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 Moscow (AFP) July 29, 2009 
Two generators at Russia's Kola nuclear power plant near Murmansk, in the far northwest, were shut down due to a fault in the anti-fire system, energy group Energoatom said Wednesday. The shutdown took place late Tuesday and one of the generators went back on line Wednesday morning, the group said in a statement. It added that capacity was currently reduced to 896 milliwatts compared wit ... read more
Amman (AFP) July 28, 2009Jordan is forging ahead with a peaceful nuclear programme that would turn the energy-poor kingdom into an exporter of electricity, nuclear chief Khaled Tukan told AFP. "We are moving in great strides in the field of civilian nuclear energy in order to stop being dependent on the import of fuel," said Tukan, who chairs the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC). Jordan is the latest Sunni ... more
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Berlin (AFP) July 24, 2009One of Germany's most modern nuclear power stations was shut down on Friday due to a technical fault, operator RWE said, less than three weeks after problems at another reactor hit the headlines. The Emsland reactor in north-west Germany, which supplies around 3.5 million households, underwent an automatic shutdown at 3:00 am (0100 GMT), RWE said in a statement. "We are looking into what ... more 
Paris (AFP) July 23, 2009Engineering groups Alstom and Schneider said on Thursday they might launch a joint bid for the Transmission and Distribution business being sold by Areva, France's state-controlled nuclear power giant. "Schneider Electric and Alstom envisage submitting a joint offer" for the T&D operations, the two companies said in a statement. Ultimately, Alstom could end up with the transmission ... more 
Bangi, Malaysia (UPI) Jul 22, 2009 Malaysia aims to use nuclear power as an alternative energy source by 2025, a government official said. Nuclear policy has received the go-ahead to be implemented and the government will link up with international organizations such as the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Malaysia's Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Fadillah Yusof, the New ... more |
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Vilnius (AFP) July 14, 2009Japan's Mitsubishi, among the world's leading manufacturers of nuclear reactors, is interested in working on Lithuania's planned nuclear energy plant, the Baltic nation's prime minister said Tuesday. "Their interest in our plan is important for us," Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said, quoted by the Baltic News Service. "We think that we can use this to develop wider contacts as well," ... more 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 15, 2009The withdrawal of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste. In an article in the July 10 issue of Science, University of Michigan geologist Rodney Ewing and Princeton University nuclear physicist Frank von Hippel argue that, although federal agencies should set ... more 
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. We are ... more |
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