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Governments may be using the wrong guidelines when trying to establish whether or not a population should be evicted form areas surrounding nuclear power plants, or that lie close to the site of a nuclear accident. A new study shows that these guidelines may be too strict and conservative.
Investigators with the Ca... |
15 May 2012
05:52 GMT |
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All major news outlets have confirmed that Japan has shut down its last operating nuclear reactor over the weekend. Today, May 7, represents the first time in decades when the Asian nation no longer utilizes electricity derived from nuclear fission.
Saturday evening, at 11:03 pm local time, the No. 3 reactor at the... |
7 May 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Yesterday, February 9, authorities in the United States gave the go-ahead for the construction of two new nuclear reactors in the state of Georgia. This is the first time the building of nuclear reactors is authorized in the United States, since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident three decades ago.
North Americ... |
10 February 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Nuclear power is far from being a risk-free source of energy. After the Fukushima disaster, governments worldwide are thinking about less risky methods of responding to the energy demand.
On the other hand, FirstEnergy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have decided to give the green light to the reopening of Da... |
6 January 2012
04:26 GMT |
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America is now one step closer to a new generation of nuclear reactors, less risky than previous candidates and more efficient when it comes to the amount of energy provided.
Federal regulators have recently given the green light to a new design revealing improvements but not quite considered the next best thing by... |
23 December 2011
09:46 GMT |
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According to TEPCO, the organization managing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Japan, all three conditions needed to declare a cold shutdown condition at the installation's damaged nuclear reactors have been met.
The first is to bring the temperature inside the pressure vessel to less than 100 deg... |
16 December 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Experts handling the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident say that radioactive water made its way into the Pacific Ocean many times since the March 11 earthquake that crippled the installation. A new study now looks at how radioactivity damaged the ocean during the first four months.
It therefore covers ... |
10 December 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Bill Gates has recently announced he plans to develop a new nuclear reactor, powered by depleted uranium. In order to achieve this goal, he is counting on China's support. In his opinion, this strategy represents a cost-effective method of producing energy while complying with high safety standards.
So far, th... |
8 December 2011
02:58 GMT |
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Greenpeace activists might have gone a little too far this time, after they broke in a French nuclear site located 95 kilometers from Paris. Their action aimed to reveal the vulnerability of the power plant. Greenpeace called the police and they arrived in no time to investigate the case. After nine hours spent on t... |
6 December 2011
02:43 GMT |
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Officials from General Electric might get their hands on a multibillion pound project developed in the UK. The major company intends to build plutonium reactors at Sellafield, meant to provide enough power to 750,000 average homes.
To do so, the power plant would exploit the benefits of plutonium, a residual compou... |
1 December 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Japan is struggling to improve its energy infrastructure, hoping to boost the field of renewables by exploiting the benefits of solar, methanol and fuel cell innovations. Eight months after the Fukushima disaster, authorities try to replace the nuclear power with alternatives displaying a higher safety level.
Panas... |
23 November 2011
07:07 GMT |
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Despite the fact that France has openly admitted that it can't afford to say goodbye to nuclear power, the nation is excited to welcome extra green power coming from a giant project which will harness the water energy in a particular area located off the coast of France near Paimpol-Bréhat.
The massive ... |
15 November 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Many nations have redefined their position regarding the nuclear power usage, after the devastating impact of the Fukushima disaster. Countries like Belgium, Austria, Germany and Switzerland started to realize the seriousness of the threats behind this industry, so they are presently trying to replace the benefits p... |
10 November 2011
07:17 GMT |
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The Fukushima disaster made several governments reconsider their position towards the development of nuclear power. Belgium could be one more nation added to the list of those countries which are willing to abandon the benefits of this alternative source of energy, in favor of the environment and the wellbeing of its... |
1 November 2011
03:32 GMT |
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Nowdays,when the global population reached 7 billions and its energy demand is increasing, scientists try to develop efficient alternatives to replace traditional sources of power. While MIT Energy Initiative is preparing to celebrate its 5th anniversary, its researchers are presently trying to find out if zero-car... |
27 October 2011
05:45 GMT |
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Despite the dangerous precedent reflected by the Fukushima incident, China won't stop exploiting the benefits of nuclear power. The Chinese government plans to expand the usage of nuclear energy, by adding an extra 106 GW of nuclear capacity, until 2035.
