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China to boost nuclear fuel reserves to feed new reactors
2016-03-11 07:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China will expand its strategic uranium reserve as part of its "five-year plan" for 2016-2020, with the aim of ensuring it has enough fuel to supply a massive program of new nuclear reactors. Beijing, which began stockpiling uranium in 2007 and is estimated by the World Nuclear Association to have 74,000 tons of inventory - or about nine years of current demand - does not disclose details of its reserves. However, demand is expected to outstrip domestic supply in coming years and a move to...
Japan marks fifth anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster
2016-03-11 03:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Decontamination workers observed a moment of silence to mourn the victims of the 2011 tsunami. (Reuters/Kyodo) Related Story: Japan's PM announces 'safe' reactors to be turned back on Related Story: The ghosts of Fukushima: Reflections five years on Related Story: Fukushima survivors rebuild new life in deserted town Map: Japan Ceremonies have been held across Japan to mark five years since one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded spawned a monster tsunami, killing more than 18,000 people...
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Nuclear accidents make mutant bugs and birds
2016-03-11 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Biologist Timothy Mousseau has spent years collecting mutant bugs, birds and mice around Chernobyl and Fukushima. In a DW interview, he shares some surprising insights into the effects of nuclear accidents on wildlife. DW: Professor Timothy Mousseau, did you collect these mutant firebugs [pictured at the top of the page]? Timothy Mousseau: Yes, the firebugs are really an eye-opener. My research partner Anders Moller and I were visiting Chernobyl on April 26, 2011. We were wandering around Pripyat...
Japan court orders KEPCO to shut two nuclear reactors in Takahama
2016-03-11 01:00:00| Power Technology
A court in Japan had ordered Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) to suspend two of its nuclear reactors in Takahama, Western Japan, following complaints from local residents about plant safety.
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Japanese court orders closure of two nuclear reactors
2016-03-09 10:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A Japanese court has ordered the closure of two nuclear reactors previously declared safe under strict post-Fukushima safety rules. The order, made just days before the fifth anniversary of the atomic disaster, would bring the number of operating reactors in Japan down to two. Dozens were shut in the wake of Fukushima, the worst nuclear accident in a generation. The ruling by the Otsu district court the first to force the shutdown of reactors switched on under stricter safety rules adopted...
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