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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has given the European Commission authority to conclude a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with Uzbekistan, which would be formally struck with the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). The deal would focus on cooperation in research projects into nuclear electricity generation operations, actions to improve the safety of power plants, the trade in nuclear materials and the provision of nuclear fuel cycle services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised this autumn to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ACTION plan designed to further spur growth in the key broadband and third-generation (3G) mobile sectors has been unveiled by the European Commission and will be presented to the European Union’s (EU) spring summit in Brussels next month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investing Euro 14 million to create a ‘CASCADE’ network of excellence investigating the presence and effect of harmful chemicals in common foodstuffs. It will include more than 20 universities, research institutes and businesses.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has published a comprehensive analysis of the world’s forest products industry and markets. With the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, it has released Forest Products Annual Market Analysis, 2002-2004. It covers forest products market and policy developments in Europe, north America and the former Soviet Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…

BY MARK ROWE
A GLASS of beer a day keeps old age at bay, apparently. A Japanese scientist has developed a beer that he claims makes you look younger by improving the texture and smoothness of your skin. While there was a passing craze in the 1970s for women to wash their hair in beer to give it more “body”, this brew, translated as “facial treatment beer”, is drunk, rather than applied.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCIENTISTS in the Netherlands say they have developed a way of overcoming problems of low brightness and slow movement of images (via pixels) in electronic paper (e-paper). Their breakthrough, says the European Commission’s research directorate “could ease the development of wireless, animated newspapers and books.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN cigarette sales dropped more than twice as much in the four US states that spend the most on tobacco control, including health publicity and education programmes, according to a new study published in the country’s Journal of Health Economics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) agency has concluded that chewing betel quid causes oral cancer, whether or not tobacco is included in ‘pan’ mixes especially popular with ethnic south Asians. The problem is of particular concern in the UK, which imports more betel than any country outside of Asia, (imports have doubled since the early 80’s).…