The officials want to overtake their American rivals in ... |
25 October 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Mr. Akihiro Sawa, Japan's leading policy analyst, has recently declared himself in favor of the development of nuclear power technologies, even after the devastating effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.Sawa stated that, in his opinion, Japan should “maintain and improve its nuclear power tec... |
17 October 2011
03:51 GMT |
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Since a massive earthquake struck Japan on March 11, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been under a state of emergency, given the amount of damage it suffered. That damage led directly to the release of radioactive particles in the Pacific Ocean, and experts now analyze the consequences.From the get-go, t... |
19 May 2011
02:40 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Japanese authorities detected a crack in the reactor 2 building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Through the 20-centimeter (7.9-inch) hole, highly-radioactive water is spilling into the Pacific Ocean, and experts are scrambling to fix the issue. The contaminated water found to be co... |
4 April 2011
05:02 GMT |
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The failure of three nuclear reactors in Japan has prompted talks in the United States about the risk the country runs of being exposed to radioactive particles emanating from the facility. According to experts, the general public can rest assured that little to no such particles will reach North America. At this poi... |
15 March 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Over the past three days, three explosions rocked the reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The facility was heavily affected by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off the nation's shorelines on March 11. Three reactors at the plant are now going into meltdown.Japanese officials ... |
15 March 2011
05:30 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the March 11 tremor that devastated Japan, the country is currently trying to come to terms with the consequences that the most powerful earthquake in the nation's history had. Among them is the explosion that affected a nuclear power plant reactor, and is currently endangering another. The F... |
14 March 2011
02:58 GMT |
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According to reports in the Russian media, the country's authorities and Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) have big plans for the nation's future in space. Nuclear-powered spacecraft are high on the priority list, as is the development of shields against space debris.Russia has been dreaming about going to t... |
25 November 2010
02:42 GMT |
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The President of the United States, Barack Obama, has just announced that the federal government will authorize the release of $8 billion in loan guarantees, to stimulate the construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the last 30 years. At this time, the Southern Company has plans to construct two modern f... |
17 February 2010
08:50 GMT |
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Late last year, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) announced its plans to begin work on the design and construction phases of a new, nuclear-powered spacecraft. This type of project is not new, but the Russian government apparently has taken things seriously. It has just alloted about 430 million rubles ($1... |
12 January 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Given the fact that the effects of global warming are becoming increasingly obvious and devastating, the government of the United Kingdom is among a select few in the world today that is actually doing something about it. A huge part of its future plans is to construct an entirely new generation of nuclear power plan... |
26 November 2009
08:54 GMT |
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According to a new idea, it may be that the effects of global warming are currently simply too great to be mitigated completely or partially. University of Utah Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Tim Garrett reveals that rising carbon dioxide concentrations, of the kind that is currently held responsible as ... |
23 November 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Ithaca, NY-based Widetronix is currently developing a new generation of nuclear batteries, called betavoltaics. The devices are able to produce a steady flow of low current levels, and can last for up to 25 years, experts say. The batteries will soon undergo their testing phase, and the entire process will be supervi... |
17 November 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Over the past few years, governments around the world have started turning their attention to nuclear energy again, mostly because other energetic sectors are becoming increasingly susceptible to price fluctuations on the international market. With global warming and climate change, using fossil fuels becomes an incr... |
17 November 2009
10:00 GMT |
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The United Kingdom (UK) plans to move forward with the construction of a new generation of power plants, which it wants to have ready as soon as possible. Detailed plans of the initiative will be announced any day now by Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change secretary. The MP will also speak about the most suita... |
9 November 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Top officials in the Russian Federation announced on Thursday that they gave their acceptance to a proposal stating that the country should pursue the development of a nuclear-powered spacecraft, which is currently set to fly as early as 2012. This would essentially leave the former Communist nation in charge of the ... |
