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Nuclear renaissance is stone cold dead
2013-12-24 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: The industry is finding it increasingly difficult to profitably operate existing reactors - especially ageing reactors requiring refurbishments - let alone build new ones. This year has been the nuclear power industry's annus horribilis and the nuclear renaissance can now be pronounced stone cold dead. Nuclear power suffered its biggest ever one-year fall in 2012 - nuclear generation fell 7% from the 2011 figure. Nuclear generation fell in no less than 17 countries, including all of the top...
The 'nuclear renaissance:' What went wrong?
2013-11-07 11:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: For more than 30 years, Dan Dominguez helped operate the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Diego. Now he's helping to button it up for good. Dominguez is one of nearly 600 people still working at the two-reactor plant, down from a work force of more than 1,500 when the plant was still running -- "all solid, middle-class jobs," he said. "A lot of them have already moved on," Dominguez said. They've gone to work for other U.S. nuclear plants, for conventionally fueled plants or other...
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United Kingdom: Nuclear renaissance under fire as Centrica mulls project exit
2013-02-04 10:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The UK's plans for a new fleet of nuclear reactors have received a triple blow over the past few days, after Centrica confirmed it is to shelve its nuclear investment plans, MPs published a report slamming Sellafield's waste management efforts, and Cumbria County Council last week blocked plans for a new radioactive waste storage facility. The Financial Times reported today that Centrica would not exercise its option to take a 20 per cent stake in EDF's plans for two new reactors at Hinkley Point...
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