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FILTER RESULTS ►Solar Power now cheaper than Nuclear?
Salem County, New Jersey, may be best known for farming but we are also the cutting edge of energy work, with ongoing projects to develop a new solar power plant and a new nuclear reactor. Which is better? The Energy Collective reports...Show More Summary
Preparations for Bushehr NPP launch to be finished by end of August - Rosatom
Preparations for the launch of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran will be finished by the end of August, the head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) said on Tuesday.
Meetings on Indian Point Nuclear Power Station to Begin This Week
Public hearings will take place today on NYSDEC’s denial of a water quality certificate for the Indian Point nuclear plant’s cooling system, which kills 2 billion fish, eggs and larvae every year.
Indian Point Decision Time
If you live in New York, you may have read or heard recent news stories dealing with the Indian Point nuclear power plant, an obscure state permit and dead fish. The short story: the plant's owners want to continue their decades-long delay tactics to avoid installing technology that will save billions of Hudson River fish, eggs and larvae every year.
Elevated levels of radioactive isotope at Pilgrim nuclear power plant
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff A monitoring well located on the ocean side of the Pilgrim Nuclear Station in Plymouth has registered elevated levels of the radioactive isotope tritium. The tritium detected was still well below the Environmental Protection...
Angelina Jolie’s ‘Salt’: Will real-life Russian spy story help its box-office fortunes?
Sometimes, bad real-world news can be a film’s best friend. In 1979, 12 days after The China Syndrome was released in theaters, the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island narrowly averted disaster. In 1987, Oliver Stone’s Wall Street came out less than a month after Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage drop in stock-market
Russia Launches Barge For Floating Nuclear Power Plant
The barge of Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Academician Lomonosov, is launched at the Baltic Shipyard. Photo via The Voice of Russia.
Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com.
Does the idea of a nuclear power plant floating in the ocean leave you a little nervo...Read the full story on TreeHugger
What it looks like inside a German nuclear plant [Nuclear Power Plants]
Check out that unearthly blue glow, thrumming with mysterious power. It's not a starship's engine room — it's the inside of the nuclear power plant Grundremmingen, in southern Germany. It's opened up for maintenance, allowing a rare gaze inside. More »
Giant bike-friendly junk-cyborg
Luke sez, "I made this cyborg sculpture out of scavenged electrical wire, conduit, and parts from a submarine and a nuclear power plant. It's neat because its innards light up at night and it comes from a future in which the human form is preserved through continued use of the humble bicycle." Wheeled Victory, or The Cyborg of Interstellar Justice Spring 2008 (Thanks, Luke!)...
Floating nuclear power plants
Project of the world's first floating nuclear power plant.
First reactor launched for floating nuclear power plant
The first reactor of the floating nuclear power plant “Academician Lomonosov” has been launched at the St.
BP: PR Isn't An Add-On
Summary: BP has added social media to its belated crisis-response activities, with the help of the prominent PR firm Ogilvy & Mather. Terrific. BP resorting belatedly to social media is like a nuclear power plant shutting down its visitors center, than having to reopen it in a crisis mode when it has a problem. Good public relations isn't an add-on. Show More Summary
Russia takes easy Bulgaria's move on joint projects, but could find other partners - envoy
Russia understands reasons behind Bulgaria's decision to suspend the joint construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline and halt the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant, but will find other partners in the region is Sofia continues to drag its feet on the projects, the Russian ambassador in Bulgaria told local media.
While we are on the issue of environmental risk... nuclear power plants
(This post has nothing to do with investing per se.)
Bloomberg reports,
China’s Daya Bay nuclear power plant had a “very small leakage” from a fuel rod last month that has been contained, CLP Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong’s biggest electricity...Show More Summary
Bulgaria made no official decision on Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline project, Belene nuclear power plant - energy minister
Bulgaria has not yet taken any official decision on the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline project or Belene nuclear power plant, its joint projects with Russia and Greece, Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said on Friday.
Bulgaria freezes Belene nuclear power plant construction
Bulgaria has suspended construction of its Belene nuclear power plant, Bulgarian News Agency BGNES quoted the country's Prime Minister Boiko Borisov as saying on Friday.
Nuclear Reactor Eaten by Leaky Acid, Again
Photo via Cleveland
Back in 2002, an Ohio nuclear power plant developed a leak that allowed highly pressurized cooling water containing boric acid to seep out. That acid ate away a football-sized hole into the 6-inch steel lid to the nuclear reactor, leaving the reactor's integrity at grave risk. Show More Summary