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Doubts over EDF's Hinkley nuclear plan
2016-03-12 17:00:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Fresh doubts arise over French energy firm EDF's plans for an 18bn nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
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Five Years After Nuclear Disaster Fukushima Remains Highly Contaminated
2016-03-11 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: It has been five years since a powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. While a few towns closed after the disaster have reopened and some locals have returned, groundwater en route to the ocean, as well as nearby soils, remain highly contaminated with radioactive waste. Toxic water and soil that has been removed by the cleanup projects 8,000 workers sit in a growing number storage tanks on the property, several of which...
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Interactive Map Detials What You Need to Know About the Worlds Nuclear Power Plants
2016-03-11 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: From the latest crisis over plans for Hinkley Point in the UK, to todays fifth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power plants are currently much in the news. To help provide a global overview of the nuclear power sector both today and throughout its history, Carbon Brief has produced this interactive map. It shows the location, operating status and generating capacity of all 667 reactors that have been built or are under construction, around the world, ever since Russias tiny Obninsk...
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KAIST research team proposes micro modular nuclear reactor cooled by supercritical CO2
2016-03-11 12:56:23| Green Car Congress
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Wildlife heaven or nuclear hell: Chernobyl future up for grabs
2016-03-11 12:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: A white-tailed eagle soars in the clear winter air. It is hunting for fish in one of the most radioactive bodies of open water on the planet: the 12-kilometre-long cooling pond whose waters doused the burning Chernobyl nuclear power station after it exploded 30 years ago. The pond is radioactive as are the fish. But they are also abundant. Wildlife is booming in the exclusion zone that stretches for some 30 kilometres from the corroding plant. Grey wolves, lynx, wild boar, rabbits, moose...
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