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Offshore Wind Farm Near Japan's Fukushima Reactor Goes Live

2013-11-12 20:00:00| Transmission & Distribution World

Japan switched on the first turbine at a wind farm 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of Fukushima on Monday, feeding electricity to the grid tethered to the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant onshore. read more

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Areva wins 1.25bn contract for Angra 3 nuclear reactor in Brazil

2013-11-08 01:00:00| Power Technology

French company Areva has won a 1.25bn contract from Eletrobras Eletronuclear to construct the 1,405MW Angra 3 nuclear reactor in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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United States: The farce of the Hinkley C nuclear reactor will haunt Britain for decades

2013-10-21 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Seven years ago, I collected all the available cost estimates for nuclear power. The US Nuclear Energy Institute suggested a penny a kilowatt hour. The Royal Academy of Engineering confidently predicted 2.3p. The British government announced that in 2020 the price would be between 3 and 4p. The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible. It falls a penny short of the...

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Radiation levels near Japan's damaged Fukushima reactor hit two-year high

2013-10-10 06:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Radiation levels in seawater just outside one of the damaged Fukushima reactors spiked this week to the highest level in two years, the operator of the crippled Japanese nuclear plant said on Thursday. Radiation levels on Wednesday, the day six workers were exposed to highly radioactive water, jumped 13 times the previous day's reading, the highest levels since late 2011. A massive quake and tsunami hit the power station, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co, also known as Tepco, in March 2011,...

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