Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
Chinaâs Rapid Reactor Expansion Raises Concerns
âSHENZHEN, China - China is preparing to build three times as many nuclear power plants in the coming decade as the rest of the world combined, a breakneck pace with the [...]
Here in the Northwest, coal feels like someone else’s problem. Maybe the Appalachian miner, a Wyoming rancher or someone watching their asthmatic kid gasp for clean air among the Midwest’s dirty coal-fired power plants.
By comparison, flipping a light switch here makes us feel almost virtuous. [...]
Seambiotic, a developer and grower of marine microalgae for the nutraceuticals and biofuel industries using flue gas from electric power plants, has signed a license agreement and a joint venture agreement with Yantai Hairong Electricity Technology Ltd. and Penglai Weiyuan Science & Trading Ltd., companies associated with [...]
t r u t h o u t warns that aging coal plants take a heavy environmental toll. U.S. power plants dumped 2.56 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the environment in 2007 — and much of that came from the nation’s older coal-fired plants.
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
Britain poised to lose jobs as £10bn nuclear power plant contract goes to US
âThousands of jobs that were to have been created in Britain to build the next generation of nuclear power plants could be heading [...]
Green Car Congress informs us that the EPA has proposed stronger air quality standards for SO2.
For the first time in nearly 40 years, EPA is proposing to strengthen the nation’s sulfur dioxide (SO2) primary air quality standard to protect public health. Power plants and other [...]
For the first time in nearly 40 years, EPA is proposing to strengthen the nation’s sulfur dioxide (SO2) primary air quality standard to protect public health. Power plants and other industrial facilities emit [...]
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
India puts nuclear plants on alert
âNEW DELHI, Nov 16 (Reuters) - India has put its nuclear power plants under alert and tightened security around them after intelligence about possible attacks, a report said on Monday. The [...]
LONDON -- The British government unveiled plans Monday to launch one of the world's most ambitious expansions of nuclear-power capacity, calling for the construction of 10 plants to help meet surging energy demands in the era of global warming.
After years of resistance to construction of nuclear-power plants, the [...]
Warren Buffet, one of the most respected investors in America, recently purchased Burlington Northern, one of the nation’s largest railroads with some 32,000 miles of track. BN like almost all railroads carries coal - lots of it from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming to the nation’s electrical power plants. [...]
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