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| July 09, 2014 |
 Clock ticking on Iran nuclear talks: Kerry Washington (AFP) July 01, 2014 - Time is running short to reach a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, and negotiations will not be extended merely as a foot-dragging ploy, top US diplomat John Kerry warned Tuesday. On the eve of the most intensive round of talks yet, Kerry called on Iran to make the right choices and prove to the world its claims that its nuclear energy program is peaceful by closing what he called ... more |  |
 Japan city launches legal bid to halt reactor build Tokyo (AFP) July 03, 2014 - A Japanese city on Thursday sought a court injunction to prevent a nuclear plant from being built, in a country that remains deeply suspicious of the technology three years after Fukushima. Toshiki Kudo, mayor of Hakodate in Japan's north, appeared at Tokyo District Court on Thursday afternoon to demand an indefinite freeze on construction of the nearby Oma nuclear plant. After a hiatus, ... more |  |
Improved method for isotope enrichment would better secure supplies Austin TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have devised a new method for enriching a group of the world's most expensive chemical commodities, stable isotopes, which are vital to medical imaging and nuclear power, as reported this week in the journal Nature Physics. For many isotopes, the new method is cheaper than existing methods. For others, it is more environmentally friendly. A ... more |  |
Westinghouse Extends New-plant Market with Specialized Seismic Option Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it is developing a specialized option of its AP1000 nuclear power plant for use in locations with higher seismic levels seen in some portions of the western United States and certain other countries. Westinghouse began the process of obtaining U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) review and approval of the "Specialized Seismic Option" at ... more |  |
Single Optical Fiber Combines 100s Of Sensors To Monitor Harsh Environments Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - By fusing together the concepts of active fiber sensors and high-temperature fiber sensors, a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has created an all-optical high-temperature sensor for gas flow measurements that operates at record-setting temperatures above 800 degrees Celsius. This technology is expected to find industrial sensing applications in harsh environments ranging ... more |  |
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Fukushima operator eyes wholesale power market in Europe: report Tokyo (AFP) June 26, 2014 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant wants to start operations in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, a report said Thursday, as it looks for ways to offset the huge costs of the disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) will set up a joint venture in Britain by March 2016 with another Japanese company to make large-scale power storage facilities, the Nikkei said, as ... more |  |
Angry scenes as Japan's TEPCO shareholders demand end to nuclearw Tokyo (AFP) June 26, 2014 - Furious shareholders in the company that runs Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power station joined campaigners Thursday to demand the permanent closure of the utility's atomic plants, as it held its annual meeting. Dozens of demonstrators with loudspeakers and banners said Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) must act to avoid a repetition of the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, w ... more |  |
Fukushima operator restarts water decontamination system Tokyo (AFP) June 22, 2014 - Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Sunday restarted its trouble-plagued water decontamination system for the first time in three months, the utility said. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has been forced to repeatedly switch off its Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), which purifies radiation-tainted water, due to a series of glitches plaguing the system since trial operations ... more |  |
Hungary approves 10 billion euro Russia loan for nuclear upgrade Budapest (AFP) June 23, 2014 - Hungarian lawmakers approved Monday a multi-billion-euro loan from Russia for an upgrade of the country's only nuclear power plant, a deal critics say increases Hungary's dependence on Moscow. In January, Prime Minister Viktor Orban struck an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia's atomic energy corporation Rosatom to build two new reactors at the Paks plant - located a ... more |  |
Angry Japan farmers bring Fukushima cow to Tokyo Tokyo (AFP) June 20, 2014 - Angry farmers from Fukushima brought a large cow to the centre of Tokyo Friday to demand Japan's government investigate a disease they say cattle have developed since the nuclear disaster three years ago. Operators of non-profit "Kibo no Bokujo", or "Farm of Hope", delivered a full-size black cow to the front of the agriculture ministry to demand an investigation into why it and many other a ... more |  |
