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Moorside Nuclear Power Project, Cumbria

2014-07-15 01:00:00| Power Technology

The proposed Moorside Nuclear Power Plant at Sellafield, West Cumbria, with 3.4GW net output capacity, will be the UK's biggest nuclear power station, delivering enough low-carbon electricity to power approximately six million homes.

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Nuclear power: small isnt beautiful, safe or cheap

2014-06-24 13:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: Justin McKeating, a Greenpeace blogger, has a message for the US, where the Obama administration has pledged to waste money financing the small modular reactor (SMR): nuclear power is not beautiful, safe or cheap. SMRs are supposed to be small and prefab constructed from parts made in a central location and slapped together onsite like a cheap prefab home. Those parts can then be shipped out and built by staff who dont necessarily have the skills to build larger, more complex reactors. The trouble...

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Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station

2014-06-17 01:00:00| Power Technology

The Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant being developed by Electricite de France (EDF) in Somerset is UKs first new nuclear plant in over 20 years.

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Nuclear power, natural gas drillers like Exxon Mobil surprise beneficiaries of Obama rule

2014-06-02 21:31:35| Chemicals - Topix.net

Companies that generate electric power with anything other than coal, or that produce power-saving technology, are likely to benefit from the Obama Administration's new proposed limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

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