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Borrowing costs up as spending for Duke Energy nuke plant reaches $403.4M

2014-08-01 14:45:46| Energy - Topix.net

Borrowing costs are taking a bigger and bigger bite of the spending Duke Energy is doing on pre-construction work for its proposed Lee Nuclear Plant.

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Panel wants TEPCO execs charged over nuke crisis

2014-07-31 10:40:00| Energy - Topix.net

A Japanese judicial panel has recommended that three former executives of the utility that operates the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant face criminal charges over their role in the disaster.

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US Energy Secretary defends possible German nuke waste imports

2014-07-28 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Monday defended his agency's controversial move to consider processing spent nuclear fuel from Germany at South Carolina's Savannah River Site nuclear facility, saying the proposal is consistent with U.S. efforts to secure highly enriched uranium across the globe. The United States has for years accepted spent fuel from research reactors in various countries that was produced with uranium of U.S. origin as a part of U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy and...

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Japan Plan Restart Nuke Plants Ignores Lessons Learned From Fukushima

2014-07-16 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: The decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) to approve the draft assessment for the two Sendai nuclear reactors in Kyushu is a clear and dangerous signal that Japan`s nuclear village--industry, regulators and government--is deliberately and cynically ignoring the lessons of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The approval of the assessment is the first step in restarting the Sendai reactors. The two Sendai reactors have been shutdown since 2011. These are old reactors--29 and 30 years respectively....

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