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Article: NEWS IN BRIEF.
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- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2009
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Algeria claims 29,000 tons in uranium reserves Nearly 29,000 tons of proven and exploitable uranium reserves lie beneath the ground in Algeria, its energy and mines minister Chakib Khelil said Thursday. "Such quantities would enable the operation of just two nuclear power plants, each with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, for a period of 60 years," said Khelil at a domestic energy conference, the APS news agency reported. Last month and again this month, Algeria issued a call for expressions of interest for the sale by auction of nine uranium sites, all in the Tamanrasset region in Algeria's deep south. Algeria has two experimental reactors, built with Argentinean and ...