The World Energy Council released a report on "The Role of Nuclear Energy in Europe" in London on the 30th, pointing out that nuclear energy has development advantages both economically and environmentally.

Georgian security services said on the 25th that they had captured a Russian man trying to sell weapons-grade uranium raw materials. The man put 100 grams of high-purity uranium in a plastic bag and sold it in his pocket. The quantity and grade of nuclear material involved in this case are rare in recent years.

Mundy, Director General of the International Energy Agency, said that the international oil market is adequately supplied, but still hopes that oil prices will fall further, and warned that excessive declines may hinder investment in the energy sector.

South Korean refinery officials revealed yesterday that Saudi Aramco (Saudi Aramco) plans to cut its Asian oil exports by 14% in February 2007.

German Chancellor Merkel and European Commission President Barroso said after the talks in Berlin on the 9th that the two sides were very concerned about the EU constitution and the Russian oil pipeline cutoff.

After the United States and the United Kingdom jointly launched the Iraq war for more than three years and lost more than 3,000 troops, American and British oil giants are expected to obtain oil exploration rights in Iraq for 30 years.

North Korea's "Rodong Sinmun", "Korean People's Army" and "Youth Avant-garde" published a joint editorial on the 1st, stating that they will create a new situation for the peaceful reunification of the motherland in the spirit of "valuing the nation, safeguarding peace and realizing unity".

A sudden accident plunged the entire country of India into panic. According to a report by India Asia News Agency on the 23rd, a radioactive uranium sample was recently stolen from a research institute in Jharkhand state in eastern India.