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The World Could Get Rid of Fossil Fuel Electricity in Just 25 Years with Nuclear Power
Fossil fuel electricity could be replaced with nuclear power in just 25 years, cutting worldwide human carbon emissions by half, a new analysis published to PLoS ONE finds.
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The Fukushima Cleanup Wasted Half a Billion Dollars on Bad Technology
The cleanup of Fukushima's leaking nuclear plant has been long, expensive, and plagued with problems. Now, the AP reports a government audit has found that more than a third of the budget for cleanup was wasted--totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Radioactive leak at major Ukrainian nuclear plant
A radioactive leak has been detected at Ukraine’s Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, the largest in Europe, a media report says, citing the country’s emergency services. Ukrainian officials have denied the report.
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Drone Footage Shows Derelict Remains of Chernobyl and City of Pripyat
Drone footage captures derelict remains left in the wake of Chernobyl nuclear disaster 30 years later.
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Traces of Fukushima Radiation Detected Off California Coast
Extremely low levels of radioactive cesium from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown are present in ocean water offshore Northern California, researchers announced Monday (Nov. 10).
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Local vote on restarting reactors brings Japan’s return to nuclear power closer
Japan has taken a major step towards returning to nuclear power generation with a local government decision to approve the restart of two reactors.
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Japanese scientists warn that volcano near a nuclear power plant is ready to erupt
Japan has been warned have been warned that a volcano on on the southwest island, Kyushu could erupt. A serious issue for the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) is that the Sendai nuclear plant is only 40 miles away from the dormant volcano, Mount Ioyama.
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Fukushima radiation nearing West Coast
Radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster is approaching the West Coast, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is reporting. A sample taken Aug. 2 about 1,200 kilometers west of Vancouver, B.C. tested positive for Cesium 134, the Fukushima “fingerprint” of Fukushima.
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Active volcanoes near Japan nuclear reactor are safety threat – panel
A Japanese volcanologist has refuted early claims that two nuclear reactors stationed near a hotbed of volcanic activity were safe, stating that it is impossible to predict an eruption accurately outside the time span of a few days.
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Scientists Are Bashing Lockheed Martin's Nuclear Fusion 'Breakthrough'
Could Lockheed Martin's new nuclear reactor change the world?
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Fukushima radiation still poisoning insects
Butterflies are developing physical abnormalities, raising questions about the long-term impact of the disaster
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The women living in Chernobyl's toxic wasteland
Decades after Chernobyl's nuclear disaster, despite the severely contaminated ground, government objections and the deaths of many fellow 'self-settlers’, a community of determined babushkas remains.
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Fukushima fallout: Resentment grows in nearby Japanese city
Like many of her neighbours, Satomi Inokoshi worries that her gritty hometown is being spoiled by the newcomers and the money that have rolled into Iwaki since the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost three and a half years ago.
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Scientists detect genetic abnormalities in Fukushima birds, insects
In a set of papers published Thursday in the Journal of Heredity, a U.S. publication, Japanese and U.S. scientists warned that radioactive materials released from by the core meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant could have caused abnormalities in the genes of nearby birds and insects.
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Molten salt nuclear reactor that eats radioactive waste gets funded
Transatomic Power's molten salt reactor could provide cheap and efficient power generation that uses spent fuel again. Founders Fund has invested $2 million in the company to get things moving.
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NAS Fukushima report: Accidents will happen
If there is one message to take from the National Academy of Sciences report, Lessons Learned From the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving the Safety of U.S. Nuclear Plants, released today, it is that accidents can happen, and it is essential for nuclear plant operators, regulators and public safety responders to all have plans for what to do when one does.
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Water leaks continue to plague No. 5 reactor at Fukushima plant
A leak of radioactive water was found in the piping of water used to cool the spent fuel pool in the undamaged No. 5 reactor building of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, its operator said on July 19, a sign of possible deterioration in the system.
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Radioactive Ocean Plume from Fukushima hits US West Coast - How Bad Is It?
The short answer is that no one knows. Much has been written recently about the radioactive ocean-water plume that is due to hit the west coast sometime this year, possibly as soon as next month. The problem is that although we have models that predicts its arrival, we don't know exactly what the amount of radiation will be or where along the coast the radiation will end up.
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MIT designs a floating, tsunami-proof nuclear plant
What's the safest place to put a nuclear reactor? Offshore, apparently. A new power plant design concept from MIT envisions a facility built on floating platforms, moored in deep water several miles off the coast. This, the concept's creators explain, lends it several crucial advantages -- making it virtually immune to earthquakes, tsunamis and meltdowns.
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Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly
It wasn't just people, animals and trees that were affected by radiation exposure at Chernobyl, but also the decomposers: insects, microbes, and fungi.
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