Daily Archives: 2015/01/28

Good News! US Corporations Won’t Have to Pay for Nuclear Disasters in India via Fair Blog

Posted on 2015/01/28 by norma field

Online, the headline was “Obama, India’s Modi Cite Nuclear Investment Breakthrough” (1/25/15). And who doesn’t like a “breakthrough”? The article itself had the same positive spin, beginning with its lead: President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday … Continue reading →

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Sweden’s SSM Says It Has Stopped Processing New Nuclear Plant Plans via Nuclear Street

Posted on 2015/01/28 by norma field

A spokesman for Sweden’s nuclear power regulator Stralsakerhetsmyndigheten, known as SSM, said the agency had stopped processing plans for new nuclear power plants in the country to comply with statements from the new minority-run government, which took over after September’s … Continue reading →

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Heysham nuclear power plant: Reactor taken offline due to water leak via BBC

Posted on 2015/01/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A reactor at a nuclear power plant in Lancashire has been taken offline due to a technical fault. EDF Energy, operators of Heysham Power Station in Morecambe, said one of the two reactors at the Heysham 1 site was closed … Continue reading →

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Kazakhstan eyes construction of new nuclear plants via ConstructionWeekOnline

Posted on 2015/01/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Kazakh energy minister Vladimir Shkolnik has said that the country is looking to build two new nuclear power plants to meet demand placed on its current network infrastructure. The country’s only nuclear plant was shut down in 1999 and it … Continue reading →

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