Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
South Africa could have its first nuclear power plant by the year 2020 if Cabinet approves a proposal expected to be put forward by the Ministry of Energy. Energy Minister Dipuo Peters announced on Friday that her ministry was to submit a proposal on the construction of a nuclear power plant to Cabinet next year. The [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE USE of nuclear power should be open for debate, Minister for Environment John Gormley told the climate change forum in Dublin yesterday.
Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dan Yurman has a survey of new nuclear power projects, from UAE to UK to US. All very good news, though rather “small change” in comparison to planned investment in China and India. (…) Combined with other investments in the U.K., a minimum of 12 GWe in new nuclear reactors is coming off the [...]
NEW PAPYRUS (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the November 20 Wall Street Journal Environmental Capital blog , Duke Energy boss, Jim Rogers argues that nuclear power will probably replace coal in the long run in the US by 2050. Additionally, he argues that nuclear power creates more jobs than wind and solar and at a higher level of pay: "In an operation of a nuclear plant, there [are] .64 jobs per megawatt. The wind business–and...
Atomic Insights Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have had a busy week trying to time share between a day job and at least some attendance and coverage of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting. While searching for other views of the event that I might have missed earlier in the week, I found the below segment titled Nuclear Industry Holds Winter Meeting on Future on Clean Skies News. One thing that might stick in the craw of long time members...
Atomic Insights Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fox 11 News out of Green Bay, Wisconsin has been airing a story on the future of nuclear power. The most recent segment was a journalistically balanced view about used nuclear fuel - what most people call "nuclear waste". One part of this story that bothers me is that the plant owners and their representatives apparently refused to participate in the production by allowing interviews or camera...
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
$40bn contract to build several nuclear power reactors is largest ever energy deal awarded in Mideast.
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | yesterday
The staggering cost of new nuclear power From an article by Joseph Room on Center for American Progress: A new study puts the generation costs for power from new nuclear plants at 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour—triple current U.S. electricity rates! This staggering price is far higher than the cost of a variety of carbon-free renewable power [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Six major powers say they are disappointed with Iran's response to the offer of a nuclear power deal.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Britain's largest colony of natterjack toads a rare and highly protected species is holding up plans for a nuclear power station says Geoffrey Lean.
EarthPortal (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Ian Hore-Lacy is Director for Public Communications at the World Nuclear Association, an international trade association based in London, and also Director Uranium Information, part of the Australian Uranium Association, a position he has held since 1995. Uranium Plutonium Uranium supply Nuclear fuel cycle Nuclear power reactor Nuclear waste management Advisory panel says warhead life-extension could...
Stephen Kinsella, Ph.D (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
One of the arguments in my book is that we’ll need to start buying nuclear power from the UK and France quicksmart if we’d like to have one small shred of energy security by 2050. Following a perceptive comment on an earlier thread (ht Branedy), I did some digging around and found some very interesting [...]
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
An independent expert commissioned by Greenpeace has found the two nuclear reactors currently being built in Finland and France have serious safety flaws in their design. Dr. Helmut Hirsch, Scientific Consultant for Nuclear Safety says the design of AREVA’s...
New Scientist - The Human Brain (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Report claims that the country can get all its new energy from renewable and nuclear power by 2050 while boosting economic growth
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Ministers refuse to release details of five incidents last year The government is refusing to provide details on five separate security breaches at Britain's nuclear power stations last year. The breaches have prompted accusations that ministers are suppressing damaging information at a time when they are attempting to sell the idea of more nuclear power stations. Earlier this month, 10 new sites...
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Juan Trevino | 02/10/2009
Florida Power and Light (FPL) continues to seek authorization from Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) to raise their fees. The rate hikes if approved some time in January 2010, could provide FPL and additional 1.3 billion USD in profits per year. During 2008, FPL made 1.6 billion in profits but their management believes these are not sufficient for their shareholders, and this is the reason why...
abdulruff | 07/07/2009
Scope of Obama-Medvedev Discourse in Moscow - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal US, Russian Presidents Obama and Medvedev are in Moscow for their first full-fledged summit on major global issues and world is expected to approach the upcoming summit...
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abdulruff | 28/06/2009
Russia-Africa Ties: Kremlin proposes Mideast Meet -By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal 1. A continent not known for any extra energy resources, Africa has been ignored by neo-imperialist USA and European states who other wise speak about lack of "democracy" and seek "regime changes" for advancing their resources goal don't bother about...
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