5 November 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Experts who spent the last few years analyzing all the data that the Cassini orbiter sent back about Saturn's moon Titan dream of setting up a mission to the surface of the natural site. But, seeing how most of it is covered in an ocean of liquid hydrocarbons, landing a rover could prove difficult. Therefore, it... |
14 October 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Queens University experts now have the chance to build something that few other research facilities can boast having – their very own nuclear material testing facility. Thanks to a $6.9-million grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the scientists will now be able to build a test reactor, in w... |
25 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Despite ample opposition by environmentalists and anti-nuclear activists, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has allowed the Oyster Creek nuclear reactor in South Jersey to continue to operate for more than 20 years, deeming that the threats the machine poses to the environment and its workers are minimal. Debate has ... |
2 April 2009
08:45 GMT |
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Excess plutonium produced in large nuclear reactors has been a nuisance to get rid of or conceal ever since the first batches were produced in the 1940s. It degrades over many years and needs special storage conditions so as not to influence the soil it's buried in. Now, researchers at the Ben-Gurion University ... |
5 March 2009
05:20 GMT |
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is to become the first Arab country to benefit from nuclear power, according to the US State Department. Secretary Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to sign the nuclear cooperation pact later this year, which will pave the way for the country opening its first nuclear facility. The UAE has ... |
19 January 2009
09:18 GMT |
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The numbers of compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered cars has been slowly rising in Egypt, South America and Europe over the last few years, as people try to escape the burden of having to pay more and more money for gasoline or diesel. Plus, the gas offers a slightly cleaner alternative to fossil fuel, releasing very... |
2 December 2008
09:11 GMT |
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On July 7, eighteen tons of uranium solution containing natural uranium have been accidentally released in the surrounding environment from one of the containment tanks of the Tricastin nuclear power plant, southern France, leading to the contamination of the ground with about 75 kilograms of unenriched nuclear mater... |
19 July 2008
03:26 GMT |
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According to the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, quoting the Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, Germany will build up to 30 offshore wind farms by the end of 2030 in order to increase the contribution of the renewable energy sources to the total amount of power produced by the country, thus cutting a significan... |
7 July 2008
04:08 GMT |
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World War II and the Cold War era saw several thousands of nuclear tests being carried out throughout the world, including the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which literally put an end to hostilities in World War II. During that time, significant amounts of nuclear fallout have been produced,... |
5 July 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Not long ago, the world was dreaming of clean electric energy generated with the nuclear power plants, but you can't have nuclear power plants without nuclear fuel, can you? We're in the 21st century and we're pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than ever, despite of all the international a... |
22 April 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Forget about sending a nuclear powered rover to the surface of the Red Planet, NASA officials say! The mission may stop right before it even stars due to related costs rising at an alarming rate. The mission is dead in the water since previous tests have shown that the current design of the vehicle, which is supposed... |
29 February 2008
06:44 GMT |
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Iran had a field day on Monday after reporting that it had successfully launched into space its first rocket, thus becoming one of the 11 countries in the world to have capabilities of launching satellites into space. The launch hasn't been confirmed yet by the international community, but could be one of those ... |
4 February 2008
07:23 GMT |
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The first ever public electric power distribution system appeared in the late 19th century and mostly supplied direct currents, with multiple output voltages, or under the form of alternating current, which reverses the polarity of the current every 20 milliseconds. However, the energy demand and the advantages that ... |
28 December 2007
10:12 GMT |
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Though nuclear power was at first viewed as a great source of alternative energy, in the last three decades many countries turned their back on it. Now under the threat of global warming, the nuclear industry seems to be in vogue again. Nuclear power produces great quantities of electric energy, without emitting sign... |
20 November 2007
07:03 GMT |
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The predictions regarding the evolution of population growth suggest that by the year 2025 more than 3.5 billion people living in different areas on the globe will suffer from severe fresh water shortages. The challenge is now to find an environmental solution, to make fresh water by removing the salt out of seawater... |
20 November 2007
03:21 GMT |
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