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17/5/2013
In January, it seemed the restart of San Onofre Unit 2 would be a corporate cake walk.
With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license exception for a reactor whose botched $770 million ...
15/5/2013
Experts judged on Wednesday that a reactor on Japan's west coast is located on ground at high risk of an earthquake, setting in motion a process that will likely lead to the first permanent
shutdown of a
nuclear plant since the 2011 Fukushima ...
8/5/2013
Last summer, a leaky tank led to the
shutdown of the Palisades
nuclear power plant in Michigan. So plant owner Entergy patched up the leak, fired back up the reactor, and hoped for the best.
Unfortunately, the best did not ...
21/3/2013
For British entrepreneur Timothy Porter and millions of other Europeans who get generous financial incentives for solar panels, the sun has been very lucrative.
Not only does the government pay Porter for producing solar energy he ...
13/3/2013
The restart of Japan's
nuclear power
industry is proving pivotal to the economic vision of the country's prime minister as soaring fuel bills after the Fukushima disaster threaten to keep the country's trade in a deeper deficit for ...
6/3/2013
Radiation levels in the abandoned communities near Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant have fallen 40% in the past year. Inside the wrecked facility, construction workers rush to complete state-of-the-art equipment that will remove dozens of ...
4/3/2013
President Obama on Monday named two people to his cabinet who will be charged with making good on his threat to use the powers of the executive branch to tackle climate change and energy policy if Congress does not act quickly.Mr. Obama ...
6/2/2013
A decision by Duke Energy Corp to retire rather than repair its damaged Crystal River reactor in Florida may signal the
shutdown of other older U.S.
nuclear plants as weak natural gas prices make significant investment in them ...
4/2/2013
Is this the end? According to the Green MP Caroline Lucas, new
nuclear power in this country has been "completely derailed". She may not be wrong. She was talking about the decision by Cumbria county council to reject the
nuclear waste dump the ...
17/1/2013
It's goodbye
nuclear, hello renewables as Japan prepares to build the world's largest offshore wind farm this July.
By 2020, the plan is to build a total of 143 wind turbines on platforms 16 kilometres off the coast of Fukushima, home to ...
16/1/2013
It's goodbye
nuclear, hello renewables as Japan prepares to build the world's largest offshore wind farm this July.
By 2020, the plan is to build a total of 143 wind turbines on platforms 16 kilometres off the coast of Fukushima, home to ...
2/1/2013
Because the United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet, Americans have the luxury of being proactive in ensuring their future security. But the path to that security looks very different from the way it did even a few years ...
5/11/2012
South Korea has shut down two
nuclear reactors after it was revealed that some parts used had not been properly vetted, an official says.
Knowledge Economy Minister Hong Suk-woo said these were "non-core" parts and were not a safety ...
30/10/2012
The future of low-carbon energy in the UK became a little clearer on Tuesday when a new player entered the
nuclear race, and the government published a shortlist of four potential carbon capture and storage projects that will compete for ...
30/10/2012
Three
nuclear power reactors were shut down because of electricity issues during Hurricane Sandy, while a fourth plant, Oyster Creek in New Jersey, remains in "alert' mode because of high water levels in its water intake structure, the
Nuclear ...
22/10/2012
Dominion Resources Inc plans to shut its Kewaunee plant in Wisconsin next year, the first U.S.
nuclear plant to fall victim to the steep drop in power prices as rising natural gas production makes some plants uncompetitive.
After ...
18/10/2012
Japan's new
nuclear regulator will impose tighter safety standards for atomic plants, taking account of geological data in the earthquake-prone country, its head said on Thursday.
Shuichi Tanaka, in an interview, also said his new body ...
20/9/2012
A reactor at Three Mile Island, the site of the nation's worst
nuclear accident, shut down unexpectedly on Thursday afternoon when a coolant pump tripped and steam was released, the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission told NBC News.
The system ...
15/9/2012
Japan will not stop work on several planned reactors, the trade minister was quoted as saying on Saturday, casting further doubt on whether this resource-poor nation will follow through on a contentious plan to phase out
nuclear power.In ...
14/9/2012
A madness is taking hold. In the same week as Arctic ice cover is recorded at its lowest ever extent, two major countries decide to reduce or eliminate their use of the only proven source of low-carbon power that can be deployed at sufficient ...
29/8/2012
As Japan moves to cut back on
nuclear power after last year’s disaster in Fukushima, it is running into a harsh economic reality: the cost of immediately abandoning its
nuclear reactors may be too high for some big utilities to ...
23/8/2012
Two more Southern California city councils voiced urgent concerns [3] about the crippled San Onofre
nuclear plant this month, but hopes are dimming that those communities and others near the troubled plant will have any role in deciding its ...
17/8/2012
Record heat and drought conditions across the United States this summer have plagued power plants that require cool water to produce electricity.
From Connecticut to California, high water temperatures and diminished access to water ...
13/8/2012
A reactor at the Millstone
nuclear plant in Waterford, Conn., has shut down because of something that its 1960s designers never anticipated: the water in Long Island Sound was too warm to cool it.
Under the reactor`s safety rules, the ...
5/7/2012
The future of the troubled San Onofre
nuclear power plant could balance on an inescapable question: Is it worth the money to fix it?Engineers face a daunting task finding a solution for problems that knocked the seaside plant offline last ...