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Exelon May Close Nuclear Plants to Save Money
2014-02-12 05:20:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Chicago-based Exelon announced that it would look at closing nuclear plants to save money. read more
NE Ohio nuclear plant gets $600 million upgrade
2014-02-10 23:30:28| Energy - Topix.net
FirstEnergy Corp. has begun work to replace the two original steam generators at the Davis-Besse nuclear plant near Toledo.
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Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds
2014-02-09 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York times: Half a mile beneath the desert surface, in thick salt beds left behind by seas that dried up hundreds of millions of years ago, the Department of Energy is carving out rooms as long as football fields and cramming them floor to ceiling with barrels and boxes of nuclear waste. The salt beds, which have the consistency of crumbly rock so far down in the earth, are what the federal government sees as a natural sealant for the radioactive material left over from making nuclear weapons. The process...
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Japan's nuclear re-start bogged down in safety checks and paperwork
2014-02-09 05:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hundreds of technicians and engineers are camped out in Tokyo hotels trying to revive Japan's nuclear industry, shut down in the wake of the Fukushima disaster almost three years ago. It's proving a hard slog. A new, more independent regulator is in place, asking difficult questions and seeking to impose tougher safety rules on powerful utilities that were largely their own masters for the past 50 years. The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) was created in 2012 and set new safety guidelines...
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2 Former Premiers Try to Use Tokyo Election to Rally Public Against Nuclear Power
2014-02-08 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Waging an impassioned political campaign, two retired prime ministers, including one of Japans most popular political figures, have tried to turn a local election in Tokyo into what they call Japans first referendum on the future of nuclear power since the accident in Fukushima nearly three years ago. But as the vote on Sunday approaches, polls and political analysts say the two aging leaders have not yet been able to persuade enough voters to back their quixotic bid against nuclear power. Analysts...
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