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UK, EDF say talks continue over nuclear strike price
2013-10-10 05:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Talks between the British government and France's EDF (EDF.PA) over financial terms for building a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset are continuing, the two parties said on Thursday. "No agreement has as yet been reached," a senior press officer at the Department for Energy and Climate Change said. "A contract will only be offered if it's value for money, fair and affordable, in line with government policy on no public subsidy for new nuclear and consistent with state aid rules,"...
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Report Says a Shortage of Nuclear Fuel Looms
2013-10-09 04:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Most nuclear reactors in the United States rely on a type of lithium that is produced only by China and Russia, and the supply may be drying up, according to a study to be released on Wednesday. The Government Accountability Office said the looming shortage of a material critical to the operation of 65 out of 100 American nuclear reactors places their ability to continue to provide electricity at some risk, a conclusion echoed by outside experts. The problem reflects the withering away of the...
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Degradation found on wall at Pa. nuclear plant
2013-10-08 16:54:40| Energy - Topix.net
Officials say a small patch of degradation has been found on the inside wall of the containment building surrounding a western Pennsylvania nuclear plant.
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VIDEO: 'Have to learn to love nuclear power'
2013-10-08 14:55:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Environmentalist Mark Lynas said he "grew up hating nuclear power" but later realised that "continuing to oppose nuclear was a mistake".
Nuclear power no answer to climate change
2013-10-07 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Advocating nuclear power as an answer to global warming is analogous to prescribing smoking for weight loss. Nuclear reactors do not stand alone but rely on a massive industrial infrastructure using fossil fuel and other global warming gases. Renewable energy that is readily available, cheaper than nuclear and coal, and can rapidly avert global warming must be immediately implemented by global governments. Robert Stone is rightly concerned about global warming (The Age, October 4) so I refer...
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