je.st
news
Tag: nuclear
Plug Pulled On California Nuclear Plant, For Good
2013-06-07 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Southern California Edison announced Friday morning that it will not restart the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant. The facility has been offline for a year and a half after a leak in a steam tube created safety concerns.
Tags: good
california
plant
plug
San Onofre Is Dead and So Is Nuclear Power
2013-06-07 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of today all three are permanently shut. Its a monumental victory for grassroots activism. It marks an epic transition in how we get our energy. In the thick of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, Nixon said thered be 1000 such reactors in the U.S. by the year 2000. As of today, there are 100. Four have shut here this year. Citizen activism has put the nuclear renaissance into full...
The End Comes for a Troubled California Nuclear Plant
2013-06-07 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The two reactors at Californias troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station will be permanently shut down, the plants owners said today. The Los Angeles Times has the details in this piece: Activists praise San Onofre closure, but 1,100 layoffs expected. The decision leaves one operating plant, Diablo Canyon, in the state. Troubles at the San Onofre plant started building in January last year, with the problem described succinctly in The Times: In 2009 and 2010, Southern California...
Tags: end
california
plant
nuclear
Nuclear Power, Part 1: A Smaller, Safer Future
2013-06-07 19:09:23| TechNewsWorld
Keeping the lights on in the global industrial world -- never an easy task -- never seems to get any easier. Nuclear energy, which provides nearly 20 percent of our nation's electricity, is at a crossroads. Can nuclear reactors -- the torrid, pulsating, heat-generating hearts of nuclear power plants -- ever be safe enough? Thanks to several new technologies, the outlook is promising.
Tags: part
power
future
smaller
Nuclear Dominoes Fall in California and Kentucky
2013-06-07 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Southern California Edison (SCE) has abandoned plans to restart its two nuclear reactors at San Onofre. The announcement this morning comes exactly one week after termination of operations at the Paducah, Kentucky, uranium enrichment plant, which for decades had provided the fuel for San Onofre. It drops the number of operating nuclear reactors in the U.S. below one hundred for the first time since the early 1980s. The San Onofre decision ends 18 months of wrangling between the utility and environmental...
Tags: fall
california
kentucky
nuclear
Sites : [255] [256] [257] [258] [259] [260] [261] [262] [263] [264] [265] [266] [267] [268] [269] [270] [271] [272] [273] [274] next »