Iranian first n-plant running at ‘full capacity’
September 1st, 2012 - 10:19 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 1 (IANS/RIA Novosti)Iran's first nuclear power station has begun operating at full capacity, a Russian firm said Friday.The plant's launch in August 2010 prompted Israel and other nations ... Read more...
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No deal with Pakistan on n-plant: Sri Lanka
July 28th, 2012 - 11:27 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, July 28 (IANS) Sri Lanka Saturday denied reports that it was to build a nuclear power plant in the east of the country with the assistance from Pakistan.Terming the ... Read more...
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Russia, Belarus sign $10 bn nuke plant deal
July 18th, 2012 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
Minsk, July 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia signed a $10 billion contract with Belarus Wednesday to build the former Soviet republic's first nuclear power plant.The agreement was signed in the presence ... Read more...
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South Africa to build big nuclear plant
May 30th, 2012 - 3:56 pm ICT by IANS
Johannesburg, May 30 (IANS) South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has stressed the need for replacing coal with other energy sources, particularly nuclear energy. He said the country would build ... Read more...
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South Africa to expand local businesses with n-power capacity
April 27th, 2012 - 2:07 pm ICT by IANS
Johannesburg, April 27 (IANS) South Africa wants to build up local businesses as it expands its nuclear power capacity, the country's Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said."It is not just about ... Read more...
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Britain’s oldest n-power station closes
March 1st, 2012 - 10:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 1 (IANS) Britain's oldest running nuclear power station was shut down Thursday after 44 years in use, the Daily Mail reported.Staff at Oldbury Nuclear Power Station near Thornbury, ... Read more...
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Jellyfish shut down Scottish n-reactors
June 30th, 2011 - 7:21 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 30 (IANS) Nuclear reactors at a plant in Scotland have been hit by a school of jellyfish, a media report said.A large influx of jellyfish from the North ... Read more...
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IAEA team to review nuclear crisis in Japan
May 17th, 2011 - 7:27 pm ICT by BNO News
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (BNO NEWS) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday announced that it will dispatch an international expert fact-finding mission to Japan to review the country's nuclear crisis.Almost 20 ... Read more...
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Japanese PM Kan declines salary until nuclear crisis solved
May 10th, 2011 - 7:35 pm ICT by BNO News
TOKYO (BNO NEWS) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday announced that starting June, he will be declining his monthly salary and biannual bonuses until the country's nuclear crisis is brought ... Read more...
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Japanese envoy discusses bilateral issues with Chidambaram
April 28th, 2011 - 9:47 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Apr 28 (ANI): The newly-appointed Ambassador of Japan to India, Akitaka Saiki, called on Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram here on Thursday to discuss bilateral issues, the tsunami devastation ... Read more...
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Radiation risk from Japan nuke plant ‘considerably smaller’: Official
April 11th, 2011 - 3:40 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Apr 11 (ANI): Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has said the risk of massive radiation leaks from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is lower than what it was ... Read more...
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Steel wall being built to prevent radioactive water from Jap nuke plant seeping into Pacific Ocean
April 9th, 2011 - 1:18 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Apr 9 (ANI): Tokyo Electric Power Corporation, the operator of the troubled Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan, has started to install a steel wall and fence to prevent more water ... Read more...
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Radioactive water spills out of Japan nuke plant after quake
April 8th, 2011 - 6:16 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Apr 8 (ANI): Radioactive water spilled from pools holding spent nuclear fuel rods at the Onagawa power plant in Miyagi Prefecture after an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale rocked ... Read more...
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Fukushima Governor slams Japan’s nuke agency for late radioactive data
April 3rd, 2011 - 6:20 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Apr 3 (ANI): Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato has criticized the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency for its late release of radioactivity data related to local farm produce shipments, which have ... Read more...
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Dead bodies of two missing workers found at Fukushima nuke plant
April 3rd, 2011 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Apr 3 (ANI): Two dead employees of the Tokyo Electric Power Corporation have been found at the troubled Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.TEPCO officials said that both had died of bleeding from ... Read more...
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‘Long battle’ to resolve Fukushima nuke crisis: Japanese PM
April 2nd, 2011 - 12:20 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Apr 2 (ANI): Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has admitted that there will be a long-term battle to stabilize Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.The Japanese government has also indicated ... Read more...
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Up to 1,000 bodies left untouched near Fukushima nuke plant over ‘high levels of radiation’ fears
March 31st, 2011 - 1:30 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Mar 31 (ANI): The fear of being affected by radiation has prevented authorities from collecting around 1,000 bodies of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami victims from within the 20-kilometer-radius evacuation ... Read more...
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Japanese operator says it will “scrap” four reactors at tsunami hit nuke plant
March 30th, 2011 - 6:08 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Mar 30 (ANI): Tokyo Electric Power Company's Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumatahas said that four of its six reactors at the earthquake-cum-tsunami nuclear plant in Japan will completely be 'scrapped'."We have no ... Read more...
