Reports that Japan's government is considering nationalizing the operator of the crippled power plant at the centre of the worst nuclear accident in the country's history are untrue according to a senior government official.
In the wake of several reports in the local and international media t
The head of research at China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC), the country's largest nuclear plant operator, says the crisis at Japan's nuclear crisis should not derail China's plan to develop the nuclear power industry, on Friday.
As Japan struggles with the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake - including a death-toll likely to top 25,000, more than 2,750 injured, 400,000 homeless and an estimated economic cost in excess of USD100 billion - confidence in civilian nuclear power across Asia has been badly shaken.
China has stepped up its monitoring and disclosure of information about radioactive fallout from Japan's stricken Fukushima Dia-ichi nuclear power plant to ease public concern.
The Hong Kong government says it will re-assess the Chinese Special Administrative Region's (SAR's) future energy strategy in light of the nuclear crisis in Japan, Environment Secretary Edward Yau Tang-wah said yesterday.
China's State Council has indefinitely suspended safety approvals for new nuclear plants in the strongest sign yet that the quake-ravaged northeast Japan, and the deepening crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, may affect China's ambitious nuclear expansion plan.
Chinese lawmakers overwhelmingly adopted a national plan to steer the world's second largest economy into a path of fairer and greener growth in the next five years as reported in CleanBiz Asia last week.
The global nuclear watchdog has approved the safeguards agreement between Pakistan and China for building two new nuclear power reactors at the existing facility at Chashma in Pakistan.
As widely anticipated, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao outlined a stream of green targets and initiatives at the opening of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Saturday when he laid out the roadmap for the world's second largest economy over the next five years.
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak has made a special request to Indonesian Co-ordinating Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa to visit South Korea's nuclear facility in Busan, on the sidelines of the latter's recent work visit to South Korea.
Six major emerging economies, the 'BRIMCS' countries (Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, China and South Africa), invest more in energy research and development (R&D) than a large group of developed countries, according to a report.
China's nuclear power sector has been ready to take off for the promising yet-to-come years, and more nuclear power plants will be built during the 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015) period, according to nuclear power expert Zhao Meiyang.
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is claiming a breakthrough in the development of nuclear fuel reprocessing technology which can drastically increase the efficiency of nuclear fuel, the official Chinese media reported in early January, 2011.
As details of China's 12th Five Year Plan continue to be fleshed out, it is clear the economy is being pushed hard down the low-carbon path. Jiang Kejun, research professor in energy systems analysis at the Energy Research Institute – a think tank under China's powerful National Development & Reform Commission – is very well placed to see where that path is leading. He spoke to CleanBiz Asia executive editor Fergus O'Rorke at The Climate Group's Business Summit on Climate Leadership 2011 about progress being made and the inevitable bumps in the road as China approaches the peak of coal consumption.
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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