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)
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)
AP – 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)
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)
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)
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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