Today, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment unanimously approved Congressman Bart Gordon’s bipartisan legislation to ban the importation of foreign-generated radioactive waste for disposal in the United States...
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A new generation of French nuclear power reactors came under attack on Tuesday as opposition parties called for an inquiry into their security systems, after three nuclear safety bodies asked for changes to their design...
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Progress Energy Inc., the owner of utilities in three U.S. Southeast states, said it would need to build about 12 nuclear units by 2050 to comply with the emissions limits called for in climate legislation in Congress...
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The United States might have to adopt a "mini Cold War" strategy to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, a leading arms control expert said yesterday...
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A disarmament committee of the United Nations passed a resolution yesterday that calls for the global elimination of nuclear weapons. The United States added its support to the measure for the first time in nine years, Kyodo News reported...
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A wide array of potential new measures to heighten the penalties for smuggling nuclear-weapon technology or materials were debated during a three-day conference here last week...
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China will start building its first large nuclear-power reactor with home-developed "fourth generation" technology in 2012-13, a senior engineer involved in developing the system said.The Experimental Fast Reactor will have a designed annual power-generating capacity of 800 megawatts, and is due to come online around 2020, according to Xu Mi, chief engineer with the China Institute of Atomic Energy's Fast Reactor Experiment Department...
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The French government is urging Electricite de France to think about dropping its plan to acquire nearly half of Constellation Energy's nuclear assets and to partner with the U.S. company to build four nuclear reactors. In his testimony before the French parliament, Henri Proglio, who is set to take over EDF in November, said he was "not sure that [the U.S. deal] needed to be done." ...
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A combination of electric vehicles with clean generation and nuclear power for baseload will solve America's climate and energy security problems, according to testimony from a senior utility chief.David Crane of NRG Energy, which has some 24,000 MWe of generating capacity, spoke in front of the US Senate's Committee on Climate Change Legislation yesterday...
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The chief executive of Exelon Corp (EXC.N), the largest U.S. nuclear power generator, said an additional $50 billion in government loan guarantees for nuclear power would be enough to spark the industry to build new plants. The current nuclear loan guarantee program of $18.5 billion could be expanded if utilities and lawmakers who back the industry win new incentives in U.S. climate legislation...
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The United States and United Arab Emirates are finalizing a landmark nuclear power cooperation agreement now that Congress has given its tacit approval, U.S. officials said on Thursday...
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday renewed the operating license for Exelon Corp's 786-megawatt Unit 1 at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania for an additional 20 years until 2034...
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Israeli leaders are having a “serious conversation” about carrying out a unilateral attack on Iran should that nation continue to develop a suspected nuclear-weapon capability, one U.S. journalist said Wednesday following an investigative reporting trip to the Middle East...
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Iran today appeared to turn down a U.N. proposal for France and Russia to refine a large portion of the nation's low-enriched uranium for use at a medical research reactor in Tehran. Instead, the Middle Eastern state proposed that it be allowed by buy additional nuclear material from other countries in an exception to international sanctions already in force, Reuters reported...
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Nuclear power should play an essential role in our efforts to mitigate climate change, argues Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and longtime environmental activist...
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