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EDF to finalise decision on Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear power project
2016-04-25 01:00:00| Power Technology
France's Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron has revealed that state-owned company EDF will make a final investment decision on England's 18bn 3,200MW Hinkley Point C nuclear power project in September.
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China to build nuclear power plants on artificial islands
2016-04-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Tribune: China's quest to fence off a big chunk of the South China Sea may have just gotten another, powerful boost: plans for a fleet of floating nuclear power plants that could provide huge amounts of electricity for the far-flung atolls and islets. While floating nuclear power plants are hardly a novel idea, their use in the South China Sea - a typhoon-wracked hotbed of territorial disputes and increasing military rivalries - would be worrisome both for environmental and security reasons. Chinese state...
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China to develop floating nuclear power plants
2016-04-22 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York: All the radar systems, lighthouses, barracks, ports and airfields that China has set up on its newly built island chain in the South China Sea require tremendous amounts of electricity, hard to come by in a place hundreds of miles from the countrys power grid. Beijing may have come up with a solution: floating nuclear power plants. A state-owned company, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, is planning to build a fleet of the vessels to provide electricity to remote locations including offshore...
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Hanford Nuclear Leak Worsens Dramatically, Waste Elimination Needed
2016-04-22 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Nuclear waste leak at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is said to have worsened dramatically, as proven by leaking between the two underground tanks which displayed an unusual amount of increase on Sunday. Union Bulletin reported that the amount of radioactive waste leak rose up eight inches more than usual and later decreased by one half. Jerry Holloway of Washington River Protection Solutions, a company managing the underground tanks for the U.S. Department of Energy said that they are checking...
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Germany calls on Belgium to temporarily shutdown two nuclear reactors
2016-04-21 01:00:00| Power Technology
German Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks has officially requested the Belgian Government to temporarily shutdown its Tihange 2 and Doel 3 nuclear reactors over safety concerns.
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