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Japan probes radioactive apartment blockTokyo (AFP) Jan 16, 2012 Japan's government was Monday investigating how an apartment had been built with radioactive concrete in the latest scare from the country's ongoing nuclear crisis. Radiation levels of up to 1.24 microsieverts per hour were recorded in the building in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, 55 kilometres (35 miles) from the crippled power plant, local authorities said Sunday. Local media reported that 12 families were living in the block. The three-storey condominium was constructed in July with concrete mad ... read more |
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 Thousands protest against nuclear power in Japan About 2,000 demonstrators hit the streets of Yokohama on Saturday calling for an end to nuclear energy in Japan after the March 11 disaster that sparked the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. ... more | .. |
  Energy-hungry Japan in $34 bln Australia gas deal Japanese energy firm Inpex and French giant Total on Friday announced a huge $34 billion gas project in Australia, as Tokyo looks for alternatives to nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. ... more | .. |
 Quake hits eastern Japan; nuclear plant stable A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Japan on Thursday near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, but did not cause any further problems at the power station, officials said. ... 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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 Rio Tinto completes takeover of uranium miner Hathor Global miner Rio Tinto on Thursday completed its acquisition of Canadian uranium junior Hathor Exploration as the company bets on the sector recovering from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. ... more | .. |
  The nuclear, biological and climate threat - 2011 reviewed In this special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, experts reflect on 2011 and highlight what to look out for in 2012 in the areas of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, ... more | .. |
Namibia green lights Chinese uranium buy-in Namibia's competition commission said Wednesday it had cleared a Chinese nuclear company to take over an Australian mining firm with rights to the world's fourth-largest uranium deposit. ... more | .. |
Nuclear power a key issue for Taiwan polls The fate of Taiwan's controversial $9.3 billion nuclear power plant will be a key issue in the country's upcoming presidential elections. ... more |
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 New material for thermonuclear fusion reactors Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Oxford University (United Kingdom) and the University of Michigan (USA) have joined efforts to develop new materials for thermonuclear fusion r ... more | .. |
 Australia ranked first, N.Korea last on nuclear safety Australia has the tightest security controls among nations with nuclear material while North Korea poses the world's greatest risks, a new index by experts said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  German jobs boom in renewable energy questioned Optimistic predictions that Germany's decision to turn its back on nuclear energy will lead to the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the renewable energy sector have met with scepticism. ... more | .. |
 Iran must prove nuclear drive peaceful: UN chief UN leader Ban Ki-moon called Friday for "peaceful" efforts to ease tensions between Iran and Western nations but stressed that Iran must prove its nuclear program is not aimed at producing weapons. ... more |
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 Bulgarian nuclear plant gets clean bill of health: regulator Bulgaria's nuclear safety regulator gave a clean bill of health to the country's sole nuclear power plant at Kozloduy Thursday, following post-Fukushima stress tests commissioned by the EU. ... more | .. |
 Japan's nuclear safety panel received donations: report Almost a third of commissioners and examiners at Japan's nuclear safety commission received donations from the country's nuclear power industry, the Asahi Shimbun reported Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Nuclear watchdog urges French plants to boost safety A French watchdog on Tuesday called for the country's nuclear plants to beef up safety following the Fukushima disaster under a programme it estimated would cost tens of billions of euros (dollars). ... more | .. |
 Greenpeace files complaint against French nuclear group Greenpeace on Tuesday said it had filed a criminal complaint against French nuclear giant Areva which it suspects of having spied on the environmental group. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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