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• NPCIL and NTPC to form joint venture

  National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), India's largest power company, and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture for the construction of new nuclear power plants in India. Posted Feb 16 2009, 08:54 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: India, nuclear power plants, nuclear power

• Joint venture for Comanche Peak

  A joint venture company has been established by Luminant and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to support the construction of the latter's advanced pressurized water reactor at Comanche Peak in Texas. Posted Feb 02 2009, 09:05 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Nuclear Energy, MHI, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, New Nuclear Plant, Reactors, nuclear power plants, Comanche Peak

• Low oil prices could harm future energy supplies

  Energy leaders at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, have debated whether low oil prices could slow investment in new fossil fuel supplies, as well as in alternative energy supplies. The head of EdF suggested now is the time to invest in nuclear energy. Posted Jan 30 2009, 10:06 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Nuclear Energy, nuclear renaissance, nuclear power plants, Switzerland, nuclear fission, engineering, nuclear power

• Compass at rest (Vesmir, S Vanek)

  Posted Jan 28 2009, 10:48 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Investment, nuclear power plants, nuclear fission, nuclear power

• Dutch nuclear plant part of RWE deal

  RWE's offer for Dutch utility Essent will see the formation of the fourth largest energy supplier in Europe and will also include Essent's half-ownership of the Netherlands' only operating nuclear power plant. Posted Jan 13 2009, 11:31 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: RWE, nuclear power plants

• Reactors operating normally after Iwate earthquake

  Three nuclear power plants are operating normally after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in the prefecture of Iwate, northern Japan. The Onagawa and Higashidori nuclear plants were unaffected by the quake, according to an official from the Tohoku Electric Power Co. At the Fukushima Daini plant, operated by TEPCO, there was a small spillage of weakly radioactive water from a storage pool in a warehouse used to store waste. The spillage was contained within the facilty and there has been no impact on the environment, according to a spokesman at the plant. Posted Jun 14 2008, 08:01 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Japan, earthquake, nuclear power plants