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...April 13 ousted leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev said he would formally resign if leaders of the coup that removed him from power guaranteed safety for him and his family. But the nation's interim government said Bakiyev, who fled the capital on April 7, must either face trial or go into exile alone and leave behind family members who served in his regime. The highly unstable Central Asian country is home to an airbase that serves as a main transit point for U.S. troops and supplies into Afghanistan...
Catholic and Protestant lawmakers reached a power-sharing milestone on April 12 by jointly choosing Northern Ireland's first Justice Minister in almost four decades. Not everyone was pleased. Just hours before the agreement, an army base that houses the local branch of Britain's MI5 spy agency was bombed. At his swearing-in the afternoon of the attack--which caused alarm but no deaths--the new minister, David Ford, vowed to work toward political stability...
...detailed report by IBISWorld stated, “Although concerns over the safety of nuclear power plants, especially relating to waste disposal, are likely to persist, rising concern over climate change is expected to improve the image of nuclear power.” This is indeed proving to be the case, with two-thirds of self-described environmentalists now declaring in favor of nuclear energy. All told, 67 percent of all Americans are now positively disposed toward constructing new nuclear power plants, with 46 percent emphatically...
Already 19.6 percent of all the United States’ energy comes from nuclear sources, and although the most recent plant to come online did so in 1977, the green proponents are pushing for a wave of new construction. According to the Department of Energy website, the Nuclear Power 2010 program unveiled in 2002 “has succeeded in building momentum toward a ‘nuclear renaissance’ in which nuclear plants are effective options for zero-carbon electricity production.” Together with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, this program put in place...
...mechanism for firms to simultaneously obtain construction and operating licenses, with the latter conditional on the plant being built to specification. Furthermore, specific provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 offer tax breaks, cost-over run aid (up to $2 billion for the first six new nuclear power plants), and various types of loan guarantees...