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2013 Renewable Energy Projects Triple Amount of New Coal, Oil and Nuclear Combined
2014-01-27 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Renewable energy sources are still playing catch up when it comes to their percentage of the nation`s installed electricity capacity, but 2013 was a crucial year for their rise. Renewable energy--solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and hydropower--accounted for more than 37 percent of all new, domestic power generating capacity installed last year, according to the "Energy Infrastructure Update" report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission`s Office of Energy Projects. That percentage represents...
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GE Hitachi to Pay $2.7 Million to Settle Allegations Over Nuclear Reactor Statements
2014-01-23 23:14:36| ENR.com: Headline News
New reactor design still being reviewed by Nuclear Regulatory Commission for possible certification.
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Nuclear power is set to disappoint, again: Kemp
2014-01-21 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Nuclear power is the energy dream that refuses to die, despite serious accidents at Windscale (1957), Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima (2011). Many of the arguments that were employed in favour of nuclear in the 1950s and 1960s as a solution to oil supplies running out are now being resurrected in favour of nuclear as a solution to climate change. But the promise of safe, clean and reasonably priced nuclear power seems as far away now as it was 60 years ago. We are still...
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Texas Company Alone in U.S., Cashes In on Nuclear Waste
2014-01-20 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Standing at the lip of what might be Americas most valuable hole in the ground, Rodney A. Baltzer cataloged the features that he said would isolate the radioactive waste to be buried here for thousands of years. First, Mr. Baltzer said, there is a base layer of nearly waterproof clay, then a layer of concrete reinforced with steel and then three layers of plastic. When the waste, loaded into concrete containers, fills the pit, he said, it will be topped by a 40-foot-thick covering cap that includes...
Magnox signs 200m contract with nuclear waste container suppliers
2014-01-20 01:00:00| Power Technology
Magnox has signed a 200m six-year contract with Croft Associates, Chester-Simplex, and Siempelkamp Nukleartechnik for the supply of waste containers to store waste generated from nuclear power stations in the UK.
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