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Nuclear Power Advertising Kit |
 Hamburg, Germany (UPI) Jul 10, 2009 
The reputation of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall has been tarnished by a series of incidents at nuclear plants all over Europe. Vattenfall has a PR problem after several incidents at its nuclear power stations. Tuomo Hatakka, the head of Vattenfall Europe, called them a "bitter setback for all the efforts we made with regards to our safety culture over the last two years.
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Berlin (AFP) July 9, 2009The Swedish operator of the aging German nuclear power station Kruemmel revealed on Thursday more problems at the plant, which has been shut down for emergency repairs since the weekend. All 80,000 fuel rods at the plant near Hamburg will be examined from Friday because "it looks as if one or several of the rods in the reactor is defective," said Ernst Michael Zuefle, head of operator ... more
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Paris (AFP) July 9, 2009Tension is shaping up over pressure from EDF, the world's biggest nuclear power producer, for a price leap for French households amidst big developments in France's vital nuclear power industry. The group's chief executive Pierre Gadonneix revealed in a magazine interview on Wednesday that EDF was seeking permission from the government to raise the price of household electricity by ... more 
Seoul (UPI) Jul 7, 2009 South Korea aims to push to expand "peaceful and commercial" use of nuclear energy in upcoming talks with the United States aimed at revising a nuclear pact signed in 1974, an official said Monday. South Korea is prohibited from reprocessing spent nuclear fuels under the current agreement, which expires in 2014. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Yu Myung-hwan said South ... more 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 09, 2009On May 18, 2009 the first floating nuclear power plant was set up in St. Petersburg (Russia). The contract, signed by OPK and "Concern Energoatom" PLC on February 27, 2009, anticipated the construction, launching, rebuilding and testing of the power plant. The exploitation of the head floating power-generating unit, with KLT-40C type reactor, is the final step of this project. According to ... more
Berlin (UPI) Jul 6, 2009 An incident at an error-prone German nuclear reactor has refueled the debate over the country's future energy mix. On Monday, Greenpeace activists amassed before the Kruemmel nuclear power plant near Hamburg to protest yet another incident at the Vattenfall Europe-run facility. It shut down automatically on Saturday after a transformer short-circuited. Kruemmel was reopened only ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) July 5, 2009South Korea's state-run power company has bought a 17-percent stake in a Canadian uranium producer, securing a stable source of fuel for its nuclear power plants, a report said Sunday. Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) acquired the stake from Canada's Denison Mines Corp for 68 million dollars, Yonhap news agency said. KEPCO has also signed an agreement on a strategic alliance with the ... more 
Madrid (AFP) July 2, 2009Spain's government said Thursday it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power. Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian said the Garona plant in northern Spain, which had been designed to function only until 2011 and whose operating permit expires on Sunday, would now be allowed to ... more 
Seoul (AFP) July 2, 2009South Korea's foreign minister called Thursday for a new nuclear accord with the United States that would allow his country to reprocess plutonium for commercial civilian use. An accord signed by the two close allies in 1974 stops South Korea separating plutonium from spent fuel from its civilian nuclear power plants. The pact expires in 2012. "It's necessary to revise the US-SKorea ... more 
Helsinki (AFP) July 1, 2009Poor planning has led to rising costs and huge delays for a nuclear reactor going up in Finland, the country's biggest-ever construction project, officials said. The plant on the island of Olkiluoto in western Finland, to be run by Finnish nuclear power company TVO, was meant to start production this summer. But it is now not expected to open for another three years and Finnish ... more |
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