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Germany to scrap nuclear power by 2022
Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022.
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May 30, 2011 |
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EU, Japan join forces to improve nuclear safety
Europe and Japan agreed Saturday to join forces in efforts to promote tighter international standards for nuclear safety in the wake of the atomic crisis in Japan.
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May 29, 2011 |
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Japanese PM pledges 10 mn solar-powered homes
Japan will have ten million solar-powered homes, Prime Minister Naoto Kan pledged Wednesday, as the country makes a major push in coming years towards renewable energy following its nuclear crisis. ...
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May 25, 2011 |
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Switzerland opposes building further nuclear power plants
The Swiss government on Wednesday recommended to parliament that the country's five nuclear power plants should not be replaced as they age, leaving them to be phased out by 2034.
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May 25, 2011 |
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Simple method of dealing with harmful radioactive iodine discovered
A novel way to immobilise radioactive forms of iodine using a microwave, has been discovered by an expert at the University of Sheffield.
May 24, 2011 |
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Facing up to Fukushima
In the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima reactor, Japan and other nations are re-evaluating their attitude to nuclear energy. Cambridge academic Tony Roulstone believes it is vital for governments and ...
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May 23, 2011 |
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British electricity pylons to get a makeover
Electricity pylons across the British countryside may soon cease to be eyesores thanks to a government backed competition for a new design.
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May 23, 2011 |
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Neutrons provide first sub-nanoscale snapshots of Huntington's disease protein
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural formation of the disease type ...
May 18, 2011 |
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EU nuclear safety testing row in meltdown
Fractious talks on testing the safety of European nuclear reactors broke down Thursday as calls to include terror attacks and other man-made disasters in the tests faced resistance from powerful nuclear lobbies ...
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May 12, 2011 |
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Why nuclear power will never supply the world's energy needs
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 440 commercial nuclear reactors in use worldwide are currently helping to minimize our consumption of fossil fuels, but how much bigger can nuclear power get? In an analysis to be published ...
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May 11, 2011 |
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EU nuclear safety sweep accused of soft-pedalling
Europe on Wednesday will draw up stress-test parameters for a safety sweep of its nuclear power reactors, promised after Japan's Fukushima No.1 disaster, but already the focus of bitter disputes.
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May 09, 2011 |
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Japan's Toshiba returns to black
Japan's Toshiba on Monday said it returned to the black for the year to March, but warned the outlook remains uncertain due to the impact of the massive quake and tsunami in March.
May 09, 2011 |
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Cracks found in protective casings at Bulgaria nuclear plant
Cracks were detected in the protective casings of a number of control rods at Bulgaria's sole nuclear plant, but there has been no release of radioactivity, the plant's operator said Thursday.
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May 05, 2011 |
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Speeding swarms of sensor robots
Concerns about the spread of radiation from damaged Japanese nuclear reactors — even as scientists are still trying to assess the consequences of the year-old Deepwater Horizon oil spill — have provided ...
May 03, 2011 |
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Chernobyl nuke cleanup to be costly for decades
(AP) -- A quarter-century after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion, a week of meetings on the world's worst nuclear accident pressed home the message that the Chernobyl cleanup will remain expensive ...
Apr 22, 2011 |
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