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Fukushima Nuclear Operator Tepco to Close Two More Reactors in Japan
2013-12-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The operators of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan are to decommission two reactors that were not badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. They have bowed to public pressure that the plant be shut permanently. Workers are still struggling to stem leaks of contaminated water, and have begun to remove fuel rods from a storage pond at a reactor building. Four reactors were severely damaged by the disaster that struck in March 2011. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco)...
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U.S. Energy Department Invests Small-Scale Nuclear Reactors
2013-12-13 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Small, nearly meltdown-proof nuclear reactors are receiving a big boost from the U.S. Department of Energy. The department will give a company in Corvallis, Oregon, as much as $226 million to develop so-called "small modular reactors," which can be used with many local power grids that can't accommodate conventional nuclear reactors. Because of the extremely low likelihood of meltdown, the next-generation, small-scale reactors are safer than many currently operating reactors, engineers say. The company,...
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The world's 10 smallest nuclear reactors
2013-12-12 01:00:00| Power Technology
Interest in small nuclear reactor designs has grown steadily in recent years, as technology advances to create more power from less fuel. Power-technology.com lists the world's 10 smallest commercial nuclear reactors, either in operation or under con
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Magnetic fields could super-cool your gaming PC, nuclear reactors
2013-11-21 18:38:27| Extremetech
Now a team of researchers are using this fundamental fact, along with a strong magnetic field and a few billion metal nanoparticles, to make liquid coolant systems many times more effective.
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South Korea should say how many nuclear reactors to be added: public hearing
2013-11-07 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: South Korea should reduce its reliance on nuclear power as advised by a working group last month but should clarify how many new reactors will be added in absolute terms, participants at a public congressional hearing said on Thursday. A working group in October recommended that South Korea reduce nuclear power's share of overall generating capacity, but participants at the hearing said that might still mean a rise in the number of reactors as power demand grows. The study group said nuclear...
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