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Areva wins 1.25bn contract for Angra 3 nuclear reactor in Brazil
2013-11-08 01:00:00| Power Technology
French company Areva has won a 1.25bn contract from Eletrobras Eletronuclear to construct the 1,405MW Angra 3 nuclear reactor in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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United States: The farce of the Hinkley C nuclear reactor will haunt Britain for decades
2013-10-21 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Seven years ago, I collected all the available cost estimates for nuclear power. The US Nuclear Energy Institute suggested a penny a kilowatt hour. The Royal Academy of Engineering confidently predicted 2.3p. The British government announced that in 2020 the price would be between 3 and 4p. The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible. It falls a penny short of the...
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Japan turns off last nuclear reactor amid fears of surge in gas prices
2013-09-16 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Japan will switch off its last nuclear reactor on Monday, amid fears that a growing dependence on gas imports there could push up electricity bills in the UK. Kansai Electric Power's only functioning reactor was scheduled to be disconnected from the power grid and then shut for planned maintenance, ending hopes that an industry that until three years ago provided 30% of the electricity to power the world's third largest economy would stage a quick recovery. Continuing problems at the Fukushima...
Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins, could provide cleaner, safer, almost-waste-free energy
2013-07-01 20:32:12| Extremetech
At a test site in Norway, Thor Energy has successfully created a thorium nuclear reactor -- but not in the sense that most people think of when they hear the word thorium. The Norwegians haven't solved the energy crisis and global warming in one fell swoop -- they haven't created a cold fusion thorium reactor. What they have done, though, which is still very cool, is use thorium instead of uranium in a conventional nuclear reactor. In one fell swoop, thorium fuel, which is safer, less messy to clean up, and not prone to nuclear weapons proliferation, could quench the complaints of nuclear power critics everywhere.
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DOE awards $3.5M for advanced nuclear reactor projects
2013-06-28 12:30:18| Green Car Congress
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