Luminant will end work on their license for two new nuclear reactors at Comanche Peak according to a Reuters report, 11/08/13. Luminant's actions show once again that the so-called nuclear renaissance is fizzling out. New nuclear ...
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Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it was awarded a Technical Consultancy Agreement from EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited to support its power station projects in the United Kingdom. Officials did not disclose the ...
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On October 29 the international consortium of which Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) is a member reached a broad framework of agreement with the Government of the Republic of Turkey on a commercial agreement relating to the Sinop ...
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Human-caused climate change and air pollution remain major global-scale problems and are both due mostly to fossil fuel burning. Mitigation efforts for both of these problems should be undertaken concurrently in order to maximize ...
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Each year, POWER magazine selects the most noteworthy nuclear power plants worldwide to be designated Top Plants. Winning plants are profiled in the November issue, and awards are presented at the ELECTRIC POWER Conference & Exhibition ...
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Today we have the announcement by DECC that EdF will construct the first of the new generation of nuclear plants in the UK. Should we welcome this decision? The contract for this project will provide an electricity price of ...
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United Kingdom to allow Chinese companies to purchase stakes in latest $25.9b reactor project The United Kingdom recently signed a $25.9 billion deal to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in the southwestern part of England. ...
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For one writer the answer is yes. Switching to LEDs can mean the demise of nuclear power plants in the U.S., according to Michael Kanellos, a contributor for Forbes. Kanellos reasoned nuclear power plants only generate 19 percent of ...
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The Ninth China Steel Annual Conference was held on October 22th -25th at the Beijing Convention Center. Baosteel Group chairman Mr. Xu Le Jiang was invited to deliver a keynote speech of " green business model create green steel - ...
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Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company used around 450,000 kiloliters, or 91,000 b/d, of crude and fuel oil for power generation in October, up 50% from the 300,000 kl it had planned to consume earlier, a source close to the matter said ...
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Russia and China on Tuesday signed an agreement by which Russia will supply an additional 10 million tonnes of crude oil to China each year over the next 10 years, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in Beijing. "(We) will supply ...
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Across large parts of the world Christmas is fast approaching. Retail stores are already stocking the usual tat associated with the festivity while young children begin to prepare their wish lists. Those who have behaved well this year or ...
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With the chemical symbol Ni, nickel is a silvery white and hard metal which is ductile and malleable and belongs to the transition group of metals. It is a versatile element and will alloy with most metals. The alloys of nickel has been ...
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The UK government is to allow Chinese nuclear companies to take stakes in new reactors to be built in the UK, finance minister George Osborne said Thursday on a visit to the Taishan nuclear power site in southern China. Reporting on ...
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The UK government and France's Electricite de France reached an agreement, permitting the French power giant to build a nuclear power station in UK hand in hand with Chinese partners. It will be the first nuclear power station ...
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