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Scientists set to demolish Sellafield chimney on site of Britains worst nuclear accident
2013-09-06 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Demolition has begun on the site of Britains worst nuclear accident, as scientists are brought in to dismantle the infamous Sellafield chimney. The 110-metre structure on the old Windscale plutonium-producing plant at Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria will finally be cleaned up more than half a century since a fire broke out in its graphite core, in late 1957. It is being dismantled after site managers said the radioactivity had now decayed to safe enough levels to work in. Steve...
Finland seeks lessons after Fukushima on nuclear complacency culture
2013-09-06 09:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Finland is pushing to ensure that complacency does not threaten its nuclear safety record as it builds new reactors despite the Fukushima disaster, which has made some other European states think twice about atomic energy. The head of Finland's nuclear safety body, Petteri Tiippana, said cultural as well as technical lessons had to be learnt from the crisis in Japan, the worst in a quarter of a century. "It was said in a report in Japan that the underlying causes of the accident had to do with...
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Fukushima farce reveals nuclear industry's fatal flaw
2013-09-04 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Once upon a time, when the nuclear industry was shiny and new, it simply burned uranium. Now, old and tarnished, it burns money. From the promise of nuclear electricity being too cheap to meter, we now have costs that are too great to count. At the site of the Fukushima meltdown in Japan, the government is being forced to spend over 200m on a fanciful-sounding underground ice wall in the latest desperate attempt to halt the radiation-contaminated water that is leaking into the sea. When mere...
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Japan to Build $320mil Ice Wall Around Fukushima Nuclear Plant
2013-09-03 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: In an attempt to stop contaminated water from leaking out of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and entering the flow of groundwater that empties into the ocean, Japanese government announced Tuesday a plan to build a costly "ice wall" around the crippled nuclear plant. At at cost of 32 billion yen (about $320 million) the underground ice wall will theoretically prevent contaminated groundwater from flowing out to sea by freezing the soil. Freezing the ground as a method of pollution control...
Fire put out at AZ nuclear plant
2013-09-03 20:12:15| Energy - Topix.net
The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station declared an unusual event when oil-soaked insulation behind a water pump caught fire, officials said Tuesday.
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