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Arson investigators belonging to the Fire Service were on Kythera Monday to ascertain the cause of the devastating blaze on the Greek island.

The blaze, which broke out Friday morning, was mostly contained on Monday after consuming at least 2,000 hectares of forest and farmland.

The fire near the village of Izvorishte in Burgas is limited, the press center of the Ministry of Interior reports. Ten fire teams, volunteers, equipment from Burgas Municipality, as well as agricultural machinery continue the fire-fighting activities.

Turkey's energy watchdog has given a power generation license to Akkuyu Nuclear JSC for a 49-year period, starting as of June 15. 

In a statement, the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) reclled that it had issued a preliminary license for power generation to the company for a three-year period. 

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The latest ultrasonic inspections have detected a substantial number of new micro cracks in nuclear reactors at the Tihange and Doel power plants in Belgium since the last study conducted three years ago, Belgian and German media report.

The Parliament approved at first reading changes to the energy law introducing clear criteria in the use of thermal energy for agriculture, FOCUS News Agency reported.

The bill was backed by 91 MPs, 6 voted against, while 60 abstained.

Everybody with environmental sensitivity in Turkey agrees fossil fuels like coal should be abandoned and renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power should be considered.

The partition of the smaller units of the nuclear power station Kozloduy has started so that the metal remnants can be submitted for recycling.

The dismantling of the nuclear units will be executed by the state-owned company Radioactive Waste, as reported by bTV news.

Negotiations about Units 3 and 4 at Cernavoda (nuclear power plant in southeastern Romania) are advancing pretty slowly, with investors still being fearful, but we are hoping that we will be able to provide the best conditions so that these units may be finished as soon as possible,' Andrei Dominic Gerea, the Minister of Economy, said on Monday at an event organised by the Nuclear Agency and fo

The Chinese return to Romania to talk about the Cernavoda nuclear power plant units, after they were back to China to celebrate the wooden goat, Energy minister Andrei Gerea declared on Tuesday in the Senate's Transports and Energy Committee.

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The US Pentagon submitted its 2016 budget, where through a series of money-saving actions it was able to conserve more than half a billion dollars’ worth in expenditures in order to “fill up” (Fuel up) aircraft carrier George Washington.