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DOE awards $3.5M for advanced nuclear reactor projects
2013-06-28 12:30:18| Green Car Congress
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Missing nuclear material may pose attack threat: IAEA
2013-06-28 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Nuclear and radioactive materials are still going missing and the information the United Nations atomic agency receives about such incidents may be the tip of the iceberg, said a senior U.N. official. Any loss or theft of highly enriched uranium, plutonium or different types of radioactive sources is potentially serious as al Qaeda-style militants could try to use them to make a crude nuclear device or a so-called dirty bomb, experts say. Khammar Mrabit, a director of the U.N.'s International Atomic...
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Agenda Released for July Meeting of the Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative
2013-06-28 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative (NESCC), joint initiative of ANSI and NIST, released agenda for spring meeting (July 23, 2013 in Washington, DC). Meeting will include presentations on nuclear energy standards from ISO Technical Committee (TC) 85 on nuclear energy and the lessons learned during construction of Vogtle Electric Generation plant near Waynesboro, GA as well as discussion of NESCC framework document and results of survey of NESCC members. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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United Kingdom: Nuclear power gets 10bn financial guarantee boost
2013-06-27 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government has responded to warnings that Britain is on the brink of power blackouts by announcing 10bn in financial guarantees to the nuclear power industry a concession aimed at paving the way for the building of the first new reactor in the country for a generation. The support for French generator EDF, which is in negotiations to build the Hinkley Point nuclear power station, was announced by the Treasury chief secretary, Danny Alexander, as the centrepiece of a 100bn package of infrastructure...
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Kentuckys Nuclear Future Melts Down to Lawsuits
2013-06-26 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Commonwealth of Kentucky may sue the federal government to compel cleanup of the now-closing uranium enrichment site at Paducah, according to the governor and the state attorney general. The quasi-privatized operator of the facility, USEC Inc., filed suit against the Department of Energy (DOE) in May. Shareholders and/or bondholders of USEC may sue the company for a third or fourth time over its current financial collapse, and the feds may have to sue USEC if it defaults on its obligation to...
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