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PG&E Will Close Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant, Using Renewables Instead
2016-06-27 00:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Formule Poker: PG&E Will Close Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant, Using Renewables Instead California's last nuclear power plant will close by 2025 under an accord announced this week, ending three decades of safety debates that helped fuel the national anti-nuclear power movement. - Located near Avila Beach along the central California coast. Under the accord, PG&E has agreed not to seek relicensing for the plant, which supplies 9 percent of the state's power. "Diablo Canyon is safe, secure and reliable", he...
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Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant to be shut down
2016-06-26 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GadgetSandTechnologh News: Closing the plant should be cheaper than operating the facility through 2044 as planned, meaning the utility probably won't have to increase rates, PG&E said. PG&E plans to retrain workers during the plant's decommissioning process and offer a severance package. The latest twist writes a beginning of the end of the nuclear plant at Diablo Canyon, whose development in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired an award-winning motion picture, "The China Syndrome", and an entrenched collection of anti-nuclear...
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Russia: Rosatom's global nuclear ambition cramped by Kremlin politics
2016-06-26 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The $100 billion overseas order book of Russia's nuclear power plant builder Rosatom -- bigger than all its Western competitors combined -- makes it look like the giant in its field. But if the company -- formed in 2007 from the Russian Atomic Energy Ministry and tasked with turning nuclear power into a major export industry -- is ever to reach its potential as a global industrial giant, it will have to shed Russia's reputation for using energy policy as a means to political ends. Deal after...
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Rigspray selected to protect pipelines in the UAEs first nuclear power plant
2016-06-23 19:42:58| Canadian Plastics Headlines
Denso Archco-Rigidon Rigspray has been chosen to provide internal pipeline protection for a nuclear power plant that is under construction in Abu Dhabi. The post Rigspray selected to protect pipelines in the UAEs first nuclear power plant appeared first on Canadian Plastics.
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Nuclear power fades in California as energy grid gets stressed
2016-06-23 14:05:14| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: California's stressed-out power grid was handed another blow this week, when the state's last operating electricity-generating nuclear power plant said it plans to go offline in less than a decade. PG&E, owner of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant and a major provider of power for northern California, said Tuesday that it plans to shut down the facility when its current operating license expires in 2025, to meet the state's renewable energy policy goals. Though the plant has been in operation since...
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