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Nuclear watchdog urges French plants to boost safetyParis (AFP) Jan 3, 2012 A French nuclear watchdog on Tuesday called for the country's plants to beef up safety to cope with natural disasters under a programme likely to cost "tens of billions of euros", but said none faced any immediate shutdown. It also called for a "rapid reaction force" to be operational by the end of 2014 that could intervene in a nuclear accident in less than 24 hours. The recommendations, handed to Prime Minister Francois Fillon, were drafted by the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) as part of a po ... read more |
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 Iran tests first domestically made nuclear fuel rod Iran said on Sunday that its scientists have "tested the first nuclear fuel rod produced from uranium ore deposits inside the country," the website of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation said. ... more | .. |
 Finnish nuclear plants get clean bill of health Finland's nuclear safety regulator Friday gave the country's four nuclear reactors a clean bill of health after stress tests commissioned by the European Council. ... more | .. |
 Spanish village celebrates nuclear waste depot Residents of a small Spanish village celebrated news Friday that their district will host a nuclear waste depot, a source of jobs in tough economic times. ... 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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  New Year despair for Japan's nuclear refugees As most of Japan prepares to ring in the New Year at the end of a traumatic 2011, refugees from the country's nuclear crisis relocated far from home say they have nothing to celebrate. ... more | .. |
 Japan's tsunami refugees brace for harsh winter As the mercury plunges in Japan's disaster-hit northeast, thousands of people in temporary homes are digging in for what could be a long, hard and very cold winter. ... more | .. |
 Higher Costs And More Headaches Ahead For Nuclear Power In 2012 With the Fukushima disaster, earthquake-related reactor shutdowns, further reactor project cost escalation, infighting at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and cheap natural gas, 2011 was a y ... more | .. |
 South Korea firm on nuclear power growth South Korea has reiterated its commitment to increase its share of nuclear power. ... more |
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 Japan atomic regulators, TEPCO 'unprepared': panel The operators of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant and government regulators were woefully unprepared for disaster, the first official probe into the March 11 catastrophe said Monday. ... more | .. |
 TEPCO asked to consider temporary state control Japan's government on Tuesday floated the idea of putting the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant under temporary state control, as it asked for $8.9 billion more in compensation aid. ... more | .. |
 NRC Grants Design Certification To Westinghouse AP1000 Westinghouse Electric reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the Design Certification Amendment to its AP1000 pressurized water reactor design. The granting of such certifi ... more | .. |
 Fukushima report faults TEPCO, government A report on Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster chided both the Japanese central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the nuclear plant. ... more |
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TEPCO seeks fresh $8.5 billion from Japan fund Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Tuesday asked for an extra $8.5 billion in aid from a government-backed fund to help it compensate families affected by the Fukushima nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
 Areva in talks with state fund on selling Eramet stake French nuclear energy giant Areva said Tuesday it was in exclusive talks with the state investment fund FSI on selling its stake in the Eramet mining company worth more than 600 million euros. ... more | .. |
  New Take on Impacts of Low Dose Radiation Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), through a combination of time-lapse live imaging and mathematical modeling of a special l ... more | .. |
Westinghouse nuclear reactor gets go-ahead The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Westinghouse's AP1000 nuclear reactor design, clearing the way for construction of the first U.S. reactors in three decades. ... more |
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 Lithuania, Hitachi sign initial nuclear plant deal Lithuania and Japan's Hitachi on Friday signed a preliminary deal on the building of a new nuclear energy facility to replace a plant closed in 2009 in the Baltic state under an EU agreement. ... more | .. |
 Former spymaster's firm seeks uranium in Israeli desert An Israeli energy firm run by a former head of the Mossad spy agency is to start prospecting for uranium in the southern Negev desert, the company said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
US approves new nuclear plant design The US approved a new nuclear plant design Thursday, paving the way for the country's first new nuclear power facilities since 1996 to be built. ... more | .. |
 Areva's Finnish EPR reactor delayed until August 2014 The start-up of Finland's fifth nuclear reactor, being built by the French-German consortium Areva-Siemens, has been delayed until August 2014, Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said Thursday. ... more |
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 Fukushima reactors may take 40 years to dismantle Japan said Wednesday that decommissioning the tsunami-wrecked reactors at Fukushima could take as long as 40 years, with melted nuclear fuel possibly stuck where it is for a quarter of a century. ... more | .. |
 Romania restarts nuclear reactor after technical problem A Romanian nuclear reactor closed down on Monday because of a technical problem was restarted on Wednesday, the national operator Nuclearelectrica said. ... more | .. |
Small fire at Japan nuclear lab; no radiation leak A building housing an experimental nuclear reactor in Japan caught fire Tuesday, but there was no leak of radioactive materials, officials said, amid nervousness over Japan's atomic industry. ... more | .. |
 Namibia uranium production falls 27.5% in 2011: reserve bank The uranium output of Namibia, the world's fourth producer, fell 27.5 percent this year due to high rainfall, low prices and industrial actions, the country's reserve bank said Tuesday. ... more |
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Key steps to Fukushima plant 'cold shutdown' Japan's announcement that crippled reactors at its Fukushima nuclear plant have been brought to a state of cold shutdown marks the second step in the government's recovery plan and is the culmination of nine months of sometimes chaotic efforts to bring the reactors under control. ... more | .. |
 Westinghouse and KEPCO Nuclear Fuel Joint Venture 2011-KWN, a company jointly owned by Westinghouse Electric Company and KEPCO Nuclear Fuel, has begun production of control element assemblies (CEAs) for Combustion Engineering- designed nuclear plan ... more | .. |
Romanian nuclear reactor stopped due to technical problem A Romanian nuclear reactor was stopped on Monday because of a technical problem but all security systems are functioning properly, the national operator Nuclearelectrica said. ... more | .. |
Japan nuclear efforts only 'first aid': press Japanese newspapers Saturday dismissed Tokyo's declaration of a "cold shutdown" at the Fukushima nuclear plant as meaning only "first aid" had been completed, saying a long recovery still lay ahead. ... more |
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 Japan set to declare Fukushima plant shutdown Japan on Friday looked set to announce it had finally tamed leaking atomic reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power station, nine months after one of the world's worst nuclear crises began. ... more | .. |
 Small reactors could figure into US energy future A newly released study from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) concludes that small modular reactors may hold the key to the future of U.S. nuclear power generation. ... more | .. |
 Mob involved in Fukushima clean-up: Japan reporter A Japanese journalist who worked at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant this summer claimed Thursday that Japan's yakuza crime syndicates were involved in supplying clean-up crews. ... more | .. |
 Scientists Assess Radioactivity in the Ocean from Japan Nuclear Power Facility With current news of additional radioactive leaks from the Fukushima nuclear power plants, the impact on the ocean of releases of radioactivity from the plants remains unclear. But a new study by U. ... more |
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