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Hinkley nuclear reactor project gains EU approval, leak reveals
2014-09-22 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: British plans for a nuclear renaissance centred on a nuclear reactor in Somerset achieved a breakthrough when a nine-month European Union state aid investigation ended with a call for Brussels to approve the project. The EUs competition commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, had expressed scepticism that the Hinkley Point C scheme could satisfy the EUs stringent state aid criteria after the UK government agreed to underwrite the project with a loan guarantee and a commitment on the price of the electricity...
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UPDATE 1-Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor delayed until late 2018
2014-09-01 10:25:17| Paper - Topix.net
Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor will be delayed until late 2018, construction consortium Areva-Siemens said, prompting a disgruntled statement from its client Teollisuuden Voima .
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Activists hail San Onofre nuclear power plant reactor shutdown
2014-08-28 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: America's nuclear reactor fleet moved deeper into middle-aged crisis on Friday when operators decide to shut down two reactors at the troubled San Onofre power plant in California. They were the third and fourth reactors to be permanently retired this year, underlining the harsh economics facing America's ageing fleet of nuclear reactors, forced to pay for expensive upkeep at a time of increased competition from cheap natural gas and renewable energy. The two reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear...
Molten salt nuclear reactor that eats radioactive waste gets funded
2014-08-15 13:31:14| Extremetech
Transatomic Power's molten salt reactor could provide cheap and efficient power generation that uses spent fuel again. Founders Fund has invested $2 million in the company to get things moving.
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2 billion-year-old African nuclear reactor proves that Mother Nature still has a few tricks up her sleeve
2014-05-01 16:42:47| Extremetech
There has only ever been one natural nuclear reactor found, but study of how it worked, and why, is still informing nuclear decision-making to this very day.