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Russia says Bushehr nuclear expansion contract to be signed by year's end Moscow (UPI) Jun 23, 2013 - Russian plans to sign a contract with Iran to help expand the Bushehr nuclear power facility by the end of the year, Russia's nuclear regulator said Monday. Sergei Kirienko, chief executive at Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corp., said talks with Iranian officials are close to completion. "We hope that by the end of this year we will move on to the final signing and additions to the ... more |  |
Nuclear waste dump plan on Aboriginal land abandoned Sydney (AFP) June 19, 2014 - Plans to locate Australia's first nuclear waste dump in a remote outback area were dropped Thursday after a long battle with traditional Aboriginal landowners. Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory was nominated in early 2007 as a site to store low and intermediate radioactive waste under a deal negotiated with the Aboriginal Ngapa clan. But four other clans also laid claim to the la ... more |  |
 Japan satellites to monitor Fukushima, Chernobyl Tokyo (AFP) June 19, 2014 - Two Japanese satellites will be launched from Russia late Thursday to monitor environmental damage near the crippled nuclear plants in Fukushima and Chernobyl, officials said. The Ukrainian-designed Dnepr rocket carrying 33 satellites, including the two, will lift off at 1911 GMT from a space centre in the Urals region. The University of Tokyo developed the two satellites - the Hodoyos ... more |  |
 France unveils ambitious energy bill for greener nation Paris (AFP) June 18, 2014 - France on Wednesday unveiled a much-anticipated bill to reduce the country's dependency on nuclear energy and fossil fuels, after months of intense debate over one of the Socialist government's pet projects. The planned law, presented to the cabinet by energy and environment minister Segolene Royal, seeks to make France a greener country and reduce the nation's energy bill. The bill is a ... more |  |
 China has surpassed Britain's 'declining empire': media Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2014 - China has overtaken Britain as a world power, a state-run newspaper argued scornfully Wednesday, after Premier Li Keqiang oversaw the signing of trade deals that will see Chinese invest in British high-speed trains and nuclear power. "Britain's national strength cannot be placed in the same rank as China now, a truth difficult to accept for some Britons who want to stress their nobility," th ... more |  |
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Fukushima struggling to build ice wall to plug leak Tokyo (AFP) June 17, 2014 - The operator of Japan's battered Fukushima nuclear power plant said Tuesday it was having trouble with the early stages of an ice wall being built under broken reactors to contain radioactive water. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) has begun digging the trenches for a huge network of pipes pipes under the plant through which it intends to pass refrigerant. This will freeze the soil and form ... more |  |
Japan minister apologises for Fukushima money gaffe Tokyo (AFP) June 17, 2014 - A Japanese cabinet minister apologised on Tuesday after appearing to suggest people in nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima could be persuaded to put up with contaminated waste if the government threw cash at them. Environment minister Nobuteru Ishihara came under fire after saying money would be a decisive factor for local governments and residents being asked to accept plans to build storage fac ... more | |
AREVA awarded a contract to provide services for Kozloduy 5 and 6 VVER nuclear reactors Paris, France (SPX) Jun 12, 2014 - AREVA has been selected by the operator of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) to provide services for the safety instrumentation and control (I and C) and electrical systems for Kozloduy units 5 and 6. AREVA will also provide its expertise for the replacement or adaptation of the main electrical generators, which will provide a 10% increase in the electrical power output of each react ... more |  |
AREVA to provide additional modernization services for Gosgen Facility in Switzerland Paris, France (SPX) Jun 10, 2014 - AREVA has been selected by the Kernkraft Gosgen-Daniken AG to carry out two new projects for the Gosgen nuclear power plant in Switzerland. For the first project, AREVA will expand the used fuel assembly wet storage facility which was built by the group. Secondly, AREVA will modernize the electrical and instrumentation and control (I&C) systems of the emergency diesel generators. ARE ... more |  |
 Iran claims 4mbpd oil output possible if sanctions lifted Vienna (AFP) June 10, 2014 - Iran's oil output could reach 4.0 million barrels per day in "less than three months" if Western sanctions are lifted over its nuclear energy programme, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said Tuesday. "After lifting the sanctions, (in) less than three months we can produce four" million barrels of oil per day, Zanganeh told reporters upon his arrival in Vienna on the eve of an OPEC output meeting. ... more |  |
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