Nuclear Power

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 13 mins ago - 4 reports

Iran Is Seen Advancing Nuclear Bid

International nuclear inspectors reported on Wednesday that Iran had increased its nuclear production while negotiations with the West dragged on this spring, but the new information suggested that Tehran had not gone past the “red line” that Israel’s ... [Published Foundation for Defense of Democracies - 13 mins ago]

Entities: Iran, Nuclear, Centrifuge, Uranium, Enrichment

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 24 mins ago - 3 reports

Westinghouse Electric Co

Westinghouse appoints Jeffrey Benjamin senior VP for Nuclear Power Plants division

Westinghouse Electric Co. announced Thursday that it has appointed Jeffrey Benjamin as senior vice president for Nuclear Power Plants, effective May 31. In this position, Benjamin will lead Westinghouse efforts to meet existing new plant customer needs ... [Published Power Engineering - 24 mins ago]

Entities: Nuclear Power Plant, Nuclear, Westinghouse Electric Co, Appointed

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Vattenfall AB

Vattenfall upgrades Swedish nuclear reactors

Vattenfall has upgraded the nuclear reactors at its Forsmark and Ringhals power plants in Sweden. ... [Published Penn Energy - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Nuclear Reactor, Vattenfall AB, Power Plant

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 3 reports

European Union

U.N. report stokes concern over Iran's nuclear programme - EU

It "further aggravates existing concerns on the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear programme", a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said.Critics say Iran is trying to achieve the capability to make atomic arms. Iran ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Iran, Nuclear, European Union, IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 9 reports

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

U.N. report stokes concern over Iran's nuclear programme - EU

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran's expansion of sensitive nuclear activity breaks United Nations resolutions and increases concerns about whether its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful, the European Union said on Thursday. A U.N. nuclear agency report released ... [Published Sharenet - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Iran, Nuclear, IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency, European Union

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 4 reports

Hitachi Ltd

Fallon: Horizon nuclear project will boost investment and jobs

The UK Government has hailed the Horizon nuclear power project claiming it would help boost new investment and create thousands of jobs across the country.Energy Minister Michael Fallon is set to meet executives from Hitachi and Horizon today, who are ... [Published Energy Live News - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Nuclear, Michael Fallon, Hitachi Ltd, United Kingdom

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 3 reports

Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc

Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 21st to May 22nd, 2013

Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Nuclear Regulation Authority Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced this week that it will accept findings from a panel ... [Published Greenpeace news - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Fukushima I Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant, Reactor, Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, Radiation

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 3 reports

US House cmte. adopts new anti-Iran act

A US congressional panel has adopted a new measure to tighten the country’s illegal sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear energy program.The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday passed an anti-Iran act that targets ... [Published Press tv - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Anti-Iranian, Iran, IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency, Adoption, Nuclear Power

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 11 reports

News Summary: Nuclear plant sits on active fault

FINDING FAULT: Japan's nuclear watchdog backed the conclusion of a panel of experts that found a seismic fault running underneath one of two reactors at an atomic plant in western Japan is active, making the reactor's restart virtually impossible.NO NUKES: ... [Published Washington Examiner - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Nuclear, Reactor, Japan

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 4 reports

Indo-Japan N-deal awaits July polls results

India hopes that Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s expected sweep of upper house elections in July will pave the way for the final signing of a bilateral civil nuclear agreement. While Tokyo supported the Indo-US nuclear deal and the exemption that ... [Published Hindustan Times - 20 hours ago]

Entities: India, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear Suppliers Group

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 6 reports

Greenpeace drops item on Swedish reactor from glider to make point

"As evidenced by the new stress test, Swedish nuclear power plants are both vulnerable and unprotected from threats - antagonistic or accidental - from the air," Annika Jacobson, head of Greenpeace in Sweden.The motorized paraglider dropped an item attached ... [Published Kansas City Star - May 22 2013]

Entities: Greenpeace International, Reactor, Annika Jacobson, Nuclear

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 11 reports

Japan's solar surge finds a new gear

Japan had some optimistic economic news last week showing that the country's GDP expanded by 0.9 per cent last quarter – its quickest pace in a year.The data suggest that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive stimulus measures may be working. They certainly ... [Published Business Spectator - May 22 2013]

Entities: Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, Reactor

Quotes

The issue of spent fuel storage is no small matter. Last July, in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, an Illinois Republican said "Limerick has 1,143 metric tons of uranium spent fuel on site. At Limerick, the waste is stored above the ground in pools and in casks." Spent fuel rods remain radioactive for hundreds, and some say, thousands of years

Limerick nuclear relicensing hearings invite public input [Published Daily Local News - 2 hours ago]

...an increasingly cautious approach [to Visaginas] and have not guaranteed that they will take part in its realization," the newspaper wrote. "For that reason, Lithuanian politicians have been increasingly active in looking in the direction of Poland. They are trying to convince Poland to return to the nuclear power project."

Estonia proclaims pan-Baltic nuclear plant project is dead [Published Business New Europe - 5 hours ago]

It "further aggravates existing concerns on the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear programme" , a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said

U.N. report stokes concern over Iran's nuclear programme - EU [Published NewsRT.co.uk - 6 hours ago]

"All we want is for them to accept the scientific findings that there is an active and potentially dangerous fault beneath that reactor" Matsukubo said

Row rages over safety of Japanese nuclear plant [Published Deutsche Welle - 6 hours ago]

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