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Boom-Or-Doom Riddle For Nuclear Industry
2014-07-27 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network.: The headline figures for 2014 from the nuclear industry describe a worldwide boom in progress, with 73 reactors presently being built and another 481 new ones either planned or approved. The World Nuclear Association (WNA) official website paints a rosy picture of an industry expected to expand dramatically by 2030. It says that over the period 1996 to 2013 the world retired 66 reactors, and 71 started operation. Between now and 2030, the industry expects another 74 reactors to close, but 272...
Promises of easier nuclear construction fall short
2014-07-26 18:24:59| Energy - Topix.net
The U.S. nuclear industry has started building its first new plants in decades using prefabricated Lego-like blocks meant to save time and money and revive the once promising energy source.
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Record year for only nuclear plant in Northwest
2014-07-26 16:20:12| Energy - Topix.net
Energy Northwest says the Columbia Generating Station at Richland generated 9.7 million megawatt hours, breaking the old record of 9.5 million megawatt hours generated in fiscal 2006.
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Blood defects Japanese monkey linked Fukushima nuclear disaster
2014-07-26 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Abnormally low levels of white and red blood cells and haemoglobin have been found in Japanese macaques in the Fukushima region, with scientists suggesting that the phenomenon might be linked to the 2011 nuclear disaster. A study that compared blood tests from 61 monkeys living 44 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant with those of 31 monkeys from the Shimokita Penisula, -- 249 miles from Fukushima found the first group had low blood counts and radioactive caesium in their bodies,...
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UK outlines latest nuclear waste storage plans
2014-07-24 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government will spend two years looking for a new site to store nuclear waste from power stations, industry and submarines, it was announced today. A new long term plan to find a site to host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) has been launched following a consultation on improving the controversial process of site identification, which previously failed to deliver a permanent storage site. Currently, nuclear waste is stored temporarily at secure nuclear sites across the country, but...
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