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By ALAN OSBORN

For long the Cinderella of the engineering industry, nuclear power appears to be regaining its popularity as a career choice with a surprising increase in university courses, mainly but not exclusively in the US. In some countries, like France, enthusiasm has never faltered and a clear career pattern in nuclear sciences has been established for years.…

BY ERIC LYMAN

SPEAKING to the Petroleum Review, the United Nations’ top climate change official has urged oil and gas companies to stay focused on sustainability despite the world economic turmoil, and predicted that the coming years will reward efficiency more than ever.…

BY PATRICIA KELLY

THE EUROPEAN Commission is still debating when to launch a Green Paper that could spark new European Union (EU) laws on indoor air quality (IAQ), amidst strong pressure from the European Parliament for legislation and guidance on the issue which would affect plastics manufacturers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will be launched in January after 51 countries agreed upon its statute at a conference in Madrid. An initiative promoted by Germany, Spain and Denmark, it will encourage political and regulatory reforms favouring renewable energy growth while providing information on best practices and promoting technology transfers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ignored European Commission calls for a legal precedent that waste-to-energy plants follow the same environmental impact assessment rules as simple waste incineration.

Brussels had called on judges to clarify the EU environmental impact assessment directive 85/37/EEC in a German case about authorising a wood gas firing combined heat-and-power plant.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

PLAYERS serving the US$900 million Bangladeshi tobacco market have contracted over the past several years from 15 companies to just seven – with Dhaka Tobacco and British American Tobacco (BAT) now joint number one companies in terms of quantity.…

BY PAUL RIGG

ROBBERIES, competition from immigrants and the state of the economy are the issues of most pressing concern for Spanish hauliers, according to drivers interviewed in truck stops on the outskirts of Madrid by Commercial Motor.

"I woke up with my kidneys and head hurting like I’d drunk a bottle of whisky," said Elias Calyo, 46, from Andalucia in the south of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DRIVING licence authorities within the European Union (EU) can refuse to recognise a pre-existing second foreign EU licence, if a driver had another home country licence issued by that authority withdrawn by a court: that is the formal opinion of European Court of Justice advocate general Yves Bot.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE CREDIT crunch may be about to apply the handbrake to the Russian economy, but its paint industry continued to flourish in 2008, mirroring the expansion of wealth in the country, and suggesting the sector may buck the expected downturn in the coming 12 months.…

BY MARK ROWE

FOR the nuclear power plant industry, global economic crises can make for uncertain times. On the one hand, the long lead-in times associated with construction, along with copper-bottomed signed state contracts, should mean many projects continue as usual.…