraine and Russia fully switch to market prices in gas relations. He notes that the price of gas and gas transit rates for next year will be set during negotiations. He describes the financial state of the national oil-and-gas company Naftohaz Ukrayiny as "balanced". Prodan says the government intends to attract loans to pump 14bn cu.m. of gas into underground storage...

French officials barred residents in three towns from using two rivers in southern France after waste containing uranium leaked into the waterways. The accident happened at the Tricastin nuclear site at Bollene, about 25 miles from Avignon, the BBC reported. Residents along the Gaffiere and Lauzon rivers were banned from fishing, using water from wells, swimming in the rivers or using river water for crops. The unenriched uranium was toxic but the French nuclear safety agency said the risk...

By Dee DePass, Star Tribune, Minneapolis Jul. 9--Defense and aerospace contractor Alliant Techsystems is about to go nuclear in a big way. The Eden Prairie company will complete a centrifuge rotor-tube factory in West Virginia next month that will play a crucial role in delivering cheaper enriched uranium to the resurgent nuclear power industry. Alliant's 125,000-square-foot plant will employ 120 people and produce 11,500 rotor tubes for U.S. Enrichment Corp. (USEC). Alliant's towering...

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI By Ali Akbar Dareini The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium. That came a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment. The content of that response has not been made public and there was caution about the prospects of progress. "It was not something that made us jump up and down for joy," said one...

By WILLIAM H. MILLER - uclear power's resurgence in the United States is tied to a surprisingly effective program that is helping to make the world a safer place from nuclear weapons. Known as the "megatons to megawatts" program, it has led to the elimination of huge stockpiles of nuclear-weapons materials, limiting access to these materials by rogue countries and terrorist groups. Established 15 years ago by the U.S. and Russian governments, the megatons to megawatts accord has a single...

North Korea must abandon all nuclear programs in order to build upon its declaration of its nuclear efforts, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says. Rice said Saturday that the list provided by North Korea this week did not include specifics regarding the country's alleged attempts at creating highly enriched uranium or its current nuclear weapon arsenal, the Yonhap News Agency said. As to the other elements, proliferation and the HEU (highly enriched uranium) program, there are...