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MANILA, Philippines -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has cautioned the Philippines and other countries considering the revival of nuclear energy options not to let “commercial interests take precedence over safety issues.”
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Under the decommissioning proposal from owner Exelon, the plant would be torn down and shipped in pieces to Utah by EnergySolutions (aka ZionSolutions for the project). Under the plan, the decommissioning funds would be turned over to ZionSolutions to ship the low-level radioactive rubble to its dump in Clive.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Water containing a small amount of radiation leaked within a Tokyo Electric Power Co nuclear power plant in northern Japan, where a strong earthquake hit on Saturday, company officials said.
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In mid-2007, a Keystone Center nuclear report (PDF), funded in part by the nuclear industry estimated capital costs for nuclear of $3600 to $4000/kW including interest. The report notes, "the power isn't cheap: 8.3 to 11.1 cents per kilo-watt hour." In December 2007, retail electricity prices in this country averaged 8.9 cents per kwh.
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BRIDGMAN, Mich. (AP) — Investigations of security practices at American Electric Power Co.'s Cook Nuclear Plant in southwest Michigan have led to the suspensions of six people who work at the facility. The Herald-Palladium in St. Joseph reports Saturday that investigations by AEP and security provider Wackenhut Nuclear Services found two "brief and isolated instances" of officer inattention and inappropriate use of security cameras.
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ST. LOUIS | Union Electric Co. withdrew plans for a second nuclear reactor in Callaway County in October 1982, but a new generation of executives is back 25 years later with plans for another plant. The St. Louis-based utility, now called AmerenUE, and its partner, Baltimore-based UniStar Nuclear LLC, will seek a construction and operating license as soon as next month for a $6 billion, 1,600-megawatt plant next to the existing Callaway nuclear plant.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III office in Lisle, Illinois, has activated its Incident Response Center to monitor an Unusual Event declared at the Duane Arnold Nuclear Plan triggered by the loss of three major sources of telecommunications at the station due to rising floodwaters. The plant, operated by FPL Energy, is located in Palo, Iowa. The plant is in a stable condition at 100 percent power. There have been no unplanned radioactive releases. State and local officials have been informed.
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OCALA - As Progress Energy awaits news from the Florida Department of Community Affairs on whether it can continue with plans to build two nuclear reactors in Levy County, opportunity for public input is dwindling fast. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week held a public meeting in Crystal River, telling about 150 people that they could see the first Levy County reactor on line by 2016. DCA's decision is expected by late July.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tornado damaged the building housing a nuclear research reactor at Kansas State University, the university told the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in an event report early Thursday.
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Elmore County, Idaho -- A public meeting was being held in Mountain Home to inform residents of plans to build a nuclear reactor in Elmore County. The reactor would be just once piece of a nuclear energy complex that would make Idaho a leader in the development of clean energy.
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TOKYO, June 10 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) (9501.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) manually shut the 784-megawatt No.5 nuclear generator at its Fukushima Daiichi plant on Monday for the second time in less than a month due to technical trouble, it said on Tuesday.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review a combined license (COL) application for two new reactors at the Vogtle site near Waynesboro, Ga. Southern Nuclear submitted the application and associated information March 31. The application, minus proprietary or security-related details, is available on the NRC Web site here: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-licensing/col/vogtle.html.
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Activist group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) on Saturday assailed a proposal by Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes to open the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant to solve the country's energy woes, saying the plant would cause more problems instead. On Saturday Secretary Reyes said he is thinking of opening the supposed 630-megawatt power plant in Morong, Bataan, to add to the country's energy capacity.
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The radioactive remnants of Colorado's single attempt to generate power from a nuclear reactor are locked up in dry casks - 244, to be precise. Buried in layers of concrete and steel designed to withstand a jetliner crash, each cylindrical cask holds six nuclear rods - spent fuel that was used to fire the state's only nuclear power plant, the Fort St. Vrain plant near Platte ville, before faltering mechanics led to its shutdown in 1989.
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On Wednesday officials in Slovenia shocked the European Union with what seemed to be a rather serious accident in the country's only nuclear power plant, but a day later officials were backtracking. The European Commission on Wednesday evening through a special emergency alarm system, the European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange, issued an EU-wide warning to all 27 member states, after cooling water had leaked from a power plant in Krsko, Slovenia.
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BAXLEY, Ga., June 6 (UPI) -- A Georgia nuclear power plant had an unexpected emergency 48-hour shutdown after a recent software update, company officials said. The shutdown, blamed on a cyber incident, occurred March 7 at Unit 2 of the Hatch nuclear power plant near Baxley after a Southern Company engineer installed a software update on the plant's business network, the Washington Post said Friday.
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Duke Energy customers in South Carolina could be on the hook for up to $64.4 million in development costs for two nuclear reactors the Charlotte utility is considering building in Cherokee County. The S.C. Public Service Commission voted unanimously Thursday to allow Duke Energy to spend up to $230 million from 2005 through 2009 studying, designing and preparing the site for the project. The utility would still have to show actual expenses were prudent in order for the PSC to allow the utility to pass along the costs to ratepayers.
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BRATTLEBORO — After part of a cooling tower collapsed last August at Vermont's only nuclear power plant, the company that runs it blamed rotting wooden timbers that it had failed to inspect properly. The uproar that followed rekindled environmental groups' hopes of shutting down the aging plant.
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Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant might come into operation half a year after original schedules, the country’s nuclear power company Rosenergoatom confirmed this week. The press secretary of the company says to RIA Novosti that the floating NPP will come into operation in Mid-2011, about half a year after schedule.
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We've learned that the French nuclear safety agency has ordered a halt to the construction of the new EPR reactor in Flamanville, France. Only six months after work first began. The EPR is the same type of reactor that is proposed to be built in the UK.
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