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Nuclear Plant Closing Reflects Overhaul of German Energy Production
"The expansion of alternative energy has led to a decline in the price of raw power, rendering nuclear power plants like the one in Grafenrheinfeld, once the cash cows of the energy industry, unprofitable."
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Can the next generation of reactors spur a nuclear renaissance?
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Russian nuclear project in Finland stalls over Croatia investor
Plans to build a Russian nuclear reactor in Finland suffered a setback on Thursday afterthe government said its probe into the ownership of a Croatian investor pointed to Russia. The Croatian company reported a net profit of just $20,000 last year and has Russia-born owners, its documents and Finnish media reports showed.
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US-China Nuclear Trade Vital to American Interests
Continuing U.S. nuclear cooperation with China will support tens of thousands of American jobs for decades to come and add billions of dollars to the economy annually, the Nuclear Energy Institute told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing July 16.
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Nuclear Energy Explained: How does it work? [2015]
Nuclear Energy Explained: How does it work?
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Nuclear Expert: We should be very worried about ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima
… “Complete failure” of ice wall built to contain extremely radioactive water… Plutonium is flowing into Pacific, will for many years to come — Strontium in ocean hits record level, huge increase reported since April (VIDEO)
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Obscure Particle Could Keep Iran Honest on Its Nuclear Deal
The IAEA needs to accurately monitor Iranian nuclear power reactors to track how much nuclear weapon-grade material they have.
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Japan A-bomb Survivors Speak Out Against Nuclear Power, Decry Abe’s View of War
When Atsushi Hoshino set out to revive a group representing atomic bomb survivors in the rural northeast Japanese prefecture of Fukushima 30 years ago, one topic was taboo,criticizing the nuclear power industry upon which many relied for jobs
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Japan Restarts First Nuclear Reactor Since Fukushima Disaster
Sendai nuclear plant in southern Japan is first to begin operation since 2011 Fukushima meltdowns, despite anti-nuclear protests
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Japan Volcano Alert Raised Near Nuclear Reactor
Sakurajima volcano is 31 miles from Sendai nuclear plant, which restarted one of its reactors this week after new safety rules.
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Fukushima today: A first-person account from the field and the conference table
It has been more than four years since the east coast of Japan was hit with a trifecta: an earthquake of Magnitude 9 on the Richter scale, followed by a massive tsunami triggered by the quake’s tremors, and then the meltdown of three nuclear reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear generating complex.
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The Cold War nuke that fried satellites
A secret 50-year-old memo to the British prime minister solved this Cold War mystery. But could a similar event happen again today? Richard Hollingham investigates.
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Audit shows security gaps persist at nuclear weapons complex penetrated by nun and other activists in 2012
A $50 million security system at the Y-12 nuclear complex that stores fissile material for 10,000 nuclear bombs is still malfunctioning
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Explosion rocks nuclear power plant in Belgium
An explosion occurred overnight at a nuclear power plant in Doel, northern Belgium, local media reported, adding that the blast caused a fire. The exact damage from the incident remains unknown.
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28th November 1954 - Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, dies
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, the first man to create and control a nuclear chain reaction, and one of the Manhattan Project scientists, dies in Chicago at the age of 53.
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Germany Just Successfully Fired Up A Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Controlled nuclear fusion – a clean, near-perpetual source of energy – would revolutionize the world. In recent years, significant steps on the path to a fully operational, efficient fusion reactor have been made, and this week another milestone has been reached: German engineers from the Max Planck Institute have successfully fired up their nuclear fusion reactor, announcing that they have managed to suspend plasma for the first time.
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'Everything went well today' with German nuclear fusion device test
Scientists in Germany flipped the switch Wednesday on an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power. Following nine years of construction and testing, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald injected a tiny amount of hydrogen into a doughnut-shaped device — then zapped it with the equivalent of 6,000 microwave ovens.
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China Could Have a Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor Next Year
In what would be a milestone for advanced nuclear power, China’s Nuclear Engineering Construction Corporation plans to start up a high-temperature, gas-cooled pebble-bed nuclear plant next year in Shandong province, south of Beijing. The twin 105-megawatt reactors—so-called Generation IV reactors that would be immune to meltdown—would be the first of their type built at commercial scale in the world.
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An underground fire is burning near a nuclear waste dump, and officials say EPA has been too slow to react
Her first clue that something was wrong came as she ran her hands through her baby boy’s hair. “My child was losing his hair in clumps,” Meagan Beckermann recalls. A doctor traced the problem to alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that can be triggered by environmental factors.
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Why America abandoned nuclear power (and what we can learn from South Korea)
There's a compelling argument that the world ought to be building many more nuclear power plants. We'll need vast amounts of carbon-free energy to stave off global warming. It's not at all clear that renewables can do the job alone. And nuclear is a proven technology, already providing 11 percent of electricity globally. So what's the catch? Cost. More than safety or waste issues, cost is nuclear's Achilles' heel. Modern-day reactors have become jarringly expensive...
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