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United Kingdom: EDF confirms it wants 40-year contracts to build nuclear plants
2013-02-19 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Electricity firm EDF has confirmed it wants the UK government to sign 40-year contracts to support building new nuclear reactors in Britain as the national energy regulator warned prices are likely to rise higher than expected. The French-owned company is in talks with ministers over "contracts for difference" funding, under which the government guarantees generators will be paid a minimum price for electricity from new nuclear plants: if the market price falls lower than this "strike price"...
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Nuclear Power Cannot Compete with Cheap Shale Gas
2013-02-19 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Nuclear power stations in Canada and the United States are closing because they cannot compete with cheap power being produced from shale gas. This revolution in the way North America produces its electricity is sending shock waves through the nuclear industry in Europe too. New nuclear build will be spectacularly uneconomic if a fracking industry is successful in the United Kingdom. Gas prices would tumble as they have across the Atlantic. Even the existing nuclear stations in France, Belgium...
Operations start at first China nuclear plant since Fukushima
2013-02-19 01:00:00| Power Technology
The Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant (HNPP) has commenced operations, marking the first nuclear power plant to come online in China since the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.
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Japanese Cos, Kazakhstan Sign MOU on Nuclear Power Cooperation
2013-02-18 19:24:01| Chemicals - Topix.net
Japan Atomic Power Co. and Marubeni Corp. said Monday that they have signed a preliminary agreement with the Kazakhstan government to cooperate in Kazakhstan's introduction of nuclear power.
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Nuclear Waste Seeping From Container In Hazardous Wash. State Facility
2013-02-16 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: They thought they'd managed this problem a few years ago. But Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee got a disturbing call Friday from Energy Secretary Steven Chu: Nuclear waste is leaking out of a tank in one of the most contaminated nuclear waste sites in the U.S. Inslee released a statement, saying a single shell tank at Hanford Nuclear Reservation is slowly losing between 150 and 300 gallons of radioactive waste each year. All of the liquid was removed from the tank in February 1995; what's left...
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