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Nuclear energy: who's advancing and who's retreatingTokyo (AFP) Sept 14, 2012 After Germany and Switzerland, Japan on Friday became the third country to call time on nuclear energy, a decision motivated by last year's earthquake-induced Fukushima disaster. Following is a checklist of the main countries retreating on nuclear power, and those who intend to push ahead with it. PHASING OUT ATOMIC ENERGY Japan has followed Germany and Switzerland which decided last year to phase out nuclear energy after the Fukushima disaster. Italy, which had plans to relaunch a nuclear p ... read more |
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 Germany ready to help Japan on nuclear exit Germany stands ready to help Japan with the "demanding" goal of phasing out nuclear energy by drawing on its own nuclear exit progress, a government spokesman said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Canada wants Indian nuclear reactor sales Canada is seeking to enter India's lucrative nuclear energy market. ... more | .. |
 Nuclear Proliferation Risks Of Laser Enrichment Require Fuller NRC Review The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is putting U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy at risk if it decides not to require a formal nuclear proliferation assessment as part of the licensing ... 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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 Japan says to phase out nuclear energy by 2040 Japan on Friday said it planned to phase out nuclear power over three decades in an apparent bow to public pressure after last year's Fukushima disaster, the worst atomic accident in a generation. ... more | .. |
 Thorium as uranium replacement studied The benefits of thorium as an alternative nuclear fuel representing a safer and more abundant alternative to uranium are "overstated," a British report says. ... more | .. |
 Signs of cracks found at second Belgian nuclear plant There are signs of cracks in a reactor vessel at a second nuclear plant in Belgium, with the problems similar to those identified at another site, power generator Electrabel said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Japan works on nuclear waste disposal The Science Council of Japan has expressed concerns about the country's nuclear waste disposal policies. ... more |
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 India court rejects plea to block nuclear plant India's Supreme Court denied a request on Thursday to suspend the loading of uranium fuel rods at a contested nuclear plant in southern India, as local residents again gathered to protest. ... more | .. |
Japan to have new nuclear watchdog Japan plans to install a new nuclear regulatory commission. ... more | .. |
Japan to abandon nuclear power by 2030s: report Japan will abandon nuclear power within the next three decades under new government policy on the post-Fukushima energy mix, a newspaper said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Indian nuclear power protest turns deadly An Indian government official blamed foreign organizations, whom he said are seeking to hamper India's nuclear ambitions, for the anti-nuclear power protests in southern India that resulted in the death of one person. ... more |
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Jordan king says Israel disrupted nuclear plans King Abdullah II on Wednesday accused Israel of disrupting Jordan's nuclear energy plans and warned of sectarian violence spilling across the border from Syria, in a wide-ranging interview with AFP. ... more | .. |
  Haunting 'Land of Hope' part shot on location in Fukushima Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono pulled audiences this week into a family's suffering in the wake of a nuclear meltdown, showing haunting real scenes of Fukushima in his fictional drama "The Land of Hope." ... more | .. |
Russia claims 1.0 bn euros over Bulgaria nuclear deal Russia has raised to one billion euros ($1.3 billion) its compensation claim against Bulgaria over Sofia's decision to drop a deal for a Russian firm to build a new nuclear power plant. ... more | .. |
 France says it will close oldest nuclear plant by 2017 French Ecology and Energy Minister Delphine Batho said Friday the government was still committed to closing the country's oldest operational nuclear plant by 2017. ... more |
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Teledyne Labtech and Bangor University advance Welsh space cooling technology
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 Weekly Japan anti-nuclear rally going strong Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators returned to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's executive mansion in central Tokyo Friday for a weekly rally. ... more | .. |
 Westinghouse Awarded Contract to Provide Feasibility Study for Hybrid Reactor Unit at Kozloduy NPP Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it has received a contract from the Kozloduy NPP - New Build PLC of Bulgaria to perform a feasibility study on a potential seventh unit at the Kozlod ... more | .. |
Polish companies join forces on nuclear power Four top Polish state-controlled firms have inked a letter of intent to build the country's first three gigawatt nuclear energy plant, a joint press release said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Spain's oldest nuclear plant to be mothballed in July 2013 Spain's oldest nuclear plant, known as the 'sister' to Japan's disaster-struck Fukushima plant, is to be closed in July 2013 after 42 years in service, the operator said Thursday. ... more |
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 Two slightly injured in accident at French nuclear plant A steam leak due to an accidental chemical reaction on Wednesday at France's oldest nuclear plant led to two people being slightly burnt and renewed calls to reduce the country's heavy reliance on atomic energy. ... more | .. |
  Iran, pressed on nuclear activities, wraps up summit Iran on Friday closed a summit of non-aligned states after two days of sometimes conflictual speeches over Syria and stepped-up pressure over its nuclear programme that overshadowed the proceedings. ... more | .. |
Post-Fukushima meeting calls for more work on nuclear safety A major international conference reviewing the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan in March 2011 wrapped up Friday calling for more to be done to improve nuclear safety. ... more | .. |
Japanese majority favor zero nuclear power The majority of Japanese say they want to end the country's dependence on nuclear power, a new report says. ... more |
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 Greens see red after French minister hints at nuclear U-turn French Greens reacted angrily on Monday after a government minister described nuclear power as the "energy of the future," casting doubt on a commitment to slash the country's number of reactors. ... more | .. |
 IAEA head says don't relax on nuclear safety The head of the UN atomic agency called Monday on countries with nuclear power not to lose their "sense of urgency" in improving safety after last year's Fukushima disaster in Japan. ... more | .. |
 Hundreds join anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo Hundreds of anti-nuclear demonstrators marched in Tokyo Sunday, calling for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to abandon the country's atomic energy programme following last year's Fukushima accident. ... more | .. |
Japan anti-nuke activists protest in Tokyo More than a thousand people protested outside the Japanese prime minister's residence in Tokyo on Friday calling for an end to nuclear power after last year's Fukushima atomic crisis. ... more |
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 Glass offers improved means of storing UK's nuclear waste ILW makes up more than three quarters of the volume of material destined for geological disposal in the UK. Currently the UK's preferred method is to encapsulate ILW in specially formulated cement. ... more | .. |
 ORNL technology moves scientists closer to extracting uranium from seawater Fueling nuclear reactors with uranium harvested from the ocean could become more feasible because of a material developed by a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ... more | .. |
Report warns of India nuclear power safety An Indian government auditing agency criticized India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board for not being truly autonomous and for its lack of a radiation safety policy. ... more | .. |
 Japan press mixed on PM meet with anti-nuclear camp Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's first face-to-face meeting with anti-nuclear protestors received mixed reviews Thursday, with some media saying it only served to highlight an unbridgeable gap. ... more |
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