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Two Years After Fukushima, Japan's Nuclear Lobby Bounces Back
2013-03-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The crowds of anti-nuclear protesters have dwindled since Japan's "Summer of Discontent" last year, and a new government is keen to revive the country's atomic energy industry, but Morishi Izumita says he is not about to throw in the towel. "We can't give up. I'm here every week," said 64-year-old Izumita, one of hundreds gathered outside the prime minister's office one Friday nearly two years after a huge earthquake and tsunami triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986...
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Safety Breaches Seen Plaguing U.S. Nuclear Reactors: Report
2013-03-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Almost one-in-six U.S. nuclear reactors experienced safety breaches last year due in part to poor oversight by federal regulators, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. Incidents including a cooling water leak and unusual wear on steam generator tubes were reported at 16 units owned by companies including Entergy Corp. (ETR) and Edison International (EIX), the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based environmental group said in its third annual report on reactor safety released today. The...
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Areva builds first fuel assemblies for Taishan nuclear power plant
2013-03-08 01:00:00| Power Technology
French nuclear firm Areva has completed construction of the first fuel assemblies for the Taishan nuclear power plant in China.
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United Kingdom: EDF admits nuclear talks have gone 'critical'
2013-03-07 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The long-running negotiations between the government and EDF over its plans to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point have reached a "critical" stage, raising fresh questions over the viability of the coalition's plans for a "nuclear renaissance". The Telegraph reported this morning that an internal memo from EDF Energy chief executive Vincent de Rivaz this week admitted that while the company was continuing to try and reach an agreement with the government "the negotiations are very...
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Magnox awards construction contract for UK nuclear decommissioning sites
2013-03-07 01:00:00| Power Technology
Costain Nuclear Process has secured a contract from Magnox to undertake construction, infrastructure and maintenance work across 10 nuclear decommissioning sites in the UK.
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