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October 31, 2012
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Hurricane forces three US reactors shut
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2012
Three US nuclear power reactors remained shut down and a fourth on alert Tuesday after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc with transmission networks and high waters threatened cooling systems. Amid worries that waters could overwhelm the reactors as happened in Japan's Fukushima nuclear emergency last year, authorities said there were no risks to the public. New Jersey's main power company PSEG Nuclear shut down its Salem 1 unit at Hancocks Bridge on the Delaware river, saying most of its water circu ... read more

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Chile thinking again of nuclear power use
Chile is thinking again of meeting its future energy needs with nuclear power, after more than a year of hesitation and delays caused by the March 2011 Fukushima atomic reactor disaster in Japan. ... more
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China's Guangdong mulls investing in Romanian nuclear plant
China's Guangdong Nuclear Power Group has shown interest in building two new reactors at Romania's sole nuclear power plant, deputy economy minister Rodin Traicu said Tuesday. ... more
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Japan's Hitachi to buy British nuclear firm Horizon
Japan's Hitachi said Tuesday it would buy British atomic power venture Horizon to expand its nuclear business overseas, as Japanese remain wary about atomic power after the Fukushima disaster. ... more
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Slovenian nuclear plant resumes output after preventive shut down
Slovenia's only nuclear power plant resumed energy production on Tuesday after a preventive shut down as the Sava river - which is used to cool down the plant - was clogged up by leaves and rubbish. ... more
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Alert as Sandy drenches US nuclear plant
A nuclear power plant in New Jersey declared an alert Monday from mega-storm Sandy as water passed a minimum level but no safety concerns were reported, the US nuclear regulator said. ... more
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Czechs, Slovaks join forces in defence of EU nuclear power
The Czech Republic and Slovakia vowed on Monday to join forces on backing nuclear power within the EU when they held their first joint government meeting since the former Czechoslovakia split peacefully 20 years ago. ... more
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Czechs reject French Areva appeal of nixed bid on nuke plant
Czech state-run power group CEZ said Monday it had rejected an appeal by France's Areva against its elimination from a tender to build two new units at its Temelin nuclear plant in the southern Czech Republic. ... more
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Japan's Hitachi to buy Horizon for $628 mln: reports
Japanese engineering giant Hitachi is set to buy Horizon, a joint venture planning to build nuclear reactors in Britain, in a deal valued at 50 billion yen ($628 million), reports said Saturday. ... more
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IAEA team tours India nuclear plant after radiation leak
A team from the UN's nuclear watchdog began a safety inspection Monday at a power plant in northern India where dozens of workers were exposed to radiation in separate leaks earlier this year. ... more
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Slovenia shuts nuclear plant after Sava river swells
Slovenia preventively shut down production Sunday at its only nuclear power plant after a steep increase in the flow of the Sava river used for cooling the system, the Krsko nuclear plant said in a statement. ... more
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Fukushima fish radiation may indicate leak: study
Higher-than-normal radiation levels found in fish caught off Japan's east coast more than a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster could indicate the plant is still leaking, new research says. ... more
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Poland must choose between nuclear and shale gas future: utility exec
Poland must choose between developing its first nuclear energy plant or pushing ahead with a programme to tap potential shale gas reserves, the head of Polish state-owned utility PGE said on Wednesday. ... more
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Westinghouse SELECTS McAfee SIEM and IPS as core security components to address THREATS TO control systems
Westinghouse Electric Company and McAfee has announced that the two companies have entered into a worldwide agreement in which Westinghouse will provide McAfee Enterprise Security Manager and Networ ... more
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Poland still committed to nuclear, shale gas development: PM
Poland is firmly committed to developing both nuclear energy and shale gas exploration, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday. ... more
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China to resume nuclear power construction
China has lifted a moratorium on the construction of new nuclear projects, imposed 19 months ago after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster. ... more
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Bulgaria nuclear reactor back online
Bulgaria's only nuclear power plant was fully operational again Wednesday after technical problems at one of its two reactors were resolved, the operator said. ... more
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Bulgaria to hold referendum on new nuclear power plant
Bulgaria will hold a referendum on the construction of a second nuclear power plant, parliament decided on Wednesday, eight months after the government scrapped a deal with a Russian firm to build one. ... more
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Nuclear phase-out possible for Japan?
A former chief of the International Energy Agency said he was doubtful that Japan could follow through on its plan to phase out nuclear power by 2040. ... more
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Japan's radiation monitoring unreliable: Greenpeace
Government radiation monitoring in areas near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is unreliable, Greenpeace charged on Tuesday, with heavily populated areas exposed to 13 times the legal limit. ... more
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AREVA to equip all Pressurized Water Reactors with Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners
AREVA will equip all of the Japanese Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) fleet with more than a hundred of its Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners (PARs). PARs are state-of-the-art passive safety de ... more
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Jordan ends uranium deal with France nuclear giant
Jordan said on Tuesday it had terminated a uranium mining licence for a joint venture between Areva and a local firm, but the French nuclear giant insisted the agreement was only covering exploration. ... more
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International consortium to bid for Magnox-RSRL Parent Body Organisations
Three of the world's leading nuclear companies, CH2M HILL, AREVA and Serco, joined forces in a newly-formed consortium - CAS Restoration Partnership - and announced their intent to participate in th ... more
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Queensland to restart uranium mining
The Australian state of Queensland has lifted a decades-old ban on uranium mining. ... more
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Bulgaria shuts nuclear reactor after generator problem
Bulgaria shut down one of two reactors at its only nuclear power plant on Tuesday after a generator control problem, the operator said, adding that there was no radiation leak. ... more
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Westinghouse Announces Master Research Agreement With University Of Missouri
Westinghouse Electric Company is pleased to announce the signing of a multiyear master research and collaboration agreement with the University of Missouri-Columbia and Missouri University of Scienc ... more
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Australia's Queensland lifts uranium mining ban
Australia's mineral-rich Queensland state reversed a decades-long ban on uranium mining Monday, citing rekindled interest in the nuclear fuel after Canberra gave the go-ahead to exports to India. ... more
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AREVA awarded new contract to supply LEU fuel elements to Research Reactor MARIA
At the occasion of the RERTR 2012 International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy in Warsaw on October 14 to 17, AREVA CERCA, a 10 ... more
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Tiny travelers from deep space could assist in healing Fukushima's nuclear scar
Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a method to use cosmic rays to gather detailed information from inside the damaged cores of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, which ... more
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TECH SPACE

New radiation treatment significantly increases survival rate
A novel drug that mimics a naturally occurring molecule found in coffee and blueberries has been developed to treat radiation exposure. Charles R. Yates, Pharm.D., Ph.D., and colleagues Duane Miller ... more
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Fukushima panel chief hopes for change in Japan
The head of a hard-hitting panel that blamed cultural factors for the Fukushima nuclear disaster voiced hope Tuesday that the tragedy would help open up Japan's system of government. ... more
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Australia, India take first steps on nuclear deal
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday agreed to open negotiations to export uranium nuclear fuel to energy-hungry India after meeting her counterpart Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. ... more
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