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26 Apr 2011, 6:10 am by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
As Wikipedia reports, nitrogen is actually a popular choice in cooling nuclear plants anyway. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 2:55 am
In recent years, Wall Street ne'er-do-wells like Henry Paulson have been doing to Americans the same thing that the power companies have been doing to us for decades with nuclear power: privatizing the profits and socializing the losses. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 12:04 am
On this day in ...... 1986 (25 years ago today), an explosion and fire at a power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, touched off the Chernobyl disaster. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 7:45 am by Theo Francis
First, Apple (like a number of other companies) has worked a new item into the boilerplate litany of natural and man-made disasters it publishes under the heading of Risk Factors: “nuclear power plant accidents. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 3:08 am by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
If that does not happen, the irrational fear crowd might get away with sinking nuclear power here. [read post]
23 Apr 2011, 6:41 am by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Two experts cited in that article: Yutaka Kukita, deputy chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, told an April 20 news conference: “The reactors (at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant) continue to be in an unstable condition. [read post]
23 Apr 2011, 5:55 am by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
The result is that wind would be able to replace about 40 nuclear plants, while solar and small hydro power don’t show much promise. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 9:52 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Nuclear plants don’t have much of any insurance, explains this Japan Times article. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 4:24 am by Jon L. Gelman
Thousands of men and women -- and their children -- would suffer because of his reckless drive for power and money. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 3:06 am by admin
Almost 50% of the company’s emission free production was based in the now deactivated nuclear power plants. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 2:59 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
They practiced connecting a mobile emergency generator on a truck to the power plant switchboard (that was were they failed at Fukushima). [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 4:08 am by Dianne Saxe
I think we should choose nuclear, but ONLY those nuclear plants that will fail safely, i.e. will not cause a disaster even if all power, cooling, and human attention were cut off, both to the reactor and to the spent fuel storage. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 11:44 pm by By DEALBOOK
Japanese regulators and executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company are asking questions about a seemingly coordinated series of stock purchases two weeks ago that led to an undisclosed buyer or buyers acquiring a large block of the utility, which owns Japan's dangerously damaged nuclear power plant, The New York Times reports. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 8:13 pm by Donna
Nothing like watching planes crash into the World Trade Center or the devastation of Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on TV, mind you, but the experience of knowing a particular event would eventually occur, and then voila, there it is. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 4:40 pm by Joe Consumer
Supreme Court case that ruled a state has no authority over a nuclear power plant relicensing. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 6:00 am by Steven Gillard
Following the nuclear crisis in Japan, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced that, even though its six nuclear power plants are not in earthquake-prone areas, it may invest significantly in making them less vulnerable to “natural and man-made disasters. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 11:22 am by Marcia Oddi
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, this is from a communication that went out to Indiana Farm Bureau members:Indiana Farm Bureau policy... [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 11:53 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
The obvious source of “flexible power” for now, besides nuclear energy, is natural gas. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 5:29 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
With the 4.7 gigawatt Fukushima nuclear plant out of business and a 10 gigawatt shortage coming up in summer, one would assume that TEPCO might be happy to buy every single watt of wind power available. [read post]