Posts Tagged ‘nuke’

NRC: Heavy wear on new tubes at Cal nuke plant (AP)

AP – Federal regulators say unusual wear has been found on dozens of virtually new tubes that carry radioactive water at Southern California’s San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant.

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Iran nuke work at bunker is confirmed (AP)

This image provided by NASA shows the Strait of Hormuz taken from the International Space Station in Sept. 30, 2003. An Iranian newspaper quotes a senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Sunday Jan. 8, 2012 as saying that Tehran's leadership has decided to order the closure of the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if the country's oil exports are blocked. (AP Photo/NASA)AP – Diplomats on Monday confirmed a report that Iran has begun uranium enrichment at an underground bunker and said the news is particularly worrying because the site is being used to make material that can be upgraded more quickly for use in a nuclear weapon than the nation’s main enriched stockpile.


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Japan releases 40-year nuke plant cleanup plan (AP)

FILE - In this March 12, 2011 file photo released by Tokyo Power Electric Co., the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant's Unit 1 is seen after an explosion in Okumam, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Power Electric Co., File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP – Japan’s government said Wednesday that it will take as many as 40 years to clean up and fully decommission a nuclear plant that went into meltdown after it was struck by a huge tsunami.


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APNewsBreak: US aid a step toward Korea nuke talks (AP)

AP – The United States is poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea this week, the first concrete accomplishment after months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic contacts between the two wartime enemies. An agreement by North Korea to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment program will likely follow within days.

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APNewsBreak: NRC panel: Nuke chief damages agency (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2011, file photo, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko speaks to members of the media in Atlanta. Jaczko said Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, he is worried that U.S. nuclear plant operators have become complacent, just nine months after the nuclear disaster in Japan. He said recent instances of human error and other problems have endangered workers and threatened safety at a handful of the 65 nuclear power plants in the United States.  (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)AP – Four Nuclear Regulatory commissioners from both parties say they have “grave concerns” about the panel’s chairman, charging that the actions of Gregory Jaczko are “causing serious damage” to the commission and creating a “chilled work environment at the NRC.”


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1st look at Japan nuke plant: rubble amid progress (AP)

The Unit 4 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma, Japan Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time Saturday saw a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned vehicles, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble virtually untouched since the wave struck more than eight months ago. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool)AP – Two reactor buildings once painted in a cheery sky blue loom over the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Their roofs are blasted away, their crumbled concrete walls reduced to steel frames.


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Media allowed into Japan’s tsunami-hit nuke plant (AP)

A view of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool)AP – Media allowed into Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time Saturday saw a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned trucks, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble virtually untouched since the wave struck more than eight months ago.


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