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Vietnam forges ahead with nuclear powerHanoi, Vietnam (UPI) Mar 8, 2012 Vietnam is pressing ahead with nuclear power, a government official said. Addressing an international conference on nuclear power Thursday in Vietnam, Le Dinh Tien, deputy minister of the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, maintained that nuclear power is an important power source worldwide, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reports. His stance comes days before the first anniversary of Japan's earthquake and tsunami that crippled the country's Fukushima nuclear power plan ... read more |
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 No meltdown for nuclear after Fukushima Last year's Fukushima disaster plunged the nuclear industry into its deepest crisis since Chernobyl, but dire predictions that atomic power would have to be abandoned have proved wide of the mark. ... more | .. |
  Fukushima refugees still in limbo one year on A year after being forced to abandon homes and businesses in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear plant, tens of thousands of refugees are still in limbo, unable to return and having to battle for compensation. ... more | .. |
 RWE earnings hit by German nuclear phase-out RWE, Germany's second biggest-power supplier, said Tuesday earnings last year were hit by a one-billion-euro ($1.3-billion) charge related to the shutdown of some of its nuclear power plants. ... 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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 Canada enters nuclear talks with UAE Canada began talks Monday with the United Arab Emirates on nuclear cooperation, hoping to sell the wealthy Gulf state nuclear reactors or technologies for power generation and other civilian purposes. ... more | .. |
 New Mapping Tool Shows How Severe Nuclear Accident Could Look in US A new mapping tool released by the Natural Resources Defense Council illustrates the potential radiological impacts of a severe accident at the nation's nuclear reactors and flags risk factors assoc ... more | .. |
Seoul nuclear summit to focus on safety after Fukushima South Korea's foreign minister said Monday that the question of how to strengthen global atomic safety following Japan's nuclear disaster would be a key topic at an upcoming summit in Seoul. ... more | .. |
 One year after Fukushima, IAEA says nuclear power safer Nuclear power is safer around the world than it was a year ago at the time of the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the head of the UN atomic agency said Monday, while warning against complacency. ... more |
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Philippines quake kills dozens as injured overwhelm hospitals
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 Shareholders sue TEPCO for $67 bn: reports Forty-two shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) are suing the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant seeking a record-breaking $67 billion compensation, news reports said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima disaster pushes France's Areva to record loss French nuclear energy giant Areva reported Thursday a record loss for 2011 after taking massive provisions in the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima disaster but reaffirmed its forecasts to 2016. ... more | .. |
 Radiation fears haunt Japanese food shoppers For Japanese shoppers, food safety was taken for granted until the Fukushima crisis. Now many have lost faith in government guarantees and fear that radiation could have contaminated their diet. ... more | .. |
 Fears for safety at Fukushima one year on To some of the men who earn as little as $100 a day to work inside Japan's Fukushima Daiichi, the plant at the centre of a year-old nuclear disaster is far from safe - despite the official line. ... more |
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  US nuclear oversight too lax: science group A study of safety lapses at nuclear power facilities in the United States found that owners of atomic plants too often either close an eye to problems or fail to adequately address them, a watchdog group said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Japan's nuclear disaster: a timeline As Japan readies to mark the first anniversary of the quake-tsunami that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, here are key developments in the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986. ... more | .. |
 NGOs in anti-nuke probe 'diverted' foreign funds: India India said Wednesday criminal cases were lodged against four non-profit groups accused of fuelling protests against planned atomic power stations because they "diverted" overseas donations. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima contamination 'chronic and lasting': French agency Radioactive contamination levels from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have fallen sharply since the accident but will be "chronic and lasting" for many years, a French watchdog said Tuesday. ... more |
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Venus' Cloud Aerosols Contain Reservoirs of Water and Iron
Technique Could Reveal Hidden Habitats on Moon and Mars
Arianespace partners with BULL to advance space debris prevention measures on Ariane 6 | .. |
 Japan feared Fukushima could 'finish' Tokyo: panel A worst-case scenario sketched out by the Japanese government foresaw the end of Tokyo in a chain of nuclear explosions that would mean evacuating the city, an independent panel said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 India slap cases on aid groups over nuclear row: reports Indian authorities said on Tuesday that charges have been slapped on four non-profit groups accused of fuelling protests against plans to build two atomic power stations, reports said. ... more | .. |
 Japan fears permanent ban on habitation near nuclear plant Japan on Friday said some areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant that was wrecked last year by a massive tsunami will likely remain permanently off-limits. ... more | .. |
Study Confirms Low Levels of Fallout from Fukushima and Enhances Knowledge Fallout from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power facility in Japan was measured in minimal amounts in precipitation in the United States in about 20 percent of 167 sites sampled in a nationwid ... more |
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 India freezes aid group funds over nuclear protests India said Saturday it had frozen the assets of three non-profit groups it alleges were diverting foreign aid funds to fuel protests against plans to build two atomic power stations. ... more | .. |
 India PM blames foreign NGOs for anti-nuclear demos Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blamed US non-profit groups in an interview published Friday for whipping up anti-nuclear demonstrations that have stalled two new atomic plants. ... more | .. |
Japan wants to replace TEPCO board: report Japan's government wants to replace the entire board of the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in exchange for $12 billion of tax money to resuscitate the firm, a report said Saturday. ... more | .. |
New countries go nuclear despite Fukushima: UN official At least five countries will start work on their first nuclear reactors this year despite the jolt to international confidence caused by the Fukushima disaster, a top UN nuclear official said Friday. ... more |
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India PM blames foreign NGOs for anti-nuclear demos Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blamed US non-profit groups in an interview published Friday for whipping up anti-nuclear demonstrations that have stalled two new atomic plants. ... more | .. |
 France, China can learn from Fukushima: French minister French Industry Minister Eric Besson said China and France could learn from Japan's nuclear disaster, during a Beijing visit Thursday to discuss joint development of a medium capacity reactor. ... more | .. |
 Swiss environmental groups want Beznau nuclear plant shut Switzerland's Beznau nuclear plant will soon boast the "dubious record" of being the oldest nuclear plant in the world and should be shut down, a group of environmental organisations said Thursday. ... more | .. |
India to push ahead with nuclear power India needs nuclear energy to sustain its economic growth, a government official said. ... more |
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 Next Gen Nuclear Plant Industry Alliance Selects AREVA Concept AREVA welcomes the announcement by the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Industry Alliance LLC that AREVA's prismatic core, 625 MW thermal, steam cycle modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor ... more | .. |
 Kuwait abandons nuclear power option Kuwait has decided to abandon civilian nuclear power production. ... more | .. |
TEPCO to cement Fukushima seabed to stem radiation The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear plant is to cover a large swathe of seabed near the battered reactors with cement in a bid to halt the spread of radiation, the company said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Into the no-man's land of Fukushima Every two minutes on the bus ride through the ghost towns surrounding Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a company guide in a white protective suit holds up a display showing the radiation level. And it is rising. ... more |
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