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Small fire stops Swedish nuclear reactorStockholm (AFP) Oct 23, 2011 A small fire in a turbine hall shut down a Swedish nuclear reactor overnight but the blaze was swiftly extinguished, nuclear power plant officials said Sunday. "A fire alarm went off around midnight and our own firefighters were able to locate the fire in the turbine hall and quickly extinguish it," Anders Oesterberg, a spokesman at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant, told AFP. The cause of the fire was not immediately known, but an oil leak in the turbine was seen as a possible cause, Oesterber ... read more |
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 TEPCO to raise $262 mln for nuclear payouts: report Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, plans to sell part of its stake in a wind power utility to raise funds for compensation payouts, a report said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Russia's Rosatom better on transparency: watchdog Transparency at Russia's state nuclear energy concern Rosatom has improved over the past year, but much remains to be done at the behemoth, Transparency International said on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Greenpeace criticises Japan radiation screening Greenpeace called on Tokyo to toughen radiation screening and food labelling rules on Thursday after it said low levels of radiation had been detected in seafood sold at Japanese stores. ... 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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 China, Taiwan sign nuclear safety pact China and Taiwan on Thursday signed an agreement to cooperate on the safety of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's atomic crisis this year. ... more | .. |
Pakistan repairs nuclear power plant leak Pakistani officials were forced Thursday to repair a leak in its oldest nuclear power plant, lying on the outskirts of its economic hub Karachi on the Arabian Sea coast, an official said. ... more | .. |
  Fukushima city begins decontamination of homes Fukushima City began Tuesday its first decontamination of private properties, seven months after the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl spread radioactive materials over eastern Japan. ... more | .. |
TEPCO asks for $9 bln in Fukushima aid: reports Tokyo Electric Power Company will ask for at least 700 billion yen ($9.1 billion) in a first tranche of state aid to help cover compensation for the Fukushima nuclear disaster, reports said Tuesday. ... more |
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Sanctions, flaws hobble Iran nuclear program: study Iran's nuclear program has been hampered by machine design flaws, equipment breakdowns and problems getting parts because of international sanctions, a US think-tank report said. ... more | .. |
 Radioactive emissions from Fukushima plant fall: TEPCO Emissions of radioactive materials from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have been cut by half over the past month, its operator said Monday. ... more | .. |
UN atomic team urges efficiency in Japan decontamination Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency urged Japan Friday to ensure decontamination efforts in the wake of the Fukushima crisis stay focused on reducing radiation doses to the public. ... more | .. |
UN atomic agency team to conclude Japan mission Experts from the UN atomic agency IAEA will unveil their preliminary findings Friday as they conclude a one-week mission to assist Japan with clean-up efforts after the Fukushima nuclear accident. ... more |
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Old radium bottles blamed for Tokyo radiation A Tokyo radiation hotspot was not linked to the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Japanese authorities concluded Friday after finding old containers of radium powder likely used for luminous paint. ... more | .. |
Radiation hotspot detected in Tokyo A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo, officials said Thursday, but authorities said it may not be linked to the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. ... more | .. |
World needs joined-up nuclear safety approach: report The global upsurge in the use of nuclear power in countries such as China, Russia and Britain must be accompanied by a greater focus on security and the management of nuclear waste, a report said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Cold War's nuclear wastes pose challenges to science, engineering, society Seven papers published in the current issue of Technology and Innovation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors report on efforts by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to ensure continue ... more |
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 Areva's Finnish EPR reactor delayed again A third generation EPR nuclear reactor being built in Finland by French-German consortium Areva-Siemens will likely be delayed once again, to 2014 from 2013, Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Taiwan, China to sign nuclear safety pact Taiwan and China have agreed to cooperate more closely on nuclear power safety and disaster preparedness in the wake of Japan's atomic crisis this year, Taipei authorities said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Second Dutch nuclear rail shipment heads to France A train carrying nuclear waste on Tuesday left the Netherlands bound for a recycling plant in France, the second such shipment that has sparked ire and protests of anti-nuclear activists. ... more | .. |
Green light for nuclear expansion in Britain: minister Britain will press on with plans to expand its network of nuclear power stations, a minister said Tuesday, after a report on the Fukushima disaster found no grounds to restrict the use of reactors here. ... more |
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Green, Aboriginal groups lash BHP mega-mine Eco-activists and Aboriginal groups Tuesday condemned Australia's approval of a mammoth BHP Billiton mining pit expansion, warning of an environmental and public health disaster if it goes ahead. ... more | .. |
China to lead in new nuclear reactors? While most of the world takes a step back from nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in northern Japan, China is continuing on a path of nuclear power expansion. ... more | .. |
 Japan starts thyroid tests for Fukushima children Japan's Fukushima prefecture on Sunday began health check-ups of 360,000 children amid worries that radiation from a crippled nuclear plant had exposed them to the risk of thyroid abnormalities. ... more | .. |
 Australia approves BHP's Olympic Dam expansion Australia on Monday approved BHP Billiton's multi-billion dollar plans to expand its copper and uranium operations at Olympic Dam, but said it must comply with more than 100 strict conditions. ... more |
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Australian mine expansion gains approval Australia has granted environmental approval for the massive expansion of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine. ... more | .. |
Japan's Ongoing Nuclear Disaster: Radiation Still Leaking, Recovery Still Years Away Richard Wilcox lives in Japan and studies environmental issues, and has published articles on Fukushima in Counterpunch, Dissident Voice and Global Research. "If nuclear power is so 'safe,' why is i ... more | .. |
 Protests thwart India's nuclear plans An increase in anti-nuclear sentiment after the Fukushima disaster in Japan in March has stalled India's ambitious plan for nuclear expansion, officials said. ... more | .. |
Nuclear contamination found beyond Japan no-go zone High levels of radioactive contamination have been found in soil in the capital of Japan's Fukushima prefecture, a study showed Wednesday, prompting calls to make the area a voluntary evacuation zone. ... more |
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Japan nuclear plant worker dies A worker at Japan's disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant died Thursday, its operator said, adding that the death was not necessarily related to radioactive leaks. ... more | .. |
 Bulgaria files counter claim against Atomstroyexport Bulgaria has filed an international arbitration court claim against Russian nuclear company Atomstroyexport over delayed payments, Economy Minister Traicho Traikov said Thursday. ... more | .. |
New nuclear power plant site in western Finland: company Finnish power company Fennovoima announced Wednesday it would build the country's third nuclear power plant in the western town of Pyhaejoki. ... more | .. |
Ukraine begins construction of new nuclear waste storage Ukraine launched construction of a new facility Wednesday to stockpile industrial nuclear waste in the contaminated zone around its Chernobyl plant, site of the worst nuclear accident of the last 25 years. ... more |
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