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Japan to restart controversial nuclear reactor after 14 yearsTokyo (AFP) May 6, 2010 Japan plans to restart Thursday its controversial fast-breeder nuclear reactor after operations were suspended for more than 14 years following a sodium leak and a fire. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency is scheduled to relaunch Monju, the nation's only fast-breeder reactor, around 10:30 am (0130 GMT). The facility was shut down in 1995, less than two years after Monju had started generating power, after a special thermometer broke, leaking high-temperature metallic sodium that reacted violently wi ... read more |
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Lesmo, Italy (AFP) April 26, 2010Italian energy giant Enel and its Russian partner Inter Rao Ues reached a preliminary accord Monday to study the feasibility of building a nuclear reactor in Kaliningrad. Enel boss Fulvio Conti and Inter Rao Ues's acting chairman Boris Kovalchuk signed a memorandum of understanding as Italian and Russian prime ministers Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin met at Villa Gernetto in the town o ... more 
Abu Dhabi (AFP) April 22, 2010The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp (ENEC) on Thursday announced it has chosen a site near the Saudi border for its first nuclear power station, due to come on stream in seven years. It said the facility will be built at Braqa, 53 kilometres (33 miles) southwest of the Gulf coast town of Ruwais in western Abu Dhabi in a sparsely populated area of desert. The 13-square-kilometre (five-square ... more 
Berlin (AFP) April 24, 2010Tens of thousands of Germans joined hands to form a human chain to protest against nuclear energy Saturday, two days before the 24th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. "The chain is almost complete," a police spokeswoman in the northern German region of Schleswig-Holstein told AFP. She estimated that more than 100,000 people took part in the human chain wh ... more |
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Finnish government says it wants two new nuclear plantsHelsinki (AFP) April 21, 2010 Finland's government said Wednesday it wants to build two new nuclear power reactors to cut greenhouse gas emissions and make the Nordic country self-sufficient in electricity production. "We will support the building of two nuclear power plants," Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen told reporters after a cabinet session. Three utility groups - Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), Fennovoima and Fortum - each applied for a permit to build a new reactor, and Vanhanen said TVO and Fennovoima would be given the ... read more |
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