Civil Nuclear
Tamil Nadu okays Kudankulam n-plant
Tamil Nadu Monday gave the green signal for the Kudankulam nuclear plant, with an activist saying that 10 people opposing the project have been arrested.
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Nearly 200 arrested in India nuclear protest
Police in a southern Indian state said Tuesday they had arrested nearly 200 activists who were protesting the start of work at a long-stalled nuclear power plant.
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N-power capacity failed to rise: Economic Survey
Even though the generation of nuclear power increased by 33 percent this fiscal, no capacity was added against a target of 2,000 MW, the Economic Survey said Thursday.
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India to start work on stalled nuclear plant
The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Monday gave the green light for work to start on a massive nuclear power station stalled for months amid protests over safety concerns, a report said.
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80% in Japan support nuclear phase-out: poll
Eighty percent of Japanese want to phase out the country's reliance on nuclear power and eventually eliminate it, a poll said Sunday, a year after Japan was hit by a massive nuclear disaster.
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Bulgaria PM gets cold feet on Russia nuclear plant deal
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said Friday he was considering pulling out of a deal with Russian nuclear company Atomstroyexport to build a new nuclear power plant at Belene on the Danube.
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Areva sells stake in Eramet for 776 mn euros
French nuclear energy giant Areva said Friday it had signed a deal to sell its 26 percent stake in the Eramet mining company to France's strategic…
Civil Nuclear
Power cut at reactor in S. Korea stirs criticism
South Korean nuclear officials came under fire Wednesday for failing to report a brief electricity failure at an ageing atomic power plant until more than a month after the incident.
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Poland to seek bids for first nuclear plant
Polish state-run energy group PGE said Wednesday it expected to launch a public tender to build the country's first nuclear power station within two months.
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Nuclear power crucial to China
Nuclear power is important to China because of its quest for climate change mitigation, an expert with the environment ministry has said.
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UN nuclear body says ageing reactors fuel safety concerns
Eighty percent of nuclear power plants are more than 20 years old, raising safety concerns, the UN atomic agency warned in a draft report seen by AFP on Tuesday, a year after Japan's Fukushima disaster.
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Responding to the Radiation Threat
The New York Times recently reported that in the darkest moments of the triple meltdown last year of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japanese officials considered the evacuation of the nearly 36 million residents of the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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Kolkata protest against PM comment on Kudankulam project
A group of Kolkata residents Monday held a 12-hour fast against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comments on agitations centred around the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu and wrote to him demanding the scrapping of the project.
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S. Korea opposition vows to reduce nuclear energy
South Korea's top opposition leader vowed Monday to gradually reduce the country's reliance on nuclear energy if her party gains a majority in next month's general election.
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International governance on nuclear safety still requires action
One year after the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi, the World Energy Council (WEC) will publish on Friday, 9 March, a study analysing the impact of the accident on national nuclear energy plans worldwide.
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Activists tap court to block Japan reactor restart
A group of Japanese citizens filed a lawsuit Monday to prevent the restart of a nuclear power plant, a day after the first anniversary of the tsunami that sparked the Fukushima atomic disaster.