Archives: 2011 March
Can US nuke plants handle blackouts?
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON — Long before the nuclear emergency in Japan, U.S. regulators knew that a power failure lasting for days at an American nuclear plant, whatever the cause, could lead to a radioactive leak. Even so, they have only required the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors to develop plans for dealing with much shorter blackouts on the assumption [...]
US drops to 3rd in clean energy, report finds
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON – U.S. fell one place to third place in clean energy investment last year as the lack of a wound in the national energy policy shop in wind and solar and other technologies, according to a report released Tuesday. China was second and Germany first, the report said, "Who will win the clean energy [...]
Nuke plant near NYC a fire risk, state says
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
NEW YORK — The Indian Point nuclear power plant has sought more than 100 exemptions from the fire code that could make it difficult to shut down the nearly 40-year facility in an emergency, New York’s attorney general said on Monday. The plant, which supplies as much as 30 percent of New York City’s electricity, has [...]
Undeterred by Japan, Earthquake-Prone Indonesia Pursues Nuclear Power (Time.com)
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
Rising alarm at the spread of radiation throughout Japan’s water supply has not deterred one of its major trading partners from going ahead with its nuclear ambitions. Indonesia’s National Nuclear Energy Agency, also known as Batan, announced on Monday that it had narrowed down the list of bidders for a feasibility study it plans to [...]
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March 30th, 2011, No Comments
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Sarkozy in China for G20 meet before Japan visit (AFP)
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
Sarkozy in China for the G20 meeting ahead of Japan visit BEIJING (AFP) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in China on Wednesday at the start of an Asian mini-tour that a G20 seminar on the international monetary system and an end in Japan will include a disaster. The French leader arrived in Beijing at [...]
Texas Instruments Sees 6 Month Disruption at Japan Plant (PC World)
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
Texas Instruments expects 4:00 to 6:00 months off its chip plant in Japan after the earthquake on 11 Taken in March. the company's factory in Miho, about 65 miles north-east of central Tokyo, was closed by the quake and suffered damage to infrastructure and production. It 'was responsible for about 10 percent of the companies [...]
Japan mulls reactor covers in nuclear crisis (AFP)
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
Japan mulls reactor covers in nuclear crisis SENDAI, Japan (AFP) – Japan was Wednesday considering plans to drape shattered nuclear reactor buildings with special covers to limit radiation, and pump contaminated water into a tanker. The embattled nation, reeling from the triple calamity of a massive earthquake, tsunami and a crippled atomic power plant, was [...]
Spike in seawater radiation compounds Japan’s nuclear crisis (Reuters)
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
Japan upgrades nuclear safety standards after plant disaster TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan said there was no end in sight to the crisis at its earthquake-wrecked nuclear power plant on Wednesday as a spike in radioactive iodine levels in seawater added to evidence of reactor leakages around the complex and beyond. Plutonium finds in soil at [...]
Snapshot – Japan’s nuclear crisis (Reuters)
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
Japan upgrades nuclear safety standards after plant disaster TOKYO (Reuters) – Following are main developments after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and crippled a nuclear power station, raising the risk of an uncontrolled radiation leak. * New readings show a sharp rise in radioactive iodine in the sea off the Fukushima Daiichi [...]
