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October 28, 2014

Off-grid German village banks on wind, sun, pig manure
Feldheim, Germany (AFP) Oct 26, 2014
If Germany has taken a pioneering though risky role in shifting to renewable energy, then the tiny village of Feldheim - population 150 - is at its vanguard. The hamlet near Berlin is Germany's first to have left the national grid and switched to 100 percent local, alternative energy, swearing off fossil fuels and nuclear power decades before the rest of the country plans to near the same goal. Electricity now comes from a wind park towering over its gently rolling fields and reaches homes thr ... read more

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Wind turbines briefly outpace nuclear power plants in U.K. As the European Union looks to set new emissions reduction targets in Brussels, the United Kingdom is coming off a significant energy production milestone. Thanks to the onslaught of high winds brought by Hurricane Gonzalo, wind turbines outproduced nuclear power plants on Tuesday - supplying 14.2 percent of all electricity to nuclear's 13.2 percent. ... more		Areva names number two Knoche as interim CEO French nuclear giant Areva said Wednesday its chief operating officer Philippe Knoche would take over as interim chief executive after CEO Luc Oursel stepped down for health reasons. ... more		UT Nuclear Engineers Part of Three Grants Totaling $2.6 Million Professors from the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are part of three separate nuclear safety research projects that collectively have been awarded $2.6 million. ... more
				Vattenfall seeks 4.7 bn euros for German nuclear phase-out: government sources Swedish energy group Vattenfall is demanding 4.7 billion euros ($6.0 billion) in damages from Germany following Berlin's decision to phase out nuclear power and shut several reactors, German government sources said on Wednesday. ... more		AREVA introduces SIBAG, the first "serious game" simulator for training nuclear operators AREVA has unveiled SIBAG, an innovative training system, at the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris. The system is designed to foster the development of best habits and reflexes while operating ... more

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Glitzy Russian TV drama brings Chernobyl to new generation A group of teenagers wanders through abandoned classrooms, clambers up a rusted wheel and stands on the roof of an apartment block topped with letters reading "Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union". ... more		Taiwan reveals new plans to send nuclear waste abroad Taiwan on Tuesday unveiled plans to process nuclear waste abroad for the first time as its power plants reach capacity - but environment groups slammed the proposal as "too risky". ... more		GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience How quantum computers can be validated when solving unsolvable problems		France and South Africa sign nuclear energy agreement Paris and Pretoria signed Tuesday an agreement which could open the way for French nuclear giant Areva to bid to build eight nuclear reactors in South Africa worth up to $50 billion (39.5 billion euros). ... more
				French parliament votes to cut nuclear energy reliance Lawmakers in France, the world's most nuclear-dependent country, on Friday voted to cut reliance on the energy source from more than 75 percent to 50 percent within a decade. ... more		S.Africa to ink nuclear pact with France South Africa, which plans a multi-billion dollar nuclear energy build, will sign a nuclear cooperation agreement with France, the government said Friday. ... more

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Radioactivity spikes hit Santa's helpers in Norway Almost three decades after the Chernobyl disaster thousands of kilometres away, a jump in radioactivity levels is making Norwegian reindeer meat unfit for consumption, a government agency said Thursday. ... more		EU approves UK's first nuclear plant for a generation The EU on Wednesday approved Britain's ambitious plan to build its first nuclear plant for a generation, with French and Chinese help, marking a major victory for nuclear energy three years after the Fukushima disaster. ... more		Orbit Over Obsolescence: How Satellite Constellations Are Replacing Cell Towers One Layer at a Time Streamlining Government Records with Social Media Archiving Tools SyntaxError: invalid decimal literal - What to Do		India nuclear plant guard kills three in shooting spree A paramilitary officer charged with guarding a nuclear plant shot and killed three of his colleagues on Wednesday in a shooting spree at their base in southern India, authorities said. ... more
Ship with radioactive waste threatens North Sea rig Helicopters pulled staff from the Beatrice oil rig in the North Sea because of the approach of a ship carrying radioactive waste, authorities said Wednesday. ... more		Westinghouse Signs Eight Additional U.S. Nuclear Fuel Contracts Westinghouse Electric Company has announced it has booked nearly $500M worth of additional nuclear fuel contracts with eight utility customers in its Americas region within the past year. The contra ... more		Fukushima operator, Sellafield to compare nuclear notes The operator of Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear plant announced Tuesday it had agreed to share knowledge and experience on decommissioning damaged reactors with Britain's Sellafield. ... more		Bolivia to spend $2 bn on nuclear energy plant: Morales Bolivia's President Evo Morales on Thursday announced plans to spend two billion dollars to build a nuclear energy plant, with construction set to get underway later this year. ... more

	Why Pakistan's leader wants ISIS to succeed With world attention riveted on U.S. and friendly Arab air strikes against Islamic State bases in Syria, Pakistan, one of the world's eight nuclear powers, was yet again a bubbling geopolitical cauldron. ... more		SAfrica denies corruption in Russia nuclear plant pact South Africa denied Wednesday any corruption was involved in a multi-billion dollar nuclear energy deal after controversy erupted over whether Russia had won the contract. ... more

Sweden's Social Democrats and Greens agree on nuclear freeze		Moscow, Kazakhstan initial deal to build Kazakh nuclear plant		India turns to nuclear as energy crisis deepens		Iran leader slams West 'blunders' but eyes cooperation		Sandia magnetized fusion technique produces significant results
Los Alamos researchers uncover new properties in nanocomposite oxide ceramics for reactor fuel, fast-ion conductors		AREVA wins additional contract from the US DoE for the development of Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel		Direct crude oil use in Saudi Arabia increasing		Austria to challenge 'scandalous' British nuclear deal		South Africa says no Russian nuclear reactor deal, yet

16,000 demonstrators rally against restarting Japan nuke plant

South Africa in '$50 bn deal' for Russian nuclear reactors

Britain's blockbuster nuclear deal to get EU nod

Iranians back nuclear deal, fear tough demands: poll

Japan minister attempts to convince public on nuclear

Finnish Greens quit government in nuclear row

Boosting armor for nuclear-waste eating microbes

Westinghouse Launches New Outage Control Center

Iran's current uranium enrichment 'not acceptable': US

AREVA signs a contract to manufacture a panel prototype for ITER project

Westinghouse Signs Agreements with China's SNPAS

Scientists discover hazardous waste-eating bacteria

Kremlin: Oil on table, but Iranian nuclear energy tops agenda

Japan newspaper apologises for false Fukushima report

U.S. assessing 'rumors' of Iran, Russia oil agreement

Japan nuclear watchdog backs restart of two reactors

EDF says to re-start UK nuclear reactors by end-2014

Japan's first female industry chief visits Fukushima plant

DSIT Solutions of Israel helps with nuclear power plant security

Japan places political star at heart of nuclear revival

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