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Furtel said a meltdown at a nuclear power plant does not always result in a massive release of radiation, as America's own history shows.

17 nuclear power plants, which had been due to close by 2021, would be extended by an average of 12 years.

As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon , the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

He says Iran has no intention of acquiring an atomic bomb; it is only making low-enriched uranium to fuel nuclear-power stations.

"There was no damaged piping in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as claimed in the article, " he said.

France is scrambling to regain its position as a world leader in nuclear power, before it misses out on an expected boom in the industry.

The percentage of coal consumption dropped, all the others increased, the biggest rise took place in hydropower & nuclear power.

Both sides of what he calls "Japan's nuclear power mafia" are motivated by a desire to defend atomic power from its critics.

The process of generating electricity at a nuclear power plant is really all about making heat, just as it is at a coal-fired plant.

The unease has been so intense that even the long-standing cross-party consensus on nuclear power seems to be crumbling.

North Korea would probably not be a nuclear power today if China had been prepared to exert more pressure on it in the past.

In a nuclear power plant accident, the general population is not likely to be exposed to doses high enough to cause such effects.

The time it takes to plan and build a nuclear power station tends to be longer than most politicians are in power.

In an editorial it pointed out that this is the first time nuclear power plants have been hit by an earthquake or tsunami.

Just last week, China jacked up estimates for how much uranium it will need for nuclear power plants (see story on page 27).

Tony Blair spent most of his prime ministership running around the issue of nuclear power (at the last minute deciding it was all right).

The French side is ready to strengthen cooperation with China in economy, trade and technology, particularly in nuclear power, he said.

East Power spokesman said the system will help the East in January next year before the power off Fukushima nuclear power plant safety.

Yet the pragmatist in her means she can change her mind, just as she did over nuclear power.

The scientist said the facilities appeared to be "designed primarily for civilian nuclear power" .

Russia also built Iran's first nuclear power plant and is actively trying to build other nuclear power facilities abroad.

Such a system would bring the benefits of nuclear power to an economy, yet keep a country from investing in its own fuel cycle, Sell said.

On July 13th Mr Kan said he wants Japan to reduce nuclear power on safety grounds, if not to get rid of it altogether.

She said the tsunami was an 'act of heaven' and the people who work in nuclear power weren't at fault.

Isn't it a people-oriented strategy if money paid in nuclear power development can be used to develop cleaner and safer renewable resources?

Certainly, nuclear power and weapons, if it comes to that, would be a matter of national pride.

Washington is also concerned that Kim Jong Il is trying to present North Korea internationally as a declared nuclear-power.

British experts have even compared the effects of the pollution to that of a nuclear power plant disaster.

It was the first time that such a precaution had to be taken at a British nuclear power station.

The only nuclear power station in Atlantic Canada is the Point Lepreau station on the north shore of the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick.

Sarkozy said those calling for all nuclear power plants to be shut down in the wake of the Fukushima crisis should be more realistic.

Just how much of an impact will nuclear power and nuclear weapon depots have during and after the pole shift?

He said the SPD would now form a "strong opposition" , in particular fighting to keep the nuclear power plant phase-out.

But opponents of this strategy call it a distraction that could hinder the renewal of the nuclear power industry.

Hostility to nuclear power had been reversed in Sweden and many in the industry had hoped that it could be reversed in Germany as well.

WHO said the situation will change as the nuclear power plant accident, up to date guidance.

She said the suspension would allow for a thorough examination of the safety standards of the county's 17 nuclear power plants.

The incentives here, as with nuclear power, are already in place, in the form of scheduled increases in fuel-efficiency standards.

Plants seem to tolerate the high radiation levels found in the soil near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.

We did not have to fight the Soviets. Even though they were a nuclear power they collapsed and disintegrated.

It also raised global concerns about the safety of nuclear power at a time when it has seen a resurgence as an alternative to fossil fuels.

With few energy resources of its own, pursuing nuclear power seemed like the best strategy.

This galactic fleet will assist us to see that the nuclear fallout from the Japanese nuclear power plants is lessened.

At least some of the nuclear power plants approved at the State Council meeting have also been planned for years.

The ship is likely to be conventionally powered, since China has limited experience with nuclear power in submarines only.

If they keep it up a while longer, the prospects for a deal on more nuclear power may yet survive.

Nuclear power is produced by harnessing the heat produced by the splitting of atoms inside uranium - a process known as fission.

In Bulgaria brazen attempts to rig a nuclear power tender seem to have left politicians helpless.

This may be a bad time to ask whether Japan ought to have a nuclear power industry.

This fully applies to the case of such a space object carrying a nuclear power source on board.

Now I have two tall screen monitors, side by side, and I feel like the operator of a nuclear power station.

A state of emergency was declared on Sunday at a nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Japan, as well.

The first nuclear power plant in Fukushima, said the news of the nuclear power plant normal, not abnormal.

And the lack of climate legislation meant there was no price on carbon, which would have favoured nuclear power.

