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China adds most nuclear for year with 3.2GW
2014-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Spectator: This year has seen China make a significant impact on the world's nuclear power industry, having brought three new reactors online with a total capacity of 3.2 gigawatts (GW), according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData. Sneha Elias, GlobalData's analyst covering power, states that alongside new reactors Yangjiang 1, Hongyanhe 2 and Ningde 2, China has also announced a substantial investment in two new units at the Haiyang facility. The analyst says: "On 27 February...
Texas Regulators OK Expanding Nuclear Waste Site
2014-08-20 23:41:29| Waste Management - Topix.net
Depleted uranium from federal energy facilities can be buried at a nuclear-waste dumping site in West Texas, state regulators decided Wednesday.
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Rosatom Nuclear Construction Portfolio Threatened by Sanctions Against Russia
2014-08-19 18:10:56| ENR.com: Headline News
The packages Rosatom can put together the ones in Finland and Hungary are hard for commercial vendors to rival because Rosatom has such strong financial backing from the federal government, says Edward Kee, analyst for National Economic Research Associates.
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The cost of caring for Europe's elderly nuclear plants
2014-08-17 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars. Nuclear power provides about a third of the European Union's electricity generation, but the 28-nation bloc's 131 reactors are well past their prime, with an average age of 30 years. And the energy companies, already feeling the pinch from falling energy prices and weak demand, want to extend the life of their plants...
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Delays for SC nuclear plant pressure industry
2014-08-16 17:46:02| Energy - Topix.net
The latest announcement came this week from executives at SCANA Corp., which has been warned by its builders the startup of the first of two new reactors in South Carolina could be delayed two years or more.
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