“All plants have flood protection above the predicted storm surge, and key components and systems are housed in watertight buildings capable of withstanding hurricane-force winds and flooding,” the NRC said in a statement earlier today.
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29 October 2012
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INNOVATION FOR AMERICA’S ENERGY, ECONOMIC, AND NATIONAL SECURITY
February 2012
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama said that America faces “our generation’s Sputnik moment” and that we need to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world to capture the jobs of the 21st century. “In America, innovation doesn’t just change our lives. It’s how we make our living.”
By Helen Ku / Staff reporter, with CNA
Taipai Times
The legislature’s Economics Committee yesterday passed a non-binding resolution demanding that state-run Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) transform the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao District (貢寮), New Taipei City (新北市), into a liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant.
The resolution, initiated by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Ting Shou-chung (丁守中), asked the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to change the plant into a natural gas plant.
Taking lessons from the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the US and last year’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster in Japan, Ting said the power plant should be changed into a thermal power plant as was done to the William H. Zimmer nuclear plant in Moscow, Ohio, in 1991.
Since the plant is only 20km to 30km away from Taipei, Ting emphasized that a nuclear disaster would devastate the nation’s densely populated north.
The controversial nuclear plant has been under construction since 1997 and is a financial burden on the country, Ting said, adding that the government has already poured more than NT$100 billion (US$3.41 billion) into it.
11:42 a.m. EDT, October 29, 2012
The Palisades nuclear plant is in Covert, Van Buren County. The Federal Emergency Management drills will be held at emergency operating centers in Van Buren and Berrien counties Monday.
Monday morning’s drill was scheduled to start at 8 a.m. and another is planned for Tuesday.
The plant has shut down several times in the last few months due to leaks and other safety-related issues. Since then, it’s been working to shed the bad rating from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Chennai: Hundreds of anti-nuclear activists and leaders of different political outfits were detained today when they attempted to lay siege to the State Assembly demanding scrapping of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.
MDMK Leader Vaiko, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi leader and MP Thol Thirumavalavan, pro-Tamil leader P Nedumaran along with hundreds of activists and fishermen were detained by a heavy posse of police when they tried to take out a march towards the Secretariat.
Strongly opposing the Indo-Russian project, Vaiko alleged that India had secretly agreed to provide power to Sri Lanka from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project.
Vaiko. PTI
Thirumavalavan said not only Kudankulam, Kalpakkam and all nuclear power stations in the country should be closed. He said Chief Minister Jayalalithaa should not stand on prestige and instead make efforts to close the project.
Russia Hopes To Go Nuclear In The UK
Russia’s state-owned nuclear power companies are hoping to convince U.K. legislators to allow them to build nuclear power plants, Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Monday.
The U.K. has 16 nuclear reactors at nine nuclear power plants, generating about one sixth of the United Kingdom’s electricity. In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned byTokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.
Last year, Russia and Bangladesh signed an to build that country’s first nuclear power plant by Russian nuclear power company Rosatam. Russia also supplies the fuel, so Bangladesh is not enriching uranium.
As of July 2012, there were 435 nuclear power plants in operation around the world. The U.S. has the most with 104. Russia is third with 33 and the U.K. has 13. Japan is number two with 50 nuclear power stations in operation.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/10/29/russia-hopes-to-go-nuclear-in-the-uk/
Oct. 29, 2012
A preliminary state spending plan calls for Russia to spend nearly $3.2 billion on its atomic arsenal before 2015 concludes, Russian Duma defense panel head Vladimir Komoedov said in a statement reported by Vedomosti on Thursday.
Posted on : Oct.29,2012 14:03 KST
The Hankyoreh
According to Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, the breakdown at Uljin had nothing to do with the reactor’s safety, and the reactor is scheduled to go back on line once the broken equipment has been replaced, following approval from the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission. This is a canned response that we’ve heard every time there has been a problem, but it is an increasingly worrying one for the public. The Shinkori and Yeonggwang reactors that broke down early this month recently went back on line after an inspection, only to suffer further problems. This clearly shows that the problem doesn’t just go away when the broken parts are replaced.
“All plants have flood protection above the predicted storm surge, and key components and systems are housed in watertight buildings capable of withstanding hurricane-force winds and flooding,” the NRC said in a statement earlier today.
Inspectors Dispatched to Nuclear Reactors in Sandy’s Path By Mark Drajem, Kasia Klimasinska and Christine Harvey – Oct 30, 2012 Extra federal inspectors were dispatched to U.S. nuclear-power plants in the path of Hurricane Sandy as operators and officials reassured the public that they are prepared for high winds, power outages and flooding associated with the massive storm.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it sent additional inspectors to 10 sites from Maryland to Connecticut, and issued the employees satellite telephones, as regulators and plant operators grappled with the worst storm to threaten U.S. nuclear facilities since a nuclear disaster in Japan last year. Procedures require the sites to be shut before winds are forecast to exceed hurricane force, the commission said today in a statement.
“Given the breadth and intensity of this historic storm, the NRC is keeping a close watch on all of the nuclear power plants that could be impacted,” NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane said in a statement. “Our extra inspectors sent to the potentially affected sites will continue, on an around-the-clock basis, to independently verify that the safety of these plants is maintained until the storm has passed and afterwards.” Continue reading
October 29, 2012 9:07 pm
Hitachi agrees UK nuclear purchase
By Guy Chazan and Jim Pickard
Hitachi Ltd is to buy the Horizon nuclear project for about £700m from its German owners , whose decision to put the joint venture up for sale in March threw Britain’s nuclear expansion plans into disarray.
The price offered by the Japanese technology group, which beat a rival bid by Westinghouse Electric Co, was more than double what most analysts had expected …….. The Horizon venture is little more than a start-up, with land at two sites – Oldbury in Gloucestershire and Wylfa on Anglesey – and the rights to build new reactors there.
“In the end, Thailand’s nuclear ambitions were for now pushed to 2026 after heavy criticism in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. “We hope that until then Thailand will not go the nuclear route,” says Senator Rosana at the end of the week-long delegation trip.”
WANNAPA KHAOPA
THE NATION October 30, 2012 1:00 am
“Thailand should have another nuclear reactor. I’ll do my best to start the project again,” Plodprasob said when he presided over the opening of the 2nd Asian Symposium on Material Testing Reactors.
The event coincided with an open house at the Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (TINT) held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the country’s sole nuclear research reactor.
A bid to build a new reactor in Ongkharak in Nakhon Nayok has been put on hold due to a lawsuit. But Plodprasob said he would not wait till the lawsuit goes through the courts – he would seek to restart the project.
“Probably, we can buy a new 10-megawatt reactor with better technology,” he said.
“I, myself, as Deputy Prime Minister will push forward this project. I will propose it to the Cabinet.”
Plodprasop was promoted in the latest reshuffle. Previously he was science and technology minister.
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