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Nuclear, Ethanol On Bush-Howard Agenda
By Mr Ethanol | August 27, 2007
The Age:
US President George Bush will invite Australia to be part of two initiatives aimed at guaranteeing future energy supplies: his global nuclear partnership and an initiative to produce ethanol from wild grasses.
Both issues will be raised by Mr Bush at bilateral talks ahead of the APEC meeting next week, senior officials said.
Prime Minister John Howard will today outline his objectives for APEC in an address to the Lowy Institute. The timing of the September 8-9 meeting is politically important — the election could be announced as early as a week or fortnight later.
The US, through the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, is already driving a major research effort to develop a new generation of fast-cycle reactors that would produce far less hazardous waste than conventional nuclear reactors. The group includes many countries involved in the nuclear fuel cycle, including Russia, China and France.
Its broader aim is to eventually secure the entire fuel cycle and confine production and reprocessing to members of the group, thus reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation. More.
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