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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2009 
The so-called "nuclear renaissance" is finding few friends among state lawmakers in the United States. The nuclear power industry has been shut out across the board in 2009 in its efforts in all six states - ranging across the nation from Kentucky to Minnesota to Hawaii - where it sought to overturn what are either explicit or effectively bans on construction of new reactors, according to the no ... read more
Saint Petersburg (AFP) Aug 28, 2009Russia on Friday shut down a reactor at its nuclear power plant near the second city of Saint Petersburg after a pump burst, a spokesman for the plant told AFP. The leak in one of the Leningrad nuclear power plant's four power blocs was discovered late Thursday, the spokesman Sergei Averianov said, adding that levels of radioactivity in the area were within the accepted norm. ... more
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Gorleben, Germany (UPI) Aug 26, 2009 Germany's only storage test facility for high-level nuclear waste, into which Berlin has invested nearly $2 billion over the past years, is unsafe and needs to be closed, experts say. German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel, a known opponent of nuclear energy, said Wednesday that the salt dome Gorleben, chosen in the 1970s to become Germany's national storage facility for high-level ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2009For nearly 30 years, the inbox for new license applications at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) collected nothing but dust. These days, the inbox has no room for dust. "In the past two years, we have received applications to build and operate 28 new nuclear power plants in the U.S.," NRC spokesman Scott Burnell says. The agency has recently received several letters of intent ... more 
Sofia (AFP) Aug 25, 2009Bulgaria appointed a new chief executive of its only nuclear power plant on Tuesday after his predecessor was forced to quit amid a pricing scandal, the government announced. Economy and energy minister Traicho Traikov said Dimitar Angelov would take over as head of the Kozloduy plant although his appointment will have to rubberstamped by the state-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding's board of ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) Aug 18, 2009Russia's state-owned nuclear energy giant Rosatom is buying Germany's Nukem Technologies, a specialist in decommissioning nuclear power stations, a Nukem spokeswoman said Tuesday. Nukem Technologies, a part of Nukem Group, also deals with nuclear waste management and has major operations in Russia and the former Soviet bloc. Rosatom is already in a nuclear energy joint venture with ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 14, 2009China has sacked a top nuclear power official, state press said Friday, after reports he was being investigated for allegedly squandering public funds and taking bribes of up to 260 million dollars. Kang Rixin, born 1953, was removed as party secretary and general manager of state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) due to possible involvement in "grave violations of discipline", ... more  
Mumbai, India (SPX) Aug 14, 2009India plans to power some parts of the Chandrayaan II--its next unmanned mission to the moon- with nuclear energy and the feasibility studies are being carried out by Indian Space Research Organisation and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. "We are thinking of powering some parts of Chandrayaan II with nuclear power and it will power the spacecraft when it revolves aroung the dark side of the ... more |
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