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Residents living near existing nuclear reactors only have "qualified support" for new power stations, a study shows.
While most locals trusted the operators of their nearby power station, some had a strong distrust of the UK Government and the nuclear industry, it added.
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An expert has been appointed by a university to investigate claims that radiation exposure may be linked to the deaths of five people who worked there.
Professor David Coggon from the Medical Research Council will lead the review at the University of Manchester.
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India and France have signed a major co-operation pact which paves the way for the sale of French nuclear reactors to Delhi, officials say.
The nuclear accord was agreed in Paris between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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A coroner is to examine the death of a doctor who worked in a university building at the centre of an inquiry into residual radiation.
Arthur Reader, who died of pancreatic cancer, worked in the University of Manchester's Rutherford Building.
A report has already questioned whether the building could have contributed to the deaths of two former lecturers.
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French energy firm EDF is expected to announce a £12.4bn deal to buy British Energy, the firm which operates the UK's eight nuclear power plants.
In addition, Centrica, which owns British Gas, will take 25% of all power generated by British Energy once it is in French hands, the BBC has learnt.
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An inquiry into the removal of body tissue from dead Sellafield nuclear workers can examine the patients' medical records, a judge has ruled.
Michael Redfern QC is heading a public inquiry into why samples were taken between 1962 and 1992 and whether next of kin were informed.
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Scientists monitoring a beach in Fife for radioactive hotspots say they have discovered seven contaminated areas.
Local people are worried Dalgety Bay may now be placed on a new register for radioactively contaminated land.
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An inquiry into the removal of body tissue from Sellafield nuclear workers has been hit by concerns about the medical records of dead patients.
Michael Redfern QC is heading a public inquiry into why samples were taken between 1962 and 1992 and whether next of kin were informed.
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Belgian authorities have warned people in the south of the country not to eat locally grown produce after a leak from a nuclear research institute.
A safety alert was issued after a leak of radioactive iodine gas from a laboratory in Fleurus, near the southern city of Charleroi.
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Business Secretary John Hutton has appeared to warn against imposing a windfall tax on energy companies.
He told the Daily Telegraph the "right framework" was needed to ensure £100bn was invested in nuclear, renewables and clean coal power stations.
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A man has been charged with obstructing a highway after the entrance to Devonport Dockyard was barricaded by a group of anti-nuclear campaigners.
Police were called to the dockyard's Camel's Head gate in Plymouth at 0720 BST on Friday after protesters tied ladders together to block the entrance.
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The entrance to Devonport Dockyard has been barricaded by a group of anti-nuclear campaigners.
Police were called to the dockyard's Camel's Head gate in Plymouth at 0720 BST after protesters tied ladders together to block the entrance.
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A campaign to route a railway line to the far north of Scotland across the Dornoch Firth has won backing from a nuclear organisation.
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) said the Dornoch Rail Link would boost the local economy.
The link was mentioned in its submission to Scottish Government consultation on new transport projects.
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Tonnes of radioactive liquid metal - a legacy of the experimental fast reactor programme at Dounreay in Caithness - have been destroyed.
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) said the material was turned into "harmless" salt water.
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Plans to dispose of radioactive waste at the site of a former opencast pit in Cumbria have met with opposition.
Recycling and waste management firm Sita UK wants to buy land at Keekle Head, near Whitehaven, for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
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There has been a plutonium leak at a site run by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Austria.
UN nuclear monitors said pressure had built up and plutonium had contaminated a storage-room at the Seibersdorf laboratory, south of Vienna.
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Police in Japan have raided the premises of a company suspected of illegally exporting machinery that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
Officers targeted the headquarters of Horkos Corp and several related sites in the southern city of Fukuyama.
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A French nuclear monitoring body has expressed concern at the number of leaks from French nuclear power stations in recent weeks.
The director of Criirad, an independent body, said the organisation was worried by the numbers of people contaminated by four separate incidents.
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