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March 24, 2015

Fukushima reactor test offers detailed look inside
Tokyo (AFP) March 20, 2015
Confirmation this week that all the fuel inside one of Fukushima's broken reactors has long-since melted leaves the site's Japanese operator with the tricky task of eventually scooping it all out, experts say. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said Thursday it had performed a sophisticated scan of the reactor core, giving the most detailed picture so far of what is going on in the high-radiation environment. Nuclear experts said Friday that the test showed the nuclear fuel rods had melted beyond reco ... read more

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				Japan to Retire Five Old Nuclear Reactors Three of Japan's fifty nuclear reactors will be decommissioned due to old age and two more will follow suit shortly as the government seeks to reassure the public of the safety of the country's reac ... more		S.Korea accuses North of cyber-attacks on nuclear plants South Korea's government accused North Korea Tuesday of carrying out cyber-attacks last December on its nuclear power plant operator, describing them as a provocation which threatened people's lives and safety. ... more

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South Africa Rebuffs US Attempts to Take Over its Nuclear Materials South Africa has enough nuclear fuel for about six bombs - each of them would wipe out Washington, DC, or large sections of New York City. After apartheid officially ended with the 1994 election of ... more		Areva studies Chinese investment French state-controlled nuclear group Areva was studying a possibility to get investments from China as part of restructuring plan aimed at reversing heavy loss, a local newspaper reported on Monday ... more		Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': report Trash, mulch and security: All jobs for troops in Washington Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050: report		Los Alamos offers new insights into radiation damage evolution Two reports from Los Alamos National Laboratory this week in the Nature journal Scientific Reports are helping crack the code of how certain materials respond in the highly-damaging radiation enviro ... more
				Taiwan stages mass anti-nuclear rally Thousands of people took to the streets in Taiwan on Saturday to call for the island to scrap its use of nuclear energy and to voice opposition to controversial plans to ship nuclear waste abroad, organisers said. ... more		Hungary, EU say in talks over Budapest-Russia nuclear deal Hungary and Brussels denied Friday that the EU has blocked Budapest's 12.5 billion euro ($13 billion) nuclear deal with Russia, saying that talks were still ongoing to resolve disputes over the plan. ... more

Hungary denies EU nuclear veto report Hungary denied Thursday a newspaper report that the European Union has vetoed its planned nuclear project with Russia, a move which could strain frosty relations between Moscow and Brussels. ... more		Microbial soil cleanup at Fukushima Proteins from salt-loving, halophilic, microbes could be the key to cleaning up leaked radioactive strontium and caesium ions from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant incident in Japan. The p ... more		Sun reverses decades-long decline and shows rising activity AI model predicts harmful solar winds with unprecedented accuracy JUNO begins decade-long mission to probe neutrino mysteries		When it comes to nuclear disaster, safety really is in numbers The safety of nuclear plants, as well as the medical management of acute radiation syndrome, could soon be dramatically improved thanks to a new mathematical equation developed by Japan's Nuclear Sa ... more
South China nuclear plant operates second unit China has taken another major step forwards in nuclear power generation, with the second generation unit of a nuclear plant in the southern Guangdong Province connected to the grid on Tuesday aftern ... more		Japan marks 4th anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster Japan marked the fourth anniversary Wednesday of a quake-tsunami disaster that swept away thousands of people and sparked a nuclear crisis in a tragedy that continues to wreak misery for many. ... more		Four years on, Japan's tsunami victims frozen in their tragedy In cold drizzle Takayuki Ueno combs a desolate winter beach for the bones of his three-year-old son, unable to move on in his grief until he finds the remains of a boy killed by Japan's monstrous tsunami four years ago. ... more		France's Areva to cut 1,500 jobs in Germany French nuclear group Areva, which incurred massive losses last year, is looking to cut around 1,500 jobs in Germany by the end of 2017, a company spokesman said Wednesday. ... more

	China Should Speed Up Its Nuclear Development to Meet 2020 Goals Chinese authorities will be forced to speed up the approval process for constructing new nuclear reactors if they want to meet 2020 goals, according to the chairman of China National Nuclear Corpora ... more		TEPCO Pledges to Reveal All Data on Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has pledged it would release all the information regarding Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant radioactive contamination after it had been revealed last month that the comp ... more

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Areva nuclear group announces 4.8 bn euro loss		South Korea, Saudi Arabia to Pen Nuclear Cooperation Agreement		Hungary to keep secret details of Russian nuclear plant deal		Cost estimation for Nuclear Decommissioning Projects		US Nuclear Facility Miscalculated Workers' Radiation Exposure

Kazakhstan Evacuating Village Where People Fall Asleep At Random

Taiwan Controversial Nuclear Waste Plan Hits a Snag

Taiwan opposition demands halt to overseas nuclear waste plan

French nuke plant shut down due to pipe defect

Fukushima operator concealed radioactive leak for nearly a year

European Commission May Axe Hungary-Russia Nuclear Plant Deal

UV exposure keeps damaging skin after sunset: study

Areva nuclear group estimates 4.9bn euro losses

Fresh nuclear leak detected at Fukushima plant

Taiwan seeks to export nuclear waste overseas

Fukushima decommissioning made 'significant progress': IAEA

Rosatom on schedule to deliver new units for Hungary's Paks NPP

Russia, China to Enhance Cooperation in Nuclear Energy Sector

Cosmic "Reionization" Is More Recent than Predicted

US Names Russian Nuclear Power Plants for India, Iran Best Projects of 2014

Japan to Restart Idled Nuclear Reactors

Post-Fukushima Flooding Hazard Re-evaluation Lessons Learned

Australia Could Resume Uranium Supplies to Russia if Relations Stabilize

Wildfires in Ukraine could revive Chernobyl's radiation

Cairo, Moscow in nuclear deal as Putin bids to boost ties

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