No doubt the developments are scary, but the crisis may serve more as a cautionary tale than the big game-changer over nuclear power.

But the narrow question of whether Japan can survive without nuclear power may be answered much sooner than people think.

If its combustion is not curtailed, it could kill millions of times more people than nuclear power plants have done so far.

Neither Mr Obama nor Mr Putin wants to see Iran emerge as a nuclear power, setting off a destabilising arms race in the Middle East.

Many Americans seem to prefer coal-fired generators to nuclear power plants without realizing the toll in public health that coal imposes.

To a lot of environmentalists, the priority is to get nuclear power out of those discussions once and for all.

The former is a Jewish settlement planted in the heart of the West Bank. The latter is an Iranian nuclear-power plant.

"If you build a nuclear power plant and operate it well, it's going to produce a steady stream of income, " Moniz noted.

North Korea would like the same: to be accepted by America as a nuclear power and still rewarded.

As Su Qin, head of CNNC, put it in a recent speech: "For China, developing nuclear power is not a choice, but a necessity. "

In the wake of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, radiation could once again lead to a gender bias in humans, he said.

And Obama said he approved of nuclear power as one element of a broader energy plan.

I'm not saying we shouldn't develop nuclear power in China. But how much can we safely handle by 2020?

Wednesday, winds over the Fukushima nuclear-power plant gusted out to sea, keeping levels close to normal.

Evacuation of the U. S. government had declared nuclear power plant accident within 80 km around the U. S. residents and military personnel.

He wants North Korea to be accepted as a nuclear power, his officials say, just as India in practice has been.

And we were proud of our technology, but our nuclear power plant turned out to be a nightmare.

Despite gaining traction in its effort to expand, the nuclear power industry is unlikely to move smoothly into a new era of prominence.

Around and beyond the nuclear power plant discovered in the environment, water and food in case of excessive radiation, it is of concern.

The question now is whether the U. S. will re-evaluate its nuclear power plans in the wake of this latest meltdown.

Nuclear power, at least potentially, is a less polluting energy source than most of its competitors.

Or to save energy to avoid developing more nuclear power projects?

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says all countries, including Iran, have the right to access to civilian nuclear power.

"We all agree that we have to reexamine our nuclear power plants in Taiwan, " she said.

Public opinion turned against nuclear power after Three Mile Island. But it was the economics of nuclear power that changed fundamentally.

Mr. Kan also said the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power center is the worst Japan has ever faced.

Chubu Electric's nuclear power plant in Hamaoka has been out of use since it automatically shut down on June 15 due to excessive vibration.

Bulgaria, one of the hardest hit, said people had started freezing as it began moves to reboot a controversial nuclear power plant.

For this report, there are U. S. officials said the report makes are for the supervision of nuclear power plants are concerned.

All the safety stuff, all this understanding of how nuclear power plants work is very important but the objective is to make electricity.

Her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has abandoned one core belief after another (conscription, nuclear power), and is about to do so again.

Poland, which is trying to weaken its dependence on Russian energy in part by developing nuclear power, reacted cautiously.

China's desire for resource security will probably trump any reservations it might have about nuclear power.

Republicans push nuclear power as at least a partial substitute for their lack of a comprehensive energy plan.

Japan, Germany and Switzerland have all move to scale back nuclear power as a result of that disaster.

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With the highly limited exception of large navy vessels, nuclear power has no such captive market.

"Building nuclear power or expanding nuclear power may mean more costs or more delay, " he said.

At present, the temperature of the second nuclear reactor nuclear power plants also continued to rise.

Whether or not the project goes ahead, it has already had a big impact on public perceptions of nuclear power.

Without nuclear power and with other fuels filling in its share pro rata, emissions from generation would have been about 11 billion tonnes.

The ship is the first in the scale of increasing vehicle size that would appear to be adaptable to nuclear power.

Elderly nuclear power stations and dirty coal plants must be shut down over the next five years.

The disaster is one of Europe's worst environmental accidents since the explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.

"Cooling water" , "repair the circuit" is the light of day the two sides deal with the two main Fukushima nuclear power plant accident.

One of the main embodiment is the application of simulation technology and digitizer control technology in Nuclear Power Plant.

McCain said nuclear power was a clean source of energy that would be key to battling climate change and mocked Obama.

Alabama, the storm also led to a nuclear power supply be affected, some of the reactor automatically shut down.

As for the rest of us, nuclear power may also come to seem a good deal, once you factor in the risks of climate change.

Shopper Chung Myung-sun says the troubles with the Japanese nuclear power plant are prompting a change in her household's eating habits.

Parallel island genetic algorithm applied to a nuclear power plant auxiliary feedwater system surveillance tests policy optimization.

After the Japanese experience, such cavalier dismissal of the intrinsic problems of nuclear power is no longer plausible.

Less than 100 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear power plant Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is one of Hitachi's production base.

We were in Ukraine, in Chernobyl. It was exactly the place where they later built the [infamous] nuclear power station.