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 Berlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2009 
Some 50,000 anti-nuclear protestors on Saturday demonstrated here against Germany possibly reversing a decision to abandon nuclear power, and instead extend the life of its nuclear power plants. The marchers, backed by 400 tractors, demanded that Germany stick to its commitment to close all nuclear plants by 2020 and also called for the closure of a radioactive dump at Gorleben in eastern ... read more
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2009The 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 ... more
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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 
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 |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 20, 2009China has given the green light to a plan to start building the third phase of its Tianwan nuclear power plant on the east coast from October next year, a government agency has announced. Two new reactors, each with a capacity of one gigawatt, will be built at the site in Jiangsu province, the state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) said in a statement on its ... more 
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 |
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