Germany to research nuke waste site (UPI)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:48:57 GMT
BERLIN, March 15 (UPI) -- The German government plans to end a 10-year moratorium by reopening research into a potential nuclear waste storage site, a decision that sparked immediate criticism from the oppositi
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Germany To Research Nuke Waste Site (OfficialWire)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:50:19 GMT
The German government plans to end a 10-year moratorium by reopening research into a potential nuclear waste storage site, a decision that sparked immediate criticism from the opposition.
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Q&A: Xcel has an eye on future here (Monticello Times)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:21:45 GMT
When President Barack Obama and the United States Congress actually agree on something, it’s pretty big news. When that agreement falls on the topic of nuclear energy, it’s pretty big local news.
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Lithuania indignant over neighbouring Belarus’ nuclear project safety claims (Bellona Foundation)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:38:26 GMT
VILNIUS, Lithuania – At a public hearing that took place in Vilnius on March 2 to discuss the potential environmental impact of the Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant under planning in Belarus, participants voiced a strong opposition to the idea of having a new nuclear site just 50 kilometres from the Lithuanian capital. They followed with a request that the Lithuanian Ministry of Environment make an ...
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Funding deal bolsters US nuclear industry confidence (vnunet.com)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:27:12 GMT
Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen , Thursday 11 March 2010 at 11:09:00 US Department of Energy provides $40m for next-generation nuclear reactor research projects The US nuclear industry received a welcome confidence boost from the US government this week in the form of a $40m grant, even as policymakers continued to puzzle over how to store its waste. The Department of Energy (DoE) awarded $40m to ...
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Joining forces againstYucca Mountain decision (Tri-City Herald)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:36:01 GMT
Today, the Tri-City Herald and the Aiken Standard newspaper in South Carolina speak with one voice.
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Shipment of nuclear waste arrives from U.K. (The Japan Times)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:20:59 GMT
OSAKA — The first delivery of at least 850 canisters of high-level radioactive vitrified waste arrived Tuesday morning by ship from the U.K. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, where it will sit in storage for decades before being buried deep underground. Antinuclear activists argue that with no local government yet willing to host a final disposal site and concern over the international security ...
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Stand on nuke energy, power crisis (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:09:22 GMT
THE COUNTRY has been hit by outages as a result of low-generating capacity of hydroelectric plants due to the dry spell, and the breakdown and maintenance of power plants. Mindanao is particularly hard hit, suffering from rolling brownouts lasting 8 to 10 hours a day.
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Nuclear waste from U.K. arrives in Japan (People's Daily)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:38:07 GMT
A freighter carrying a cargo of high- level nuclear waste docked at the Mutsu Ogawa port in Aomori Prefecture, north Japan on Tuesday, local media reported. The vessel, which departed from Barrow Port in the northwest of England on Jan. 20, was carrying a payload of 28 cylinders of nuclear waste that was converted into solidified glass in Britain for disposal on behalf of four Japanese power ...
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Nuclear plant construction faces new obstacles (Finance and Commerce)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:58:01 GMT
Advocates pushing for an end to the state’s 16-year-old ban on nuclear power plant construction suffered a blow on Thursday when a bill to end the moratorium was amended in a way that “guts” the measure, according to the legislation’s author.
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