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Japan 'too slow to tackle nuclear leak'
2013-09-25 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Gregory Jaczko, former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, accused Japanese officials of losing their "focus' despite being aware of the leakages since early in the crisis. "It's been known for a long time that this would be an issue,' he told media at a press conference in Tokyo. "My biggest surprise is to some extent how it's been allowed to deteriorate, a little bit, and how it's almost become a surprise again that there are contamination problems, that there is leakage out into...
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Japan's Chubu Electric to apply for nuclear plant safety approval
2013-09-25 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's Chubu Electric Power Co said on Wednesday it will apply for safety approvals of the No. 4 reactor at its sole Hamaoka nuclear plant by the end of March 2014, aiming to restart the facility which was shut after the Fukushima crisis due to fears it was vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis. Japan's third-biggest utility, serving the heart of Japan's auto industry in central Japan, shut the Hamaoka plant, located in a higly earthquake-prone region 200 km (120 miles) southwest of Tokyo, in...
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DTE Energy restarts Fermi 2 nuclear power plant
2013-09-24 19:01:22| Energy - Topix.net
DTE Energy Co. has restarted its Fermi 2 nuclear power plant after reinstalling a reactor cooling water pump that had failed and limited power output.
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First US nuclear power closures 15 yrs signal wider industry problems
2013-09-24 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A string of plant closures, project cancellations and other setbacks has raised new doubts about the future of nuclear power in the United States, but there's disagreement about whether the retrenchment will be limited and temporary or the beginning of a broad and permanent decline. Renewed safety concerns and reinvigorated local opposition have played a role in the industry's recent troubles. But the most potent foe--and the primary force behind the spate of closures and abandoned projects--is...
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Regulators propose to cite utility for flaw in generators at shuttered Calif. nuclear plant
2013-09-24 03:39:22| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Federal regulators announced Monday they are considering slapping a California utility with two violations for problems that eventually led to the permanent closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant.
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