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

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:11:38 +0000

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)

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:39:53 +0000

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)

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:34:27 +0000

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)

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:55:07 +0000

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)

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:02:25 +0000

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)

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:32:45 +0000

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)

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:22:31 +0000

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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Japan OKs aid for tsunami-hit nuke plant operator (AP)

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:35:22 +0000

AP – Japan has approved a plan to provide 900 billion yen ($11.5 billion) in public funds to the operator of a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant.

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AP Exclusive: New signs of Syria-Pakistan nuke tie (AP)

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:28:44 +0000

AP – U.N. investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms.

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Ex-PM feared for Japan’s survival in nuke crisis (AP)

admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:33:33 +0000

AP – Japan’s former prime minister says he feared early in the March nuclear crisis that it might become many times worse than the Chernobyl disaster and threaten the nation’s survival.

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