via BBC News German industrial and engineering conglomerate Siemens is to withdraw entirely from the nuclear industry. The move is a response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March, chief executive Peter Loescher said. He told Spiegel magazine it was the firm’s answer to “the clear positioning of German society and politics for […]
via BBC News A plan to complete work on a US nuclear reactor at a half-built plant in Alabama has been approved, more than 20 years after construction was halted. The Tennessee Valley Authority approved the $4.9bn (£3bn) plan to restart construction, which stopped in 1988 amid declining power demand estimates. The Bellefonte Nuclear Plant […]
via CNN As Japan buckles from a powerful earthquake and a devastating tsunami, residents on Sunday hoped they are spared an even more catastrophic fate: a widespread release of radiation from damaged nuclear plants. By Sunday afternoon, the death toll from the country’s strongest earthquake in more than a century and the crushing walls of […]
Operators at the Perry nuclear power plant manually shut down the reactor about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday after pressure dropped in the equipment that automatically shuts down or “scrams” the reactor in an emergency. The reactor temperature at noon today was less than 200 degrees and electrical engineers were busy trying to track down the problem. “We […]
A company backed by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is in talks with Japan’s Toshiba to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors. Mr Gates’ TerraPower and Toshiba are investigating technology for mini-reactors, which are more cost-efficient than conventional units. The hope is that the new reactors might be suitable for use in cities or emerging-market […]
