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Under Revised Quake Estimates, Dozens Nuclear Reactors Face Costly Safety Analyses

2014-04-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Owners of at least two dozen nuclear reactors across the United States, including the operator of Indian Point 2, in Buchanan, N.Y., have told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that they cannot show that their reactors would withstand the most severe earthquake that revised estimates say they might face, according to industry experts. As a result, the reactors owners will be required to undertake extensive analyses of their structures and components. Those are generally sturdier than assumed in...

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Safety US Nuclear Reactors Called into Question in New Report

2014-03-08 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: A new report by the influential non-profit group National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) suggests that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still not adequately protecting American nuclear reactors from the risk of hydrogen explosions such as the ones that crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear campus three years ago. In a severe loss-of-coolant scenario such as the one that triggered the meltdown at Fukushima after a March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, uranium-filled fuel rods, made...

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Construction of Two New Nuclear Reactors Approved in China

2014-03-03 01:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Softpedia: China gives the green light to plans to build two new nuclear reactors Late last week, the Ministry of Environmental Protection in China gave the thumbs up to plans to build two new nuclear reactors in the country's Shandong province. Information made available to the public says that, all in all, the construction of the two brand-new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors will come with a price tag of $5.1 billion (EUR3.69 billion). According to Oil Price, the purchaser is to be state-owned utility...

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US DOE provides $6.5bn loan guarantee for two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle

2014-02-20 01:00:00| Power Technology

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced it will approve approximately $6.5bn in loan guarantees for the construction of two new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors at the Alvin W. Vogtle electric generating station, also known as Plant Vogtl

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