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EU drafts nuclear waste guidelines

Wed, 10/27/2010 - 23:34 by harsheeb

Brussels -- The European Union says it will require member states to implement strategies for storage of nuclear waste, recommending deep burial underground.

About half the EU's member states have nuclear power stations, but all generate waste from a range of nuclear applications in medicine, industry, research and education, EUobserver reported Tuesday.

The European Commission, in its Directive on the Management of Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste set to be released next week, says it wants that waste buried deep underground.

Economic Outlook: Europe's first quarter

Fri, 05/15/2009 - 17:07 by Salinder Kumar

New York -- The European Union's statistical office Eurostat said inflation was stable in the first quarter, but productivity had declined substantially.

Inflation held close to even, at 0.6 percent in April, unchanged from a month earlier.

But Eurostat said Friday the gross domestic product for the Euro area and the 27 countries known as the EU27 had dropped by 2.5 percent in the first quarter, compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. Compared to a year ago, the GDP has dropped 4.6 percent in the Euro area and 4.4 percent in the EU27, which adds Sweden, Britain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania to the Euro area's 16 states.