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Areva faces 50 pct cost rise for Finnish nuclear reactor

French nuclear group Areva is facing a 50 percent rise to the cost of building the world's first next-generation pressurised water reactor in Finland, the business daily Les Echos reported Thursday. The cost of constructing the plant at Olkiluoto has risen from three billion to 4.5 billion euros (6.7 billion dollars), the paper reported citing an unidentified source.

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  • Published: 08/28/2008

Nuclear plant workers evacuated

Human error is being blamed for a radiation spike at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant that prompted the evacuation of about a dozen workers from the main reactor building for about two hours.

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  • Published: 08/28/2008

LA Times Letter to the Editor

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  • Published: 08/14/2008

FRANCE'S NUCLEAR CONUNDRUM - Atomic World Champ on the Ropes

France is proud of having the world's most developed nuclear energy infrastructure, but a series of incidents at the Tricastin nuclear power plant has shaken its self-confidence. Is public sentiment about nuclear power about to shift? The winegrowers have already made their move. No longer will they label their product Côteaux du Tricastin. Why? Because the name Tricastin is slowly beginning to stand for something far removed from fine wine.

  • Posted by molly
  • Published: 08/13/2008

Efficiency, renewable energy are much cheaper than nukes

When Arjun Makhijani talks about generating electricity with nuclear power, he knows of what he speaks. His Ph.D. is from UC-Berkeley in nuclear engineering, and he has authored numerous books on energy, including the first evaluation conducted of energy efficiency potential in the U.S. economy. His most recent tome, “Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free,” is a no-nonsense policy guide for ending our dependence on fossil fuels without incurring massive debt — and courting potential disaster — by expanding our nuclear-generation capacity.

  • Posted by molly
  • Published: 08/12/2008

The Misconception of Nuclear Power

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  • Published: 08/11/2008

WATER WORRIES GROW

On a hazy summer day, a pair of anglers fish on a man-made lake in PPL’s Susquehanna Riverlands wildlife habitat. Above them, the massive cooling towers of the Susquehanna nuclear plant billow white plumes of vapor, the byproduct of millions of gallons of water the two reactors consume daily from the river to cool the intense heat generated by nuclear fission

  • Posted by molly
  • Published: 08/11/2008

42-Square-Mile Federal Uranium Program Challenged: Threatens Contamination of Public Land, Wildlife Habitat Communities, and Precious Western Water

A coalition of conservation groups filed suit in federal court today, challenging the Department of Energy’s decision to vastly expand its uranium mining program on 42 square miles of public land near the spectacular Dolores River Canyon, a tributary to the Colorado River in southwest Colorado.

  • Posted by molly
  • Published: 08/01/2008

ACCIDENTS MAKE NUCLEAR QUESTIONS LOOM LARGE

The recent proliferation of accidents at nuclear power plants in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Slovenia and elsewhere in Europe has made calls for greater reliance on nuclear energy questionable, experts say.

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  • Published: 08/01/2008

'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution

Scientists mimic essence of plants' energy storage system

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  • Published: 08/01/2008

Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid

We can't let the nuclear power industry use global warming as an opportunity to sell its insanely expensive and dangerous power plants.

  • Posted by molly
  • Published: 07/21/2008

France: Nuclear Leak Announced

French nuclear safety authorities and the nuclear giant Areva said that a leak had occurred at one of Areva’s nuclear fuel plants, the second leak at an Areva nuclear power plant in two weeks.

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  • Published: 07/19/2008

NUCLEAR POWER, FRANCE HALTS TRICASTIN POWER STATION

The French nuclear safety agencies have asked the company owned by the Areva Socatri group to temporarily stop operations at the treatment plant for the Tricastin power station is the south of France. On Monday it was discovered that the plants were leaking water which contained Uranium and which was running off into the surrounding rivers.

  • Posted by molly
  • Published: 07/11/2008

River use banned after French uranium leak

Residents in the Vaucluse, a popular southern French tourist destination, were banned yesterday from drinking well-water or swimming or fishing in two rivers after a uranium leak from one of France's nuclear power plants.

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  • Published: 07/11/2008

Nuclear Recycling Fails the Test

Over the past few years, attention to the recycling of nuclear power spent fuel has grown. Fears of global warming due to fossil fuel burning have given nuclear energy a boost; over the next 15 years dozens of new power reactors are planned world-wide. To promote nuclear energy, the Bush administration is seeking to establish international spent nuclear fuel recycling centers that are supposed to reduce wastes, recycle uranium, and convert nuclear explosive materials, such as plutonium to less troublesome elements in advanced power reactors.

  • Posted by molly
  • Published: 07/07/2008
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