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Florida legislative leaders soften stance on nuclear advance fee law via Tampa Bay Times

Posted on 2013/02/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

State legislative leaders continue to soften Tallahassee’s once-rock-solid support for a law that allows utilities to charge customers in advance for new nuclear projects. This week, House Speaker Will Weatherford told reporters that the law did not produce the kinds … Continue reading →

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New Centralized Nuclear Plants: Still an Investment Worth Making?　via Forbes

Posted on 2013/01/15 by norma field

Just a few years ago, the US nuclear renaissance seemed at hand. It probably shouldn’t have been. Cost overruns from Finland to France to the US were already becoming manifest, government guarantees were in doubt, and shale gas drillers were … Continue reading →

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Government would walk away from talks on nuclear if costs too high says energy minister via smartest energy

Posted on 2012/11/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Energy Minister John Hayes has warned that the UK Government is prepared to walk away from talks with French energy company EDF over the building of nuclear power stations in the UK if the cost to consumers is too high. … Continue reading →

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Doubts cast over Japan nuclear phase-out via The Financial Times

Posted on 2012/10/25 by kojimaaiko

It has only been a month since Japan declared that it would close down its nuclear industry by the end of the 2030s, but already a contentious plan to complete several partially built reactors is sowing doubts about the government’s … Continue reading →

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Nuclear safety and affordable reactors: Can we have both? via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2012/08/04 by norma field

He shows that safety has been the driver of nuclear costs and that the inability of the industry to deliver safe reactors at affordable costs is an endemic, long-standing problem. Nuclear power, he writes, is a complex technology based on … Continue reading →

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French Report Faults Indecision on Nuclear Industry via The New York Times

Posted on 2012/01/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

PARIS — France’s failure to make a definite decision about its energy future has left it with little choice but to extend the life of its existing nuclear power plants, an independent government agency said Tuesday. The French Court of … Continue reading →

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Germany’s phaseout reveals the true costs of nuclear power via grist

Posted on 2011/10/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

29 Sep 2011 4:26 PM This is bad news for nuclear advocates: Nuclear power turns out even more expensive than we thought. According to a study by Arthur D. Little, the four German nuclear utilities (E.ON, RWE, EnBW, Vattenfall) face … Continue reading →

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