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Screwdriver blamed for nuclear plant shutdownSeoul (AFP) Feb 17, 2011 Operators of a South Korean nuclear power plant said Thursday that a stray screwdriver was most likely to blame after a reactor had to be shut down for three days. The reactor in Yeonggwang, about 260 kilometres (160 miles) south of Seoul, stopped working on February 4. It was restarted after engineers carried out repairs to the cooling pump, a company spokesman told AFP. "A 30-centimetre-long screwdriver was found in the cooling pump's motor, and we believe this might have caused the trouble," ... read more |
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 Water Jet Cuts Access Point In Nuclear Waste Storage Tank To Help Manhattan Project Cleanup Water jet contractor AK Services made history recently by cutting the largest-ever access hole in an active U.S. Department of Energy radioactive waste storage tank at the DOE's Hanford Site in sout ... more | .. |
 Hundreds detained in nuclear shipment protest German police Wednesday said they detained hundreds of anti-nuclear protestors who tried to block the departure of a cross-country shipment of nuclear waste. ... more | .. |
 Russia to help Belarus build nuclear power plant Russia said Thursday that it will extend Belarus a loan that will help the former Soviet republic build its first nuclear power plant since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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Vattenfall may not restart German reactor Swedish utility Vattenfall might not restart its error-prone reactor in Brunsbuettel, near Hamburg, because modernizing it might prove too costly, Vattenfall Chief Executive Officer Oystein Loseth said. ... more | .. |
IAEA hosts nuclear energy workshop The International Atomic Energy Agency is this week hosting a meeting for countries considering developing their own nuclear power programmes as a way of helping mitigate the impact of climate change. ... more | .. |
 Russia may quit Bulgaria nuclear plant: report Russia is considering pulling out of a project to build a 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bulgaria due to persistent delays, Russian daily Kommersant reported Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Europe launches trillion-euro energy revamp European leaders launched Friday a trillion-euro bid to slash dependency on Middle East oil and Russian gas, clearing the way to place nuclear power at the centre of 21st century needs. ... more |
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  As ties warm, US mounts India business push US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke heads next week to India on a mission to turn warming political ties into business - especially, he hopes, in the lucrative area of fighter jets. ... more | .. |
 Sweden kicks off large-scale nuclear accident exercise Swedish authorities on Wednesday kicked off the country's largest-ever crisis management exercise on what to do in the event of an accident at one of its nuclear plants. ... more | .. |
Animals at nuclear sites trapped, tested Scientists testing for radiation at a South Carolina site where materials were refined for U.S. nuclear weapons say they're looking at the area's animals. ... more | .. |
  Toshiba returns to black for December quarter Japan's Toshiba said Monday it swung back to a net profit for the December quarter from a year ago on strong demand for its memory chips used in smartphones and tablet computers. ... more |
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  Iran nuclear plant will be 'ready in April' Iran's first nuclear power plant will be ready to generate electricity on April 9, atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Friday, in signs of yet another delay. ... more | .. |
  Cheap solar energy set to displace n-power New research has established that sophisticated new solar energy production methods make it far and away the cheapest and least hazardous energy source, certainly cheaper and safer than nuclear power. ... more | .. |
China to boost nuclear power China is likely to boost its 2020 target nuclear power capacity by 5 percent - 86 gigawatts - representing an annual investment of at least $10.6 billion, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Russia calls for NATO probe into Iran cyber strike Russia called on NATO on Wednesday to launch an investigation into the computer worm that targeted a Russian-built Iranian nuclear power plant, saying the incident could have triggered a new Chernobyl. ... more |
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SpaceX plans 11th test of Starship later this month from South Texas
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 Poland eyes EUR25 bln investments as it goes nuclear Poland hopes to attract 25.8 billion euros (35 billion dollars) in investment in a new nuclear energy sector over the next 20 years, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
Nuclear cleanup plant questioned A costly U.S. environmental project, meant to deal with millions of gallons of nuclear waste, is over budget and faces technical and safety issues, critics say. ... more | .. |
 Turkey sees political strings to France nuclear plant deal Possible talks with France over the construction of a nuclear power plant in Turkey will include political considerations, Turkey's energy minister said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Areva to begin US trial of cancer-fighting isotope A subsidiary of the French nuclear giant Areva said Monday it had received US clearance to begin a clinical trial of an isotope that targets cancer cells. ... more |
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 Court halts transfer of stake in Dutch nuclear plant The Dutch Supreme Court placed an interim freeze Friday on plans to transfer a 50 percent stake in the Netherlands' sole nuclear power station, fully state-owned, to German energy company RWE. ... more | .. |
  Oil giant Saudi Arabia looks to alternative energy With vast oil reserves that are far from exhausted, Saudi Arabia, facing rising domestic energy demand that could cut into its oil exports, has decided to explore nuclear and renewable energy, Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Cyber-attack did not affect Iran nuclear programme: official A cyber-attack that targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges producing enriched uranium in November did not affect the country's nuclear programme, an Iranian official said in Moscow on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Top Iran nuke envoy blames US for cyberattack Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili blamed the United States for a cyberattack on what he insisted is a nuclear energy - not weapons - program, in an interview broadcast Monday. ... more |
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 Russia-US nuclear deal in force: officials A long-awaited nuclear cooperation agreement between Moscow and Washington allowing US companies to sell nuclear reactors and materials to Russia entered into force on Tuesday, officials said. ... more | .. |
Top US lawmaker targets civil nuclear pacts A top US lawmaker condemned a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia as "potentially dangerous" Thursday and vowed to introduce legislation to require congressional approval of such pacts. ... more | .. |
Italy court opens way for nuclear power referendum Italy can hold a referendum on the planned re-introduction of nuclear power after a ban introduced by a 1987 vote following the Chernobyl disaster, the Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday. ... more | .. |
School boycott over Indian nuclear station: report Pupils from 70 schools in the Indian state of Maharashtra have boycotted classes after teachers tried to persuade them to support plans for a local nuclear power station, reports said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Medvedev ratifies nuclear energy pact with Japan The Russian president on Saturday ratified a civil nuclear energy pact with Japan that allows the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the sale of more Russian uranium to energy-poor Japan. President Dmitry Medvedev ratified the pact after it was passed by the lower and upper houses of the Russian parliament in December last year, the Kremlin said in a statement on its website. ... more | .. |
Japan, Iraq talk nuclear energy: minister Japan's trade minister has expressed interest in cooperating with Iraq on nuclear energy, the Iraqi interim electricity minister said on Monday after talks in Baghdad. ... more | .. |
Taiwan's new nuclear plant delayed, operator says The opening of a controversial new nuclear power plant in Taiwan that has already far exceeded its budget has been put back for months at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, its operator said Friday. ... more | .. |
Turkey in talks with France on nuclear plant: report Turkey is in preliminary talks with France for the construction of a nuclear power plant but Japan has the priority, Anatolia news agency quoted Turkey's energy minister as saying on Friday. ... more |
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