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U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt said it was her initial complaint that has led the Department of Energy's Inspector General to investigate Areva, a competitor with USEC's American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon for federal loan guarantee money. Schmidt said federal law prohibits the DOE from entering into contracts with companies that have business operations in the Sudan under the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007. Areva is a French company and, according to Schmidt, it conducts gold mining operations in the Sudan.

U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt said it was her initial complaint that has led the Department of Energy's Inspector General to investigate Areva, a competitor with USEC's American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon for federal loan guarantee money. Schmidt said federal law prohibits the DOE from entering into contracts with companies that have business operations in the Sudan under the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007. Areva is a French company and, according to Schmidt, it conducts gold mining operations in the Sudan.

The Sudanese government announced today that it signed a framework agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on developing a nuclear energy program. The Sudanese cabinet session headed by President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir was briefed on the details of the agreement from minister of science and technology, Professor Ibrahim Ahmed Omer. The spokesperson of Sudan's cabinet, Omer Mohammed Saleh said the understanding between the two sides also includes using nuclear technology to improving productivity in agricultural and livestock, enhance infrastructure to treat cancer patients, uncovering drug resistant malaria, new energy sources, a study of groundwater basins and feeding it and the production of medical isotopes.

A Sudanese official disclosed today that his country is contemplating developing a nuclear power programme for scientific research. The Sudanese minister for Science and Technology Ibrahim Ahmed Omer told the official news agency (SUNA) that his government received approval for its plans from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Omer said that IAEA will fund the programme jointly with the Sudanese government. However he did not say if a formal agreement has been signed.