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For Clinton residents, nuclear plant's 'impact is significant'
2014-03-30 14:42:05| Energy - Topix.net
Exelon's Clinton nuclear plant is shown Wednesday. The plant, which began commercial service in 1987, can generate nearly 1,065 megawatts, enough to power about 1 million homes.
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'Small' Nuclear War Could Trigger Catastrophic Cooling
2014-03-29 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Even a relatively small regional nuclear war could trigger global cooling, damage the ozone layer and cause droughts for more than a decade, researchers say. These findings should further spur the elimination of the more than 17,000 nuclear weapons that exist today, scientists added. During the Cold War, a nuclear exchange between superpowers was feared for years. One potential consequence of such a global nuclear war was "nuclear winter," wherein nuclear explosions sparked huge fires whose...
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UK's Russia nuclear deal under review
2014-03-25 13:58:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK is reviewing its nuclear co-operation agreement with Russian state firm Rosatom because of the Ukraine crisis.
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China says Japan nuclear stockpile move step in right direction
2014-03-25 13:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China said on Tuesday that Japan's agreeing to turn over sensitive nuclear material of potential use in bombs to the United States was a step in the right direction, but that it had other material it still needed to hand over. The leaders of Japan and the United States, meeting at a nuclear security summit in the Netherlands, said that hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of material of potential use would be downgraded and disposed of. "China welcomes the reaching of this deal," the Foreign Ministry...
Europe new nuclear experience casts shadow over Hinkley
2014-03-25 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With two new UK reactors planned at Hinkley Point C in Somerset and three years after the meltdowns at Fukushima in Japan, it is worth considering whether the design, procurement, construction, and management of nuclear power plants is sufficiently reliable to allay public concern over radiation and value for money. In the case of the reactor design chosen for Hinkley C, the French-designed European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), there is not yet a finished power plant to judge by. The two plants...
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