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Stories about: nuclear plants

Nuclear Meltdowns in Japan Was Avoidable, Experts Say The disaster currently unfolding at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan could have been prevented, had the reactors been constructed more recently, and with more advanced technology.Scientists say that the six boiling-water reactors (BWR) at the facility are of an old design, that is not too stable, an... 15 March 2011 12:02 GMT IAEA Proposes International Oversight of Nuclear Plants With many countries in the world, and especially the Middle East, announcing their intentions to build nuclear power plants in the next decade, the risk of more fuel production and reprocessing facilities, capable of creating weapons-grade uranium and plutonium increases sharply. In an attempt to stop this proliferat... 8 January 2009 05:40 GMT Greenpeace Protest at Old Spanish Nuclear Plant Greenpeace (GP) activists protested on Thursday in front of the Garona nuclear power plant, in Spain, chaining themselves to the entrance gate. The environmental organization is trying to get the newly-elected Socialist government to deny the renewed permit request the plant put forward. The facility is old, GP repre... 21 November 2008 03:58 GMT