Business news for Thu, 29 Nov 2007 & with word nuclear. 4 news.

Pyongyang will release a list of all its nuclear programmes as soon as next week, Christopher Hill, US assistant secretary of state, said as talks enter a crucial month

In the news today, some uranium is intercepted in Slovakia. Police have seized 2.2 lbs of radioactive material and arrested two people in Slovakia and one in Hungary, underlining fears in the West that terrorist groups are seeking to build a nuclear device. Now I've worked (still do, a little) in the Russian metals trade and I've even dealt in nuclear materials (wholly legally I hasten to add. I once bought, for example, 40 tonnes of offcuts from (unused, naturally) nuclear fuel rods and sent them to make alloy wheels for flash cars) from there. I have no doubt at

Upon launch of an EU forum on the issue, the European Commission says nuclear energy has a role in the bloc's low-carbon future

Love them or hate them, Germany's two power giants keep the lights on IN AN apparent victory for the little man, the burghers of Ensdorf this week successfully blocked plans by RWE, a huge German power company, to build a spanking new coal-fired power station in their back yard. But those Saarland villagers have won an incomplete victory. Germany needs to add about 35,000 megawatts (MW) of new capacity by 2020, plus another 16,000MW if its nuclear plants are to be phased out by then, as planned. So new power stations will have to be built somewhere. RWE and E.ON, the other German power giant, are treading on eggshells these days. Their duopoly over electricity generation and distribution in Germany is under attack from almost every quarter: the European Commission, the Federal Cartel Office, the Federal Network Agency and, of course, consumers. People are livid that the two giants recently announced price rises of 7-10% for next year, despite record profits in the first three quarters and windfall gains from CO2 emission certificates that they were given free. ...