Showing posts with label Nuclear Safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuclear Safety. Show all posts
Friday, October 09, 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Fukushima plant water dumped into sea
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Contamination,
Fukushima,
Nuclear Safety,
oceans,
radioactive,
TEPCO,
water
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts in small scale
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alert,
earthquake,
japan,
Nuclear Safety,
volcanic activity
Monday, August 17, 2015
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Monday, May 11, 2015
NY nuclear plant fire produced river oil slick
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Electric Power,
fires,
nuclear power,
Nuclear Safety,
oil spill,
Rivers,
United States
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Explosion rocks nuclear power plant in New York
A large explosion has rocked the Indian Point nuclear plant in upstate New York, the facility's management reported.
Entergy Corporation, the company running the plant, said the affected parts of the facility were "safely shut down" and in "safe and stable condition" after a transformer failure on Saturday.
Entergy Corporation, the company running the plant, said the affected parts of the facility were "safely shut down" and in "safe and stable condition" after a transformer failure on Saturday.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Fukushima plant pumps halted, toxic water leaking into ocean
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Fukushima,
leaks,
Nuclear Safety,
oceans,
Pacific Ocean,
radioaktive,
TEPCO,
water
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Friday, November 07, 2014
Japan to restart 2 nuclear reactors despite local opposition, safety concerns
Two nuclear reactors in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima have
been cleared to be restarted by Governor Yuichiro Ito and prefectural
assembly, making the prefecture the first to gain such approval to
restart its idled reactors since new safety regulations were introduced
after the 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Clearance for the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai plant in the prefecture was given Friday by Ito and the assembly, with the governor telling a news conference that while he effectively had "no choice" in the matter, the restart was "essential" and that Japan's nuclear watchdog had approved the reactors' safety standards and compliance.
Clearance for the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai plant in the prefecture was given Friday by Ito and the assembly, with the governor telling a news conference that while he effectively had "no choice" in the matter, the restart was "essential" and that Japan's nuclear watchdog had approved the reactors' safety standards and compliance.
Japan local assembly okays restart of two reactors
A local assembly in Japan on Friday (Nov 7) approved plans to restart two nuclear reactors, removing a major hurdle to getting atomic power back online more than three years after the Fukushima disaster.
A majority of Kagoshima assembly members voted for the motion to resume operations at the Sendai plant in the southern Japanese prefecture, officials said. The move leaves as an obstacle only the formal approval of Kagoshima's powerful governor, which is expected later in the day, and marks a victory for the pro-nuclear government of Shinzo Abe in its campaign to re-fire atomic plants.
A majority of Kagoshima assembly members voted for the motion to resume operations at the Sendai plant in the southern Japanese prefecture, officials said. The move leaves as an obstacle only the formal approval of Kagoshima's powerful governor, which is expected later in the day, and marks a victory for the pro-nuclear government of Shinzo Abe in its campaign to re-fire atomic plants.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Japan to reopen 1st nuclear plant after Fukushima disaster - despite volcano risks
A local council has voted to re-open the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant
on the outermost western coast of Japan, despite local opposition and
meteorologists’ warnings, following tremors in a nearby volcano.
Nineteen out of 26 members of the city council of Satsumasendai approved the reopening that is scheduled to take place from early 2015. Like all of Japan’s 48 functional reactors, Sendai’s 890 MW generators were mothballed in the months following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Nineteen out of 26 members of the city council of Satsumasendai approved the reopening that is scheduled to take place from early 2015. Like all of Japan’s 48 functional reactors, Sendai’s 890 MW generators were mothballed in the months following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Uranium shipment signals end of US-Russian nuclear deal.
MOSCOW - A 20-year-old deal that has powered American homes while
reducing the risk of Russian nuclear material falling into the wrong
hands approached its end on Thursday when the final shipment of uranium
left St Petersburg for Baltimore.
Under the 1993 HEU Purchase Agreement, Russia downblended 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium and sent it to the United States, where it was made into fuel for nuclear power plants.
Over much of the life of the deal, it was used to generate roughly half of all commercial nuclear energy produced in the United States, or nearly 10 percent of all US electricity, according to the US Energy Department.
Under the 1993 HEU Purchase Agreement, Russia downblended 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium and sent it to the United States, where it was made into fuel for nuclear power plants.
Over much of the life of the deal, it was used to generate roughly half of all commercial nuclear energy produced in the United States, or nearly 10 percent of all US electricity, according to the US Energy Department.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Turkey and Japan sign formal agreement to build second nuclear plant in Sinop.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe signed on Oct. 29 the official agreement for building Turkey's second nuclear plant in the Black Sea province of Sinop.
The two countries signed a $22 billion deal in May for the construction of a plant with a total capacity of 4,800 megawatts (mW), by a Japanese-French alliance of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and French firm Areva.
Abe came to Istanbul to attend the official opening ceremony of the Marmaray tunnel, which has also been built by a Japanese firm.
The two countries signed a $22 billion deal in May for the construction of a plant with a total capacity of 4,800 megawatts (mW), by a Japanese-French alliance of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and French firm Areva.
Abe came to Istanbul to attend the official opening ceremony of the Marmaray tunnel, which has also been built by a Japanese firm.
Ετικέτες
accidents,
Atomenergie,
japan,
nuclear power,
Nuclear Safety,
Turkey
Saturday, January 05, 2013
China resumes construction of biggest nuclear plant
BEIJING —
China has resumed construction on a “fourth generation” nuclear power
plant, suspended after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, which will be its
biggest-ever nuclear facility, state media said Saturday.Construction on the coastal Shidao Bay nuclear plant in Rongcheng, a city in eastern China’s Shandong province, resumed last month, the state-run China Internet Information Center reported, adding that the plant is “China’s biggest planned nuclear project”.
The plant, which will be cooled by high temperature gas, will become “the world’s first successfully commercialised fourth generation nuclear technology demonstration project”, the report said.
It is designed to be safer and cuts down on costs, the report quoted a spokesman from the China Huaneng Group, the biggest investor in the plant, as saying.
The plant, expected to begin supplying electricity to the grid by 2017, will have a final generating capacity of 6,600 megawatts, the report said, adding initial investment in the project will be three billion yuan ($480 million).
Monday, December 24, 2012
Japan: Abe to review Fukushima crisis before deciding on restarting reactors
TOKYO —
Japan’s incoming pro-nuclear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday
his government will again investigate the Fukushima nuclear crisis,
after which the country’s reactors could be restarted, reports said.His comments will add to speculation that plans to ditch nuclear power in disaster-scarred Japan will be shelved by his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) when it takes power after scoring a landslide election win last week.
“We are yet to completely clarify what went wrong (in Fukushima),” he told a political show on Fuji TV on Sunday.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
H ιστορία στο Τόκιο:Συνομιλίες υπουργών και εμπειρογνωμόνων στη Φουκουσίμα για την πυρηνική ασφάλεια (Nuclear Safety)
Η Διεθνής Υπηρεσία Ατομικής Ενέργειας από κοινού με την κυβέρνηση της Ιαπωνίας διοργανώνουν στη Νομαρχία της Φουκουσίμα διάσκεψη για την πυρηνική ασφάλεια.
Η διάσκεψη πραγματοποιείται στην πόλη Κοριγιάμα
κοντά στον ατομικό σταθμό ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας της Φουκουσίμα, που
είχε πληγεί λόγω του σεισμού και του τσουνάμι τον Μάρτιο του 2011.
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