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EDF faces challenge over nuclear technology - Times Online
EDF, the French utility, could face a legal challenge over the technology it has decided to use in building Britain’s latest generation of power stations. EDF announced last May that it planned to employ Areva, the French nuclear energy group, but its decision, which was made without giving rival reactor manufacturers an opportunity to bid for the contract, could be illegal under European law, according to Ros Kellaway, partner and head of EU competition law in Eversheds
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Man arrested over theft of radioactive material in Chiba - Mainichi Daily News
ICHIHARA, Chiba -- A man who stole a container with radioactive material in it from a company here and apparently dumped the substance in a river in Yokohama has been arrested, police said. Tomonori Iso, 40, was arrested on suspicion of stealing a container of iridium 192 from a storage room at Non-Destructive Inspection Co., in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture. He has reportedly admitted to the allegations against him.
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Nuclear plant proposed for drinking-water lake
SASKATOON -- A lake that helps provide drinking water to about 40 per cent of Saskatchewan residents is the provincial power utility's preferred site for a nuclear power plant, a national media outlet reported Wednesday. CBC News said a report by Stantec Consulting Ltd., prepared in February 2007, says a power plant at Elbow, near Lake Diefenbaker in southern Saskatchewan, would be preferable to other sites.
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Mangalorean.Com- Serving Mangaloreans Around The World!
Rio de Janeiro, May 8 (IANS) Brazil plans to move ahead over the next few years with an ambitious nuclear programme that includes power plants and a nuclear submarine, EFE news agency reported Thursday quoting a minister. Speaking to foreign reporters Wednesday, science and technology minister Sergio Rezende said that the government had been discussing the entire programme and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva "is close to signing an executive order to create a committee to look after the programme."
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edmontonsun.com - Canada- Tories pushing to have Canada enrich uranium, but won't talk
OTTAWA — Does Stephen Harper’s Conservative government have a hidden nuclear agenda? Not if you happen to live outside Canada. The Canadian government has been campaigning internationally for months to add this country to the small, tightly circumscribed club of nuclear enrichment states. But the diplomatic arm-twisting only came to light less than three weeks ago, when the United States announced it was dropping its insistence on a ban on uranium enrichment technology to non-nuclear states.
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House Kicks Off Debate Over Future Of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
WASHINGTON (May 7, 2008) — A House Armed Services Committee subcommittee today will kick off the debate over the future of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, the infrastructure used to design, build and maintain the thousands of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal. The subcommittee will review a Department of Energy (DOE) revitalization plan that would dramatically increase the complex's ability to produce new nuclear weapons.
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No penalty for Vermont Yankee cooling-tower collapse | burlingtonfreepress.com | The Burlington Free Press
BRATTLEBORO -- The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant will not be penalized for allowing a cooling tower to degrade to such an extent that it collapsed, spilling thousands of gallons of water. Advertisement The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has instead issued the plant a "noncited violation" for not following nuclear industry recommendations for preventing the problems that led to the collapse last August.
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State orders radiation tests at Weymouth Neck waste site - The Boston Globe
State officials have decided that the 68-acre Weymouth Neck hazardous waste site should be tested for radiation contamination. The decision marks a change in direction for Department of Environmental Protection regulators who earlier this year received a statement from ConocoPhillips, the site's previous owner, indicating that the company was satisfied that its cleanup effort was complete and the site posed no significant risk to people living or working on it.
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DEC: West Valley cleanup short of goals - Business First of Buffalo:
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says 21 years after agreeing to remove radioactive waste at the Western New York Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, the federal government has not met expectations. The state agency released a report May 7, saying the U.S. Department of Energy has yet to reach the first regulatory milepost -- the completion of a final environmental impact statement at the facility, which has been closed since 1975.
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Jacksonville.com: Georgia: Story: New reactors to mean higher utility bills
ATLANTA - Georgia Power said on Wednesday that its customers' bills would rise $12 a month starting in 2018 if the utility gains state and federal approvals to build two new 1,100 megawatt nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro. That projected increase is based on the utility's $6.4 billion share of constructing the new reactors, the company said in a news release.
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Public Citizen | Press Room - Don’t Be Fooled by Nuclear Industry Shill; Environmentalists Are Not Backing New Reactors
AUSTIN, Texas – While an environmental consultant brought to Victoria to tout nuclear energy is quick to claim that a new reactor proposed for the area would be “clean and safe,” he is less likely to discuss today at a private gathering of business and community leaders his ties to the industry, which is sponsoring his speaking tour. Since 2006, Patrick Moore has been a paid spokesperson for the nuclear industry. He is co-chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, which is wholly funded by the nuclear industry lobby group, the Nuclear Energy Institute.
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Hanford News : Southwest Idaho company making millions by accepting toxic waste
Railcars loaded with 6,700 tons of radioactive waste will roll across the Treasure Valley this week, the cargo destined for a remote site south of Boise on a sagebrush-dotted plateau near the Snake River. And it won't be the first time. This scenario has occurred regularly over the past several years. The site Idaho's only public hazardous waste dump has received more than 1 million tons of radioactive materials from the federal government during the past five years.
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URS opens nuclear power plant design and construction HQ - East Bay Business Times:
URS has designed or built 49 nuclear power plants around the world. It expects most upcoming work of this type in the United States to be in the southeastern states.
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Speak now or for the next five years hold your peace
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has issued its 'Draft Supplement Analysis for the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada Test Site and Off-Site Locations in the State of Nevada.' The document, released on April 17, is the NNSA’s periodic report on the Nevada Test Site’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that was completed in 1996.
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RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - Russian uranium will be directly supplied to the United States
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Tatyana Sinitsina) - The last day of Vladimir Putin's presidency, May 6, was crowned with an impressive achievement - Russia and the United States signed an agreement on civilian uses of nuclear energy. This is an extraordinary event - the two sides waited for it for over 18 years. Experts consider this document very important and believe that it can take bilateral energy relations from the political to the economic sphere.
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Alberta faces fight for reactor
Alberta and Saskatchewan are competing to house Western Canada's first commercial nuclear power plant, Saskatchewan's Natural Resources Minister Bill Boyd confirmed Tuesday. The energy point man for the recently elected and decidedly pro-business Saskatchewan Party said his government has held "early" talks with Bruce Power LP, the private nuclear operator from western Ontario, which laid out plans in March for a $10-billion-plus nuclear complex near Peace River, in Alberta's northwest Peace Country, operating by 2017.
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NRC hits Yankee with 'noncited violation' over cooling tower: Rutland Herald Online
BRATTLEBORO — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued Entergy Nuclear a "noncited violation" for failing to follow industry recommendations last year regarding potential problems at cooling towers. A noncited violation means there will be no permanent penalty against Entergy for the Aug. 21 partial collapse of one of its cooling towers.
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The Columbus Dispatch : DOE plan for nuke waste is reshelved
WASHINGTON -- Some say a multibillion-dollar recycling center for nuclear waste would be an economic blessing for southern Ohio. Others see it as little more than a radioactive waste dump. But both sides agree on at least one thing: The Department of Energy initiative will not happen anytime soon on the grounds of the former uranium-enrichment plant in Piketon -- or perhaps anywhere else.
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Ex-Nuclear Plant Workers Want Government Compensation
TAMPA - John Pool wants to know why the U.S. Department of Labor is saying no. Pool, 79, worked at the former General Electric Plant in Largo from 1970-73. The facility produced triggers for nuclear bombs, and former employees say they may have been exposed to radiation and carcinogenic chemicals.
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Georgia Power to pay $6.4B for new nuclear reactors | ajc.com
Georgia Power will pay approximately $6.4 billion to Westinghouse Electric to build its share of two proposed 1,100-megawatt nuclear reactors at the utility's Vogtle plant south of Augusta, the utility said Wednesday. If approved, the plants promise customers higher power bills starting in 2018 . Customers would pay an additional $12 a month on a typical 1,000 kilowatt-hour bill, the company said. That amount is expected to decline over time, the company said.
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