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10 Mar 2022, 4:16 am by Elvira Dominguez Redondo
Beyond the weapons, the danger posed by potential attacks to nuclear plants has also taken centre stage after the Russian military attacked an administrative building linked to a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia on 4 March 2022 (see Dielnet). [read post]
8 Mar 2022, 9:26 am by Neil H. Buchanan
 My longstanding discomfort with the bipartisan embrace of nuclear power was in part fed by the problem of waste disposal, but more particularly by what to do when an entire plant becomes waste. [read post]
5 Mar 2022, 10:18 am by JURIST Staff
There was a fire at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant which is 6 time more powerful than Chornobyl. [read post]
4 Mar 2022, 9:16 am by Katherine Pompilio
Russian forces have since gained control of the nuclear power plant. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 9:03 pm by Sam Wong
Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced a proposed rule that would change the way nuclear power plants are decommissioned, which is the process of safely shutting them down from use. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 3:34 pm by Rob Robinson
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Ukrainian officials urged caution as Russian forces advanced toward another Ukrainian nuclear power plant on March 1 and 2. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 12:55 pm by JURIST Staff
As of yesterday, they managed to take over Chernobyl nuclear power plant. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 11:33 am by Katherine Pompilio
” Russian forces captured the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Ukrainian territory, writes the Washington Post. [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 2:39 pm by Katherine Pompilio, Claudia Swain
Reportedly, the Russian military has captured the Chernobyl power plant; destroyed "more than 70 military targets, including 11 airfields, a helicopter and four drones. [read post]
22 Feb 2022, 10:50 am by Jonathan H. Adler
In California, environmentalists have used a state law designed to protect fish eggs as a pretext to close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, the state's largest source of clean energy, while the California Environmental Quality Act has hobbled efforts to build both high-speed rail and high-voltage transmission lines that the state is counting on to meet its climate commitments. [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 10:23 am by Tim De Chant
National politics almost certainly play a role—the nuclear power sector in France employs around 220,000 people, according to one estimate. [read post]
13 Feb 2022, 5:46 am by Kevin LaCroix
FirstEnergy operates two aging nuclear plants that have proven to be enormously expensive to maintain. [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 1:52 pm by John McFarland
Certain power plants within each category of technologies (natural gas-fired power plants, coal power plants, nuclear reactors, wind generation, and solar generation facilities) failed to operate at their expected electricity generation output levels. [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
He has used his political positions to protect the fuel, and a single power plant in West Virginia that burns it, from regulations that also threatened his family business. [read post]
6 Feb 2022, 10:49 am
It sees the development of such processes and phenomena as multipolarity, economic globalization, the advent of information society, cultural diversity, transformation of the global governance architecture and world order; there is increasing interrelation and interdependence between the States; a trend has emerged towards redistribution of power in the world; and the international community is showing… [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 9:03 pm by Brianna Rauenzahn
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will begin reinstating a rule that limits “mercury, acid gases, and other harmful pollutants” from power plants. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 3:07 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The researchers also found that less than 20 percent of high schoolers seriously questioned spurious claims in social media, such as a Facebook post that said images of strange-looking flowers, supposedly near the site of a nuclear power plant accident in Japan, proved that dangerous radiation levels persisted in the area. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 10:04 am by Tim De Chant
Germany, which is in the process of shuttering its nuclear power plants, remains heavily dependent on coal and has been boosting its use of natural gas to “transition” away from coal. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 11:46 am by Tom Smith
By closing existing nuclear power plants, opposing the development of reliable fossil fuels at virtually every opportunity, attacking existing energy infrastructure choke points, and constraining capital for future development, the behavior seems virtually indistinguishable from what we would be doing if an adversarial foreign power were in charge of our affairs. [read post]