Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Alternative Energy - Nuclear Industry Face Higher Cooling Costs on New Plants




March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Poppy Trowbridge reports from Sizewell, England, on the safety systems in the latest generation of nuclear reactors.



In the News:




Nuclear power: Atomised approach
Financial Times
Insurers use them to calculate the cost of a plant's policy. They are also generally reported to the NRC and poor plants can face action. Perhaps the strongest sanction, though, is that every year industry chief executives gather at Inpo's Atlanta ...

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Fox News

The world needs nuclear power
Ottawa Citizen
And the volume of waste produced by the nuclear industry is trivially small. Coalburning plants worldwide have generated a mountain of waste: If piled in one place, it would form a mountain 1.5 kilometres high and 20 kilometres in circumference, ...
Beyond nuclear: Europe reacts to Germany's nuclear electricity exitICIS (subscription)

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CBC.ca

analysisEnergy angst: Japan's post-tsunami power crisis
CBC.ca
The March 11 earthquake and tsunami not only disabled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, but the resulting safety concerns closed a number of other reactors around this island nation. By June, forced or planned shutdowns will mean an estimated 65 per ...

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Nuclear energy renaissance - has it stalled or must it go on?
Mineweb
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov "Regulators should press ahead with approving construction licenses for new nuclear power plants despite Japan's nuclear crisis." US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, March 15 2011 If the use of fast-breeder reactors ...

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The Bradenton Times

Community News - Manatee Spotlight June 5, 2011
The Bradenton Times
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant located on the coastline lost power to the reactor cooling systems and experienced partial nuclear meltdowns resulting in radiation leaks and massive evacuations within 30 km of the area. ...







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