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The Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team produces Nuclear Power Daily's coverage of nuclear energy. We report on reactors and small modular reactors, the fuel cycle, waste and safety, policy, and fusion research. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Nuclear Power Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

A Russian View Of The Quake-Hit Japanese Nuclear Plant

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 25, 2007 - An earthquake hit the city of Kashiwazaki in Honshu last week, causing an estimated $33.3 billion worth of damage. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, one of Japan's largest, was in the earthquake zone. Radioactive substance leakage is reported. Japanese authorities and public are attacking the Tokyo Electric Power Company after it refused to give information on the danger. The alarm was sounded at the other end of the world, in the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, its Director General, says he hopes TEPCO will not withhold any facts from investigation.

Jul 25, 2007

IAEA To Visit Japanese Quake-Hit Nuclear Plant, As Car Production Plummets

Vienna (AFP) July 24, 2007 - The UN's nuclear watchdog agency said Tuesday it would send a team of experts to Japan in the next few weeks to examine a nuclear power plant damaged during a deadly earthquake on July 16. The IAEA intends to send a team of IAEA and international experts in the coming weeks to examine the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant northwest of Tokyo, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.

Jul 24, 2007

Energy Industry Gears Up For Nuclear Renaissance

Mcclean Lake (AFP) Canada, July 24, 2007 - Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster poisoned the world's taste for reactors, a French firm is sniffing out fresh uranium supplies in Canada. And the race for nuclear power is back on. After the deadly Chernobyl reactor explosion in Ukraine in 1986 and a lesser scare at the Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania that rattled the United States in 1979, people were wondering whether nuclear power even had a future, said Yves Dufour, one of the directors of Areva, the world's leading civilian nuclear power provider.

Jul 24, 2007

UN To Inspect Japan Radiation Site

Tokyo (AFP) Jul 23, 2007 - Japan will let UN inspectors visit its largest nuclear plant in hopes of easing international concern after an earthquake caused a radiation leak, officials said Monday. The government has told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) it can send a mission to the plant around 250 kilometres (150 miles) northwest of Tokyo.

Jul 23, 2007

Sarkozy Wants All-French Energy Giant

Berlin (AFP) Jul 23, 2007 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to kick Germany out of a Franco-German nuclear engineering joint venture to create an all-French energy giant, a German magazine reported Saturday. Sarkozy wants to buy Siemens AG's 34 percent stake in Areva NP, a joint venture set up in 2001 with French nuclear group Areva, Wirtschaftswoche said in an article to appear on Monday, citing company sources.

Jul 23, 2007

Russian Activists Denounce Cover-Up On Nuclear Protest Attack

Moscow (AFP) July 23, 2007 - Russian activists on Monday denounced what they said was a police cover-up over the killing of a protester near a Siberian nuclear facility over the weekend. The activist group Autonomous Action, which organised the protest, said in a statement there had been insistent requests from police and prosecutors to camp participants ... not to make a fuss and to avoid speaking to journalists group said the raid on the camp on Saturday, which left one protester dead and seven others in hospital, was not carried out by ordinary hooligans, but was a planned attack by Nazis.

Jul 23, 2007

Russia Opens The Door To Foreign Nuclear Investment And Technology

London UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2007 - While investment opportunities still exist in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector of the Russian energy industry for the construction of gas liquefaction plants, the Government has turned its focus on the nuclear power generation sector. The idea is to attract significant foreign investment by diversifying and transmitting nuclear energy through the establishment of various nuclear plants and other technologies.

Jul 23, 2007

Japan Agrees To UN Inspection Of Quake-Hit Nuke Plant

Tokyo (AFP) Jul 23, 2007 - Japan has agreed to let UN experts inspect its largest nuclear power plant, which leaked radiation after a powerful earthquake, causing a scare, a report said. Kyodo News said the industry ministry has told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) it will agree to the inspection of the plant some 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of Tokyo. No officials could immediately be reached late Sunday to confirm the report, which quoted unnamed government officials.

Jul 23, 2007

India And US Close To Finalizing Nuclear Cooperation Deal

New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Jul 23, 2007 - India and the United States said they had made significant progress on a major agreement in the sphere of civilian nuclear cooperation after four days of intensive negotiations that ended Friday in Washington. We had a constructive and positive discussion, both sides said in a statement. We will now refer the issue to our governments for final review.

Jul 23, 2007

German Nuclear Plant Shut Over Cooling Failures

Berlin (AFP) Jul 23, 2007 - A German nuclear plant that was shutdown last month prompting criticism of its Swedish operator was on Saturday stopped indefinitely to allow for further security checks, officials said. Nuclear safety experts found failures in the emergency cooling system at Brunsbuettel plant, an official in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein said. The plant was disconnected from the main electricity network after it became overloaded on June 28, although it continued to produce power for its own use.

Jul 23, 2007

Constellation Energy And EDF Form Joint Venture For Next-Generation Nuclear Facilities

Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 23, 2007 - Constellation Energy and EDF have announced a strategic joint venture focused on the potential development and deployment of the first fleet of new nuclear power plants in the United States and Canada in nearly three decades. Constellation Energy and EDF will form a new nuclear holding company, known as UniStar Nuclear Energy, LLC, designed to develop, own and operate new U.S. and Canadian nuclear projects.

Jul 23, 2007

Algae The Misunderstood Answer To Our Fuel And Global Warming Problems

San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2007 - Green Star Products President, Joseph LaStella, stated Today we are closer than ever before solving our energy and global warming issues. The solution is 'ALGAE', one of the oldest forms of life on Earth. Algae-to-biofuels is quickly becoming a hot item. Unfortunately, like many new technology trends nonsense prevails and uninformed investors follow the yellow brick road. However, there is reality emerging.

Jul 23, 2007

Russian Anti-Nuclear Activist Killed In Attack

Moscow (AFP) July 21, 2007 - A Russian environmental activist died on Saturday after armed attackers raided a protesters' camp outside a nuclear facility in Siberia, officials and activists said. One of some 20 protesters at the tent camp told AFP the attackers were skinheads who had used baseball bats, hammers, metal rods and an axe during the raid near the Angarsk uranium enrichment plant.

Jul 21, 2007

Japan Urges Power-Saving After Nuclear Shutdown

Tokyo (AFP) July 20, 2007 - Japan on Friday asked businesses to save on energy during peak hours this summer after a powerful earthquake led to the closure of the country's largest nuclear power plant, officials said. The order came as authorities said that heat was contributing to illness among elderly people staying in shelters after Monday's powerful earthquake, which killed 10 people and injured more than 1,000 more.

Jul 20, 2007

Energy Worries Grow For Japan As Nuclear Plant Shut

Tokyo (AFP) July 19, 2007 - Worries about energy supply in Japan grew Thursday as officials said an earthquake-hit nuclear plant would stay shut at least for the summer amid fresh safety fears. The powerful earthquake killed 10 people, injured more than 1,000 and destroyed hundreds of buildings, forcing Japan's fast-growing automakers to curtail production. Measuring 6.8 on the Richter-scale, it struck just nine kilometres (five miles) from the world's largest nuclear power plant, where smoke billowed for hours and a small amount of radioactive water leaked.

Jul 19, 2007

Vattenfall Europe Chief Quits After German Nuclear Incidents

Berlin (AFP) Jul 18, 2007 - The head of Vattenfall Europe, an arm of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall, resigned Wednesday after a series of incidents, including a fire, at two of the group's German nuclear power plants. Vattenfall Europe chief Klaus Rauscher has offered to step down from his position, the company said in a statement which named Hans-Juergen Cramer, a member of Vattenfall's German management, as acting head of the company's European activities.

Jul 18, 2007