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April 18, 2014

Floating nuclear plants could ride out tsunamis
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 17, 2014
When an earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant complex in 2011, neither the quake nor the inundation caused the ensuing contamination. Rather, it was the aftereffects - specifically, the lack of cooling for the reactor cores, due to a shutdown of all power at the station - that caused most of the harm. A new design for nuclear plants built on floating platforms, modeled after those used for offshore oil drilling, could help avoid such consequences in the future. Such flo ... read more

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Areva says in line to build British nuclear waste plant French nuclear power group Areva said on Tuesday it was part of a consortium retained for a major contract in Britain to handle radioactive metallic waste. ... more		German court orders nuclear fuel rod tax to be reimbursed A court in Hamburg ruled Monday that a nuclear fuel rod tax imposed on Germany's power suppliers must be reimbursed until its compatability with European and domestic law is established. ... more		Westinghouse extends nuclear fuel deal with Ukraine US nuclear power giant Westinghouse Electric, a unit of Japan's Toshiba, said Friday it has extended its contract to supply fuel to Ukraine's nuclear power plants through 2020. ... more
				Japan to keep using nuclear in new energy plan Japan on Friday said nuclear power would remain an important source of energy as the government approved a new Basic Energy Plan, the first policy of its kind since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. ... more		Iran needs 30,000 new centrifuges for fuel: official Iran will need 30,000 of its new generation centrifuges to meet domestic fuel demands, far more than the current number, its nuclear chief said Sunday. ... more

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French prosecutor probes Areva buy of Canadian miner France's financial prosecutor has opened a preliminary probe into state-controlled nuclear giant Areva's controversial 2007 purchase of a Canadian uranium miner, a judicial source said Thursday. ... more		Czech energy firm scraps nuclear plant expansion Czech energy giant CEZ said Thursday it was scrapping the planned construction of two new reactors at its Temelin nuclear plant, citing "turbulent" conditions in the European energy sector. ... more		Climate change causing havoc with global water cycle: UN Schools shut, flights cancelled as Typhoon Ragasa nears Hong Kong Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study		Fukushima worker dies after accident: plant operator A worker at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan died in hospital Friday after being buried in earth and rubble while digging a hole at the site, the facility's operator said. ... more
				Czech Moravian-Silesian Region Fundamental To Temelin AP1000 Westinghouse Electric Company president, Europe, Middle East and Africa Yves Brachet and a high level delegation visited the city of Ostrava, the industrial heartland of the Czech Republic and admin ... more		Fukushima water decontamination system down again The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday it had shut down a key decontamination system used to clean radiation-tainted water, just hours after it came back online. ... more

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Study on element could change ballgame on radioactive waste Groundbreaking work by a team of chemists on a fringe element of the periodic table could change how the world stores radioactive waste and recycles fuel. The element is called californium - C ... more		US, Japan in historic plutonium return deal Japan pledged Monday to return hundreds of kilos of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium given to Tokyo for research during the Cold War era, in the first major deal announced at a summit on nuclear security. ... more		NASA Dragonfly Mission Advances Through Crucial Development and Testing Stages SATNUS completes third NGWS flight campaign with autonomous systems integration SFL Missions to Deliver Spacecraft Buses for HawkEye 360 RF Signal Detection Expansion		In the lab, scientists coax E. coli to resist radiation damage Capitalizing on the ability of an organism to evolve in response to punishment from a hostile environment, scientists have coaxed the model bacterium Escherichia coli to dramatically resist ionizing ... more
				Shale could be long-term home for problematic nuclear waste Shale, the source of the United States' current natural gas boom, could help solve another energy problem: what to do with radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. The unique properties of the s ... more		AREVA and Novinium to Provide Cable Rejuvenation Services to the Nuclear Industry AREVA has signed an exclusive agreement with Novinium to offer the nuclear industry cable rejuvenation technology and the related services. This partnership with Novinium, the global leader in this ... more

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	Greenpeace stages audacious protest at France's oldest nuclear plant Dozens of Greenpeace activists sneaked into France's oldest nuclear power plant Tuesday to highlight alleged security weaknesses at atomic facilities, prompting the government to pledge to reinforce protection of the sensitive sites. ... more		Safety lapses rapped after US nuclear plant fire A fire which sparked the evacuation of a major underground US nuclear waste plant last month was preventable, according to a report out Friday highlighting safety lapses at the site. ... more		UN nuclear watchdog chief says atomic plants never '100%' safe The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Monday his agency would keep working to improve safety after the Fukushima crisis, but no atomic plant could be "100 percent" safe from natural disasters. ... more		Fukushima nuclear workers rally against plant operator Fukushima nuclear plant workers rallied outside the headquarters of operator Tokyo Electric Power on Friday, complaining they were forced to work for meagre pay in dangerous conditions. ... more

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