Energy & Green Tech
Germany will shut down three nuclear power plants on Friday even as Europe faces one of its worst ever energy crises, following Angela Merkel's timetable for phasing out atomic energy.
Dec 31, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
It is a year since Horizon Nuclear Power, a company owned by Hitachi, confirmed it was pulling out of building the £20 billion Wylfa nuclear power plant on Anglesey in north Wales. The Japanese industrial conglomerate cited ...
Sep 27, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A more than 40-year-old nuclear reactor in central Japan which suffered a deadly accident has resumed operation after being taken offline for a decade after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, as Japan pushes to meet ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Engineering
The world saw something never before caught on camera on March 12, 2011: an explosion ripping the roof off a nuclear power plant—Japan's Fukushima Daiichi. The blast wasn't actually nuclear, it was the result of hot hydrogen ...
Mar 10, 2021
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Engineering
An earthquake off the coast of Japan. A resulting tsunami. Ten years ago, Mark Triplett watched the news unfold and worried about two things. The safety of his son and daughter-in-law who were living in Japan at the time. ...
Mar 9, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A nuclear reactor in northern Japan on Wednesday became the first among those damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami to get final restart approval, with support from regional authorities.
Nov 11, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Small amounts of plutonium (Pu) were released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) reactors into the environment during the site's 2011 nuclear disaster. However, the physical, chemical, and isotopic ...
Jul 14, 2020
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Robotics
Robust, intelligent robots that react to their surroundings are being developed to work in situations that are too dangerous for humans, such as cleaning up Europe's decades-old radioactive waste or helping during a nuclear ...
Jan 22, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Hurricane Florence may affect the operations of several of the 16 nuclear reactors located in the Carolinas and Virginia, raising concerns about safety and power outages. Ted Kury, director of energy studies at the University ...
Sep 14, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
More than 30 countries—including European nations, the United States, Brazil and China—took part on Thursday in the first-ever summit held by the United Nations' atomic energy agency to promote nuclear as a "clean and ...
Mar 21, 2024
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