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Fukushima official Twitter tirade under fire in Japan
A public official charged with helping victims of Japan's nuclear disaster who launched a foul-mouthed Twitter tirade faced calls to quit Thursday.
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EU wants six-yearly post-Fukushima nuclear stress tests
The European Commission called for stress tests every six years on the dozens of nuclear reactors operating in the European Union as it issued new safety rules in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster.
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Japan’s first lady says she is ‘anti-nuclear’
The wife of Japan's pro-business Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not like nuclear power and would rather her husband's government did not try to export it, she said in a speech.
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Japan PM to step up nuclear export drive: report
Japan's prime minister is expected to sign a nuclear cooperation deal with the Czech Republic this month, a report said Saturday, as Tokyo looks to build up its exports of the technology.
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Upgrades ordered for U.S. reactors
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered nearly a third of the nation's nuclear reactors to upgrade their venting systems.
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Glitch-hit US nuclear plant shut down for good
A California nuclear power plant shut down last year after a radiation leak will be permanently closed, its owners said Friday.
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S. Korea’s top nuclear plant operator sacked
South Korea on Thursday fired the head of the state-run company that oversees the country's 23 nuclear reactors over a forged documentation scandal that has shut a host of those reactors down.
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Japan’s Fukushima operator admits culpability in suicide
Japan's Tokyo Electric Power has conceded the Fukushima disaster played a part in a farmer's suicide, lawyers said Thursday, its first admission of culpability in such a case.
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Australia seeks to boost uranium sector
Australia's Resource Minister has called for ramping up the country's uranium sector.
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Russia woos new Bulgaria cabinet to resume nuclear project
Russia tried Wednesday to woo Bulgaria's new government to re-start a project for a new nuclear power plant on the Danube, offering to drop a one-billion-euro ($1.3 billion) arbitration case.
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S. Korea, US hold talks on key nuclear accord
South Korea and the United States began extended negotiations Monday on renewing their civilian nuclear pact, with Seoul pushing for the right to produce its own nuclear fuel.
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Thousands rally against nuclear power in Tokyo
Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators rallied in the Japanese capital Tokyo on Sunday as conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe considers restarting reactors.
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TEPCO seeks yet more cash for Fukushima payouts
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will ask for more public money to pay compensation, a report said Friday, taking its total cash handouts to an eye-watering $38 billion.
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S. Korea PM vows tough penalties over reactor scam
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won vowed Friday to mete out severe penalties to anyone involved in a forged documentation scandal that has shut down a host of nuclear reactors.
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Despite safety and other concerns, nuclear power saves lives, greenhouse gas emissions
Global use of nuclear power has prevented about 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths and release of 64 billion tons of greenhouse gases that would have resulted from burning coal and other fossil fuels, a new study concludes.
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UAE begins construction of second nuclear reactor
The oil-rich UAE began construction on Tuesday of a second nuclear power plant, one of four reactors aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by some 12…