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March 01, 2016

Glitch halts Japan reactor days after restart: utility
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 29, 2016
A Japanese utility on Monday said that a surprise glitch has switched off a nuclear reactor just days after it was turned on again after a nationwide shutdown following the 2011 Fukushima crisis. Kansai Electric Power had been planning to start generating electricity on Monday from its No. 4 reactor at the Takahama plant, 380 kilometres (236 miles) west of Tokyo. But the reactor unexpectedly shut down Monday afternoon after the restart began Friday, marking the first major technical problem fo ... read more

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Mexico issues alert after theft of radioactive material Five Mexican states were put on alert Sunday after a truck carrying a container of potentially dangerous radioactive material was stolen, the interior ministry said. ... more		Japan restarts another reactor, fourth since tsunami disaster shutdown A Japanese utility on Friday said it started up a nuclear reactor, the fourth to come back online following a nationwide shutdown after the March 2011 tsunami disaster. ... more		Screening truffles for radioactivity 30 years from Chernobyl Some forest mushrooms, such as wild porcini, can accumulate dangerous levels of radioactivity from the soils they grow in. But until now it was unclear if the same was true for truffles, fungi that ... more
				Fifth year of losses for Areva on Finnish provisions France's struggling nuclear giant Areva saw its share price plunge in Paris on Friday after posting a fifth straight year of losses on new provisions to pay for a spat over an atomic plant in Finland and a major asset writedown. ... more		Nuclear water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis Fish market vendor Satoshi Nakano knows which fish caught in the radiation tainted sea off the Fukushima coast should be kept away from dinner tables. ... more

Areva secures bridging loan to survive 2016 France's struggling nuclear giant Areva said Thursday it has secured a 1.1 billion euros bridging loan from six banks, and pushed back the publication of its annual results by a day. ... more		Lithuania aims synchronization of electricity system with Europe: PM Vice-President of the European Commission (EC) responsible for the EU's energy union Maros Sefcovic met with Lithuanian leaders on Monday to discuss the creation of the Energy Union, regional energy ... more		Europe bakes in summer's first heatwave as continent warms WHO says all Covid-19 origin theories still open, after inconclusive study Winds hamper firefighters in Turkey as heat wave scorches Southern Europe		Study finds surprising variability in shape of Van Allen Belts The shape of the two electron swarms 600 miles to more than 25,000 miles from the Earth's surface, known as the Van Allen Belts, could be quite different than has been believed for decades, accordin ... more
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UK science leads the way in nuclear research The UK's synchrotron science facility, Diamond Light Source, is a hub for renewable energy and energy recycling research, but less well known are its applications as a hub for nuclear research. Work ... more		Moscow Ready to Fulfill Loan Obligations on Hungarian Paks NPP -Putin Russia is ready to provide a loan 10-billion-euro loan for building new facilities at the Hungarian Paks Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Earlier ... more		Radioactive water leak suspends Japan reactor start-up A radioactive water leak has halted plans to re-start a reactor at a nuclear power plant in western Japan, which would have been the fourth to come online after a nationwide shutdown, its operator said Sunday. ... more		Video of Belgian nuclear official seized in Paris attacks probe Investigators probing last year's deadly jihadist attacks in Paris have found video footage of a senior Belgian nuclear official, the federal prosecutor said Wednesday. ... more

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Total nuclear power capacity in China to double by 2020

Chinese nuclear firm named world's 5th largest

China planning to build floating nuclear power plant

Russia Pledges $300,000 to IAEA's Innovative Nuclear Reactors Project

India, France to build 6 nuclear reactors at Jaitapur Plant

AREVA signed $300 million in uranium enrichment contracts in 2015

One dead in mudslide at French nuclear waste site

Japan's 'rigid' atomic inspections need freedom: IAEA

Denmark, Greenland sign agreement on uranium

92,000 petition Canada not to store nuclear waste near Great Lakes

Iran Set to Start Construction of Two Nuclear Power Plants

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Netherlands says 'serious' concerns about Belgium nuclear plants

Belgium's ageing nuclear plants worry neighbours

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