Tag Archives: China

Experts voice safety concerns about new pebble-bed nuclear reactors via EurekAlert

Posted on 2018/08/24 by nfield

Researchers advise caution as a commercial-scale nuclear reactor known as HTR-PM prepares to become operational in China. The reactor is a pebble-bed, high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), a new design that is ostensibly safer but that researchers in the U.S. and … Continue reading →

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Uganda Could Become The First African Country To Develop Nuclear Power via Konbini

Posted on 2017/06/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Like there’s not enough wrong in Africa right now, Uganda has signed a deal with Russia to develop uranium into nuclear power for peaceful purposes. Not to mention that it’s really suspicious that Russia seems intent on handing nuclear power to anyone and everyone who will … Continue reading →

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Greenpeace Ignores Tibet’s Nuclear Poisoning via Tibet, Activism and Information

Posted on 2017/04/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The world’s most high profile environmental organization, with a network of international offices and serious resources at its disposal is investing considerable time, effort, thought and finances into developing its Greenpeace-China operations. With headquarters in Beijing and Hong Kong, it … Continue reading →

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China to overtake US as nation with biggest nuclear power capacity by 2026: research via South China Morning Post

Posted on 2017/02/01 by nfield

China’s rapid nuclear expansion will result in it overtaking the United States as the nation with the largest atomic power capacity by 2026, according to BMI Research. The world’s second biggest economy would almost triple its nuclear capacity to nearly … Continue reading →

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France’s Nuclear Power Stations ‘At Risk of Catastrophic Failure’ via Ecologist

Posted on 2016/10/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Sizewell B and 27 Other EDF Nuclear Plants A new report finds that 28 nuclear reactors, 18 of them EDF plants in France and one at Sizewell in the UK, are at risk of failure ‘including core meltdown’ due to … Continue reading →

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A World War Has Begun. Break the Silence. via Information Clearninghouse

Posted on 2016/08/08 by norma field

John Pilger April 17, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where … Continue reading →

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China media again touts plans to float nuclear reactors in disputed South China Sea via Reuters

Posted on 2016/07/15 by norma field

China aims to launch a series of offshore nuclear power platforms to promote development in the South China Sea, state media said again on Friday, days after an international court ruled Beijing had no historic claims to most of the … Continue reading →

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New nuclear reactor builds fall to zero in H1 2016: report via Reuters

Posted on 2016/07/13 by norma field

Construction starts for new nuclear reactors fell to zero globally in the first half of 2016 as the atomic industry struggles against falling costs for renewables and a slowdown in Chinese building, a report on the industry showed on Wednesday. … Continue reading →

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China mulls deploying floating nuclear power platform in South China Sea: Report via the Economic Times

Posted on 2016/04/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BEIJING: China is edging closer to building its first floating maritime nuclear power platform with the prospects of deploying it in the disputed South China Sea, a state-run daily said today even as the Foreign Ministry declined to react, saying … Continue reading →

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China’s Plans to Recycle Nuclear Fuel Raise Concerns via The Wall Street Journal

Posted on 2016/03/17 by norma field

BEIJING—China’s plans to process spent nuclear fuel into plutonium that could be used in weapons is drawing concern from the U.S. that Beijing is heightening the risk of nuclear proliferation. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, in Beijing for talks, said … Continue reading →

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