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41 min ago | State Department

Speeches: Geopolitics and Nuclear Energy: The View from the State Department

Thank you for that introduction and thank you for having me here today. It is a pleasure to talk to the principal nuclear industry organization in the United States.

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Related Topix: Environment, Science

2 hrs ago | KUOW-FM Seattle

Japanese Officials Visit Hanford For Nuclear Cleanup Strategies

The people overseeing the cleanup of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster are learning some valuable lessons from the long-running cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

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Related Topix: Richland, WA

3 hrs ago | MLive.com

Palisades Nuclear Power Plant will remain closed until 'early summer' ...

For nuclear power plants, the question of whether to replace vs. repair isn't as simple a call as, say, buying a new car after the old one wears out, an independent nuclear safety expert explained.

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Related Topix: Covert, MI, Energy, Entergy, US Politics, Fred Upton, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Activism, St. Joseph, MI

7 hrs ago | StamfordPlus.com

Murphy calls for national plan for spent nuclear fuel storage

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy announced his support for a bill being crafted in the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that would establish a new nuclear waste administration and create a consent-based process for siting nuclear waste facilities.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Chris Murphy

12 hrs ago | KHGI

Firm to appeal nuclear plant whistleblower case

An engineering firm says it plans to appeal a decision by federal regulators in favor of a whistleblower allegedly fired for reporting unsafe conditions at a nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas.

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Related Topix: OSHA

15 hrs ago | Energy Tribune

Japan Looks to Resume Nuclear Energya

Japan is considering resuming talks with India on bilateral cooperation in nuclear energy, the government's top spokesman said Monday.

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Related Topix: Manmohan Singh

20 hrs ago | WLOS

Here is the latest North Carolina news from The Associated Press

The shutdown of a nuclear power plant outside North Carolina's capital city is likely to prompt questions at a meeting today with federal regulators.

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Related Topix: Asheboro, NC, Randolph County, NC, Raleigh, NC

Mon May 20, 2013

WSOCTV

Crack found on one nuclear reactor in Wake Co.

Monday night, nuclear regulators tried to calm fears about a huge crack found on one of Duke Energy's nuclear reactors in Wake County.

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Related Topix: Energy, Duke Energy

Chosun Ilbo

U.S. to Replace Point Man in Nuclear Talks with Seoul

South Korea and the U.S. will resume talks to revise a restrictive bilateral nuclear energy treaty in Seoul on June 3. The talks will be the first round since the two countries agreed to extend the current treaty, which expires in March 2014, by two years while they try to iron out their differences.

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Related Topix: South Korea, World News

Lake Wylie Pilot

NRC to talk safety assessment of SC nuclear plant

Federal nuclear regulators are meeting with managers from Westinghouse Electric Co.

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Related Topix: Lake Wylie, SC

Business Journal

South Texas Project and other plants contribute to boost in nuclear output

U.S. nuclear-power output increased to its highest level in 10 weeks as the South Texas Nuclear Project and other plants returned to production after maintenance closures, according to a Bloomberg analysis of Nuclear Regulatory Commission data.

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BBC News

Nuclear reactor 'may run until 2015'

The planned shut down of Britain's oldest nuclear reactor on Anglesey could be extended by 15 months if safety inspectors approve the work, says its operator.

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Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Feds again delay San Onofre nuke restart decision

Federal regulators have indefinitely delayed a decision on the proposed restart of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in California, raising new questions Monday about whether the twin reactors will produce electricity again.

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Related Topix: Energy, Southern California Edison

Russia Taday

E.On Russia to transfer 100% of 2012's net profit into dividends

E.On Russia, the Russian subsidiary of Germany's E.On power company, will transfer 100% of the net profit the energy company made in 2012, some $583 million into dividends, marking a record for the Russian domestic electricity market.

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Related Topix: World News, Russia, Asia, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Business Journal

MIT to cut nuclear fusion program

A program that explores nuclear fusion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is shutting down, after its U.S. funding was cut.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Russia Taday

Rice seeds sown in former Fukushima evacuation zone

Farmers in Fukushima have started planting rice in the former radioactive no-go zone, as close as 15 km from the TEPCO plant which suffered a meltdown in March 2011.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Life, Food, Seafood

Xinhuanet

Algeria plans to build its 1st nuclear plant in 2025

Algeria plans to build its first nuclear plant in 2025 to cope with the country's soaring electricity consumption, the official APS news agency reported Sunday, citing Minister of Energy and Mines, Yousef Yousfi.

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A-Infos Radio Project

Medical & Ecological Consequences: Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown, Segment 1

Day 2 - Afternoon session continues examination of the Fukushima and Chernoble disasters as they relate to North America.

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Sun May 19, 2013

Reuters

Taiwan protesters blast nuclear power

Protesters in Taiwan rally against nuclear energy. Hundreds flooded the streets of Taipei on Sunday to demand that the government halt the construction of a controversial nuclear power plant.

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Related Topix: World News, Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou

New Scientist

We can let fission fizzle out in a renewable world

AT THE start of this year Germany officially entered the Dark Ages again - at least according to its state weather service.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology