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Japan Quake Sparks New Fears Over Atomic Energy

Kashiwazaki (AFP) Jul 18, 2007 - Japanese people are used to seeing injured people and destroyed homes after major quake. But the latest disaster brought something new and frightening -- black smoke billowing from a nuclear plant. The scene has shaken Japanese confidence in nuclear power plants and led the government to order that the largest one in the world stay shut, despite a potential energy shortage in the peak summer months.

Jul 18, 2007

Japan Quake Triggered Dozens Of Faults At Nuclear Plant

Kashiwazaki (AFP) Jul 18, 2007 - Authorities in Japan were Tuesday investigating a second nuclear scare and dozens of other problems discovered at a massive power plant following a deadly earthquake. Fires, leakages of water and oil, misplaced duct pipes and broken equipment, have been recorded since the 6.8 magnitude quake hit the area of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility on Monday, its operator said.

Jul 18, 2007

US And India Identify Solutions To Salvage Nuclear Deal

Washington DC (AFP) Jul 18, 2007 - The United States and India have identified possible solutions to issues hampering a final accord on a landmark bilateral civilian nuclear deal, the State Department said Wednesday. The two powers have been for two years trying to devise a comprehensive agreement under which the United States would provide nuclear technology and fuel after agreeing in principle to reverse three decades of sanctions.

Jul 18, 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

Russia Will Build Floating Nuclear Power Plants

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2007 - Since 2006, Sevmash, the main company of the Russian State Nuclear Shipbuilding Center, has been working to complete a floating nuclear power plant in northern Russia that will be launched in 2010 and moored in a nearby harbor. This technological marvel will raise quite a few eyebrows and cause widespread apprehension, because the world still fears everything connected with nuclear power.

Jul 17, 2007

IAEA Develops New Strategy To Recover Orphan Radioactive Sources

Rochester, MN (SPX) Jul 16, 2007 - Inadequate accounting for radioactive sources is a problem that spans the globe. Orphaned sources include radioactive sources that were once useful but have sense been forgotten, lost or discarded mistakenly. These sources are commonly found in medical, industrial and research settings.

Jul 16, 2007

Leak At Japanese Nuclear Plant After Quake

Kashiwazaki, Japan (AFP) Jul 16, 2007 - A powerful earthquake in Japan triggered a small leak of radioactive material Monday from one of the world's largest nuclear plants, the operator said. The deadly 6.8 Richter-scale earthquake also ignited a fire at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility, the largest nuclear plant in a nation with strict safety regulations.

Jul 16, 2007

Natural Gas And Uranium Discovered In Uganda

Kampala (AFP) Jul 15, 2007 - An oil exploration company discovered natural gas in western Uganda while prospecting for oil, the energy ministry said Sunday, adding that uranium prospects had also been found at three sites across the country. The Irish exploration company Tullow Oil PLC chanced on gas in the Hoima district last week, the energy ministry's permanent secretary Kalisa Kabagambe told AFP.

Jul 15, 2007

Kazakhstan Offers To Join International Fusion Power Project

Tokyo (RIA Novosti) Jul 13, 2007 - Participants in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project (ITER) will consider Kazakhstan's offer to join the construction of a fusion power reactor in France, a Russian official said Thursday.

Jul 13, 2007

Lula Resumes Nuclear Program To Make Brazil World Power

Sao Paulo (AFP) Jul 11, 2007 - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday relaunched the country's nuclear program, promising to complete a nuclear submarine and a third atomic power plant both mothballed 20 years ago. Brazil could rank among those few nations in the world with a command of uranium enrichment technology, and I think we will be more highly valued as a nation -- as the power we wish to be, Lula said at the navy's Technological Center in Sao Paulo.

Jul 11, 2007

Wyle And ARES Sign Teaming Agreement To Pursue Nuclear Energy Industry Business

El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2007 - Wyle Laboratories and ARES Corporation have signed a teaming agreement to jointly pursue commercial nuclear equipment qualification optimization programs for new nuclear power plant construction and U.S. Department of Energy facilities with the goal of significantly reducing costs to its customers.

Jul 11, 2007

Bush And Singh Discuss Nuclear Pact

Washington (AFP) Jul 11, 2007 - US President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday discussed the US-India nuclear agreement and efforts to promote global trade, the White House said. The two leaders spoke by phone this morning and discussed the transformation of our bilateral relationship, including the civil nuclear cooperation initiative, said national security spokesman Gordon Johndroe.

Jul 11, 2007

Inexpensive Adaptive Optics Achieved By Sandia’s Optical Clamp

Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jul 11, 2007 - The ingenious system called adaptive optics, known for its computer control of subdivided, individually angled mirrors, is an efficient but expensive way to correct distortions in laser beams. The mirrors automatically adjust until an undistorted beam is obtained in a way formerly thought unachievable by a single large mirror.

Jul 11, 2007

Energy Company Under Fire For Covering Up Nuclear Plant Problem

Berlin (AFP) Jul 08, 2007 - German authorities on Sunday slammed Swedish energy giant Vattenfall Europe for waiting several days to declare problems at a nuclear power plant in northern Germany. The Brunsbuettel plant in the state of Schleswig-Holstein had to be temporarily shut down on June 28 because its capacity was overloaded.

Jul 8, 2007

Activists Demand Full Details Of German Nuclear Plant Fire

Kiel, Germany (AFP) Jul 04, 2007 - Environmentalists on Wednesday blasted an energy company for failing to reveal the full extent of a fire last week at a German nuclear power plant. The German branch of Friends of the Earth, BUND, demanded from European energy group Vattenfall full transparency in the investigation of the causes of the fire and possible dangers. A company spokesman dismissed the criticism, saying it had provided quick and comprehensive information on the accident to the authorities.

Jul 4, 2007

Rice Exudes Confidence Of Wrapping Up The Nuke Deal By Year End

Washington (ANI) Jul 01, 2007 - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has expressed confidence of finalisation of the Indo-US civilian nuclear energy cooperation by the end of this year. Speaking at the 32nd anniversary celebrations of the United States India Business Council (USIBC) on Wednesday, Rice said: But with will and determination and more hard work to do, I am certain that we will reach final agreement and be in a position to complete this (nuclear) deal by the end of the year.

Jul 1, 2007