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Japan’s tsunami hit nuke plant workers unlikely to take up given option to quit
March 26th, 2011 - 3:34 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Mar 26 (ANI): Tokyo Electric Power Corporation has reportedly given an option to workers of Japan's earthquake-cum-tsunami hit nuclear power station in Fukushima Prefecture to decide whether or not to continue ... Read more...
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Radioactive materials’ level found 1,250 times higher than legal limit in sea near Fukushima plant
March 26th, 2011 - 1:50 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Mar 26 (ANI): Levels of radioactive materials are increasing in the sea near the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit nuclear power station in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, the government's nuclear ... Read more...
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9,523 dead in Japan quake, 16,067 missing
March 24th, 2011 - 11:58 am ICT by IANS
Tokyo, March 24 (IANS) The toll in the Japan earthquake and ensuing tsunami has risen to 9,523 while 16,067 people are still unaccounted for, Xinhua quoted the National Police Agency ... Read more...
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Grayish smoke spotted in No. 3 reactor building of Japan’s affected nuke plant
March 21st, 2011 - 5:38 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Mar 21 (ANI): Grayish smoke was noticed coming out of the earthquake-cum-tsunami hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station's No. 3 reactor building on Monday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Coorporation has ... Read more...
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Air New Zealand CEO says sensational media reports overblowing Japan nuke plant disaster
March 21st, 2011 - 3:02 pm ICT by ANI
Wellington, Mar 21 (ANI): Air New Zealand's CEO Rob Fyfe has criticised media reports in two messages to his staff, saying that if the coverage of the Japanese and earthquake-cum-tsunami and nuclear ... Read more...
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Infosys asks employees to come back from quake-hit Japan
March 15th, 2011 - 4:53 pm ICT by ANI
Mumbai, Mar 15 (ANI): Against the backdrop of the earthquake cum tsunami, which struck northeast Japan on Friday, Infosys, India's second-largest software services exporter, on Tuesday advised all of its employees to ... Read more...
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Nuclear crisis worsens as radiation levels rise above normal in Tokyo
March 15th, 2011 - 1:17 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Mar 15 (ANI): Japan's nuclear crisis has taken a turn for the worse with nuclear radiation being detected in Tokyo, which is 250 kilometres southwest of a Japanese quake-stricken atomic power ... Read more...
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Japanese PM urges residents near exploded Fukushima reactor to stay ‘indoors’
March 15th, 2011 - 12:17 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Mar 15 (ANI): Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has urged citizens residing within 30 kilometres of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to stay indoors after an explosion took place in ... Read more...
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Explosion at Japan’s Fukushima reactor damages its crucial steel containment structure
March 15th, 2011 - 11:53 am ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Mar 15 (ANI): One of the most seriously troubled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan suffered a setback on Tuesday morning after an explosion took place in ... Read more...
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Radioactive releases following Japan tsunami can last for months: Experts
March 14th, 2011 - 12:32 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Mar 14 (ANI): US and Japanese experts have suggested that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled nuclear plants in the aftermath of an earthquake-cum-tsunami in Japan could go on for ... Read more...
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China launches N-plant simulator
December 29th, 2010 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Dec 29 (IANS) China has put into operation its first home-built simulator of a nuclear power plant in the country's southeastern Fujian province, a media report said. The simulator was put ... Read more...
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How plants near Chernobyl shrug off radiation
December 9th, 2010 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): Scientists studying the ecological legacy of the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine have discovered as to how plants adapt and even flourish ... Read more...
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Israeli cyber unit unleashed Iran computer virus
October 1st, 2010 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 1 (IANS) An Israeli military unit that undertakes cyberwarfare is responsible for creating a virus that attacked Iran's computer systems and stopped work at a nuclear power station, an expert ... Read more...
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Iran fears that Stuxnet worm was specifically made for the country’s nuclear power station
September 24th, 2010 - 8:07 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sep 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There has been an outbreak of the Stuxnet worm in Iran and many believe they were specially made for the country’s nuclear power station. The worm is a ... Read more...
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Nuclear Power Plant To Be Dismantled By Salt Lake City Firm
August 25th, 2010 - 7:59 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Utah, Aug 25, (THAINDIAN NEWS) EnergySolutions which is a nuclear services company based in Salt Lake City has signed an agreement with Exelon to dismantle the well known Zion Nuclear ... Read more...
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DNA can predict which Chernobyl species are at risk of radioactive damage
August 21st, 2010 - 5:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 21 (ANI): DNA could be the key to predict which species In Chernobyl are likely to be most severely damaged by radioactive contamination, according to scientists.The secret to a species' ... Read more...
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China to build more nuclear power plants
June 18th, 2010 - 8:13 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, June 18 (IANS) China has selected four new sites in its northeast for construction of nuclear power plants with an aim to generate four million KW of electricity every year.
Experts ... Read more...
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