je.st
news
Tag: nuclear
Japan court issues injunction to halt Takahama nuclear reactors
2016-03-09 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Japanese court on Wednesday issued an injunction to halt operations at Kansai Electric Power's Takahama No.3 and No.4 nuclear reactors, the operator said, siding with local residents worried about the safety of the plant. The order, by the Otsu District Court, will take immediate effect and lead to the shutdown of Takahama No.3 reactor, which restarted in late January, Jiji news agency said. This is the first injunction issued in Japan to halt a nuclear plant that is under operations, said Jiji...
Tags: issues
japan
court
nuclear
Fessenheim nuclear power plant in France heads for closure
2016-03-09 01:00:00| Power Technology
France is to begin closure works on Fessenheim nuclear power plant this year.
Tags: france
power
plant
heads
United Kingdom: Hinkley Point nuclear project in crisis as EDF finance director resigns
2016-03-07 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The 18bn Hinkley Point C nuclear project was in crisis on Sunday night after reports that the finance director of EDF, the company behind the scheme, had resigned. Thomas Piquemal has stood down from his post after expressing trenchant opposition to those on the EDF board who want to give the green light to the project within weeks, sources said. The resignation of such an important figure on the EDF board will make it much harder for the remaining executives to proceed with Hinkley in the...
Tags: point
united
project
kingdom
EDF man 'quits' over UK nuclear plant
2016-03-07 00:56:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The finance director at French energy giant EDF quits over the firm's plan to build the UK's first new nuclear power plant in decades, reports say.
Bolivia agrees $300 million nuclear complex with Russia's Rosatom
2016-03-06 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Bolivia and Russia's state-owned atomic energy corporation Rosatom said on Sunday they had signed a provisional agreement for the construction of $300 million nuclear complex in the Andean nation. Under the terms of the accord, which needs to be approved by Bolivia's Congress, Rosatom will help Bolivia develop infrastructure for its embryonic nuclear program. The center will include a research reactor, a cyclotron for radiopharmaceuticals and a multi-purpose gamma irradiation plant. Opposition...
Tags: million
complex
bolivia
nuclear
Sites : [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] next »