je.st
news
Tag: nuclear
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...
Tags: new
report
question
called
IDC: Nuclear Power Generation At The Crossroads
2014-03-07 03:51:23| oilandgasonline Downloads
This IDC Energy Insights white paper examines the future of nuclear power across the globe, analyzes the role of IT in the design, permitting, construction, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear power plants; and provides recommendations to plant owners on ensuring a secure and robust IT infrastructure.By Jill Feblowitz
Tags: power
generation
nuclear
idc
Report: Aging nuclear power plants in Europe pose increased risk
2014-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: A new report says Europes fleet of nuclear power plants pose an increasing risk to millions of Europeans as the facilities age, and as governments decide to extend the operation of plants beyond their originally intended lifetimes. The nearly 150-page report, commissioned by Greenpeace, synthesizes the research of eight European nuclear energy experts. It concludes that because of Europes heavy dependence on nuclear energy, governments are likely to extend plant operations 20 years or more past...
Tags: report
power
europe
increased
EU Weighs UK Aid to Britains Planned Private Nuclear Projects
2014-03-05 17:38:54| ENR.com: Headline News
As an antitrust probe continues, French-British developers spend big on related infrastructure and project planning.
Tags: private
projects
aid
planned
How France is disposing of its nuclear waste
2014-03-04 15:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Half a kilometre below ground in the Champagne-Ardenne region of eastern France, near the village of Bure, a network of tunnels and galleries is being hacked out of the 160 million-year-old compacted clay rocks. The dusty subterranean science laboratory built by the French nuclear waste agency Andra is designed to find out whether this could be the final resting place for most of France's highly radioactive waste, the deadly remains of more than half a century of nuclear energy. Emerging from...
Tags: france
waste
nuclear
disposing
Sites : [179] [180] [181] [182] [183] [184] [185] [186] [187] [188] [189] [190] [191] [192] [193] [194] [195] [196] [197] [198] next »