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Nordic nuclear power plant outages
Times of India
(Adds Oskarshamn-3, revises end date for Oskarshamn-3 G3 under reactors out of service, removes completed outage) Oct 18 (Reuters) - Nordic countries have 12 nuclear reactors in operation, eight in Sweden and four in Finland, with a combined capacity ...

Xinhua
Domestic steam generator headed for nuclear power plant
Xinhua
The cutting-edge domestic steam generator Tuesday departed for the first demonstration nuclear power project using Hualong One technology, a domestically developed third-generation reactor design. It was designed for the No. 5 unit of Fuqing Nuclear ...

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Bradenton Herald
State rejects FPL bid to charge users $49 million for nuke plant it may never build
Bradenton Herald
In a rare rebuke to Florida Power & Light, state utility regulators Tuesday rejected the company's request to charge $49 million more for the planning of a nuclear reactor that the company cannot say will ever be built. The 4-1 decision by the Florida ...
Public Service Commission denies FPL bid to recover nuclear project costsSun Sentinel
Florida rejects some recovery for proposed new FPL nuclear reactorsBusiness Insider
Regulators deal with FPL nuclear license, costsFlorida Politics (blog)
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Huffington Post South Africa (blog)
Brian Dames: SA Has No Need For More Nuclear Power
Huffington Post South Africa (blog)
South Africa cannot afford more nuclear power, former Eskom CEO Brian Dames told MPs on Wednesday. Dames is testifying before Parliament's public enterprises committee, which is conducting an investigation into corruption and maladministration at the ...
As it happened - StateCapture: 'Bring the crooks to book'Fin24

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Citizen
We will not be 'reckless' on nuclear energy – Mahlobo
Citizen
“We will not be reckless, but let's not actually be bulldozed or threatened that we should not do the thing [build new nuclear power plants] to ensure that this country continues to have the security of supply of energy, we will ensure it is ...

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New York Post
Obama administration knew about Russian bribery plot before controversial nuclear deal
New York Post
In the second deal, in 2011, Obama gave the OK for Rosatom's Tenex subsidiary to sell the Canadian company's uranium to American nuclear power plants. Before, Tenex could only sell reprocessed uranium from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons to ...
FBI Kept Russian Bribery Plot Under Wraps Before Obama Administration Approved Nuclear Deal With MoscowNewsweek
New Russian Nuclear Scandal Raises New Questions About Clinton FoundationNational Review
Here's what the FBI knew before Obama struck nuclear deals with Russia — and it looks badTheBlaze.com
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Newsweek
Atomic Bomb Survivor Wants Nuclear Weapons Ban as Trump and North Korea Exchange Threats
Newsweek
It also introduced the world to the vast destructive capabilities of nuclear power, inspiring similar programs in other countries, the most recent being North Korea. As the world's first nuclear power threatens to disarm the latest, Kimura urged all ...
How we got to a nuclear North KoreaWashington Times
N Korea nuclear attack could 'shut down US power grid, kill 90% of Americans'New Zealand Herald
North Korea warns nuclear war could 'break out any moment'Bangor Daily News
Pakistan Observer (blog) -Evening Standard
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Daily Maverick
Cabinet Reshuffle: David Mahlobo's appointment comes days after DEA gives Eskom nuclear site authorisation
Daily Maverick
When a notification arrived on Monday that the Department of Environmental Affairs had granted an environmental permit to Eskom providing the go-ahead for the construction of a 4,000 megawatt nuclear power plant at Duynefontein, close to the more than ...
Nuclear: 'Mahlobo may be the bulldozer Zuma needs'Fin24
Zuma's nuclear agenda behind #CabinetReshuffle – analystIndependent Online

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cleveland.com
FirstEnergy nuclear charges still before lawmakers, opponents fight earlier increases at Supreme Court
cleveland.com
The Perry nuclear power plant would get a consumer-paid subsidy if a proposal by its owner FirstEnergy is approved by Ohio lawmakers. The company earlier lobbied the Trump administration to re-design regional wholesale power markets to give more ...

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
A dozen reasons for the economic failure of nuclear power
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
This is exactly what happened during the first round of nuclear construction in the United States, in the decade between 1975 and 1985. History is repeating itself because of a dozen factors and trends that render nuclear power, new and old, inevitably ...
Kansai Electric may scrap two aging nuclear reactors at Oi plantThe Japan Times
Oi nuclear reactors set to be decommissionedThe Japan News
Kansai Electric to scrap 2 old nuclear reactors at Oi plantJapan Today

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Electric Light & Power
SEC Probing Utilities over Abandoned SC Nuclear Power Project
Electric Light & Power
Securities regulators are investigating the failure of a nuclear reactor construction project in South Carolina. SCANA, parent company of South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., says it's complying with a subpoena from the SEC. The probe comes on the heels ...

China Focus: Domestic steam generator headed for nuclear power plant
Xinhua
GUANGZHOU, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- A cutting-edge domestic steam generator Tuesday departed for the first demonstration nuclear power project using Hualong One technology, a domestically developed third-generation reactor design. The Hualong One ...

EU Reporter
Construction of #Belarus nuclear power plant: Security and public acceptance 'top priority'
EU Reporter
Journalists of Belarusian and foreign media visited the first Belarusian nuclear power plant which is being constructed near the town of Ostrovets (Grodno oblast). The event was held in the framework of the XXII Belarusian Energy and Ecology forum ...

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Perth Now
Dean Jaensch: Nuclear power could be the solution for Australia's energry crisis
Perth Now
Apparently unable to achieve what the public expects — stable, affordable and reliable power — the government is proposing to pay consumers in NSW, SA and Victoria not to use electricity at times of high demand. This is not just a nonsense policy, it ...

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The Badger Herald
UW student groups screens films discussing benefits of nuclear power
The Badger Herald
The American Nuclear Society University of Wisconsin Student Section hosted a film screening to kick off Nuclear Science Week at the Wisconsin Energy Institute Monday. The event kicked off with a screening of “Pandora's Promise,” a documentary which ...
Get Ready for a New Chernobyl in UkraineCenter for Research on Globalization (blog)

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Nikkei Asian Review
Japan's Kansai Electric to shut down 2 major nuclear reactors
Nikkei Asian Review
Japan idled its nuclear plants to make them compliant with tougher safety standards after Fukushima. At present, just five are back online, operated by Kansai Electric, Kyushu Electric Power and Shikoku Electric Power. The government's target would ...

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The Hill
Conservative think tank: Plan to help coal, nuclear power 'arbitrary ...
The Hill
A conservative think tank is raising concerns about a Department of Energy plan to help boost coal and nuclear power. An analyst for the American Action Forum ...
Joe Manchin backs Rick Perry's plan to subsidize coal, nuclear plantsWashington Examiner

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Independent Online
Environmental Affairs approves Eskom's construction of SA's next nuclear power station
Independent Online
Eskom on Friday announced that the Department of Environmental Affairs had approved the site for the construction and operation the pressurised water reactor type nuclear power station, next to the existing Koeberg power station in the Western Cape.

Daily Star
BREAKING: Nuclear power plant evacuated over bomb alert
Daily Star
The suspicious package was found in the Cruas / Meysse nuclear power plant, in France today. The cardboard box was located at the entrance of the site – in the non-nuclear part of the facilities. An intervention is currently underway at the building ...

Nordic nuclear power plant outages
Times of India
(Adds Loviisa-2 G22 and revises end dates for Forsmark-2, Oskarshamn-3 G3 under reactors out of service and Ringhals-3 under reactors to go out of service) Oct 16 (Reuters) - Nordic countries have 12 nuclear reactors in operation, eight in Sweden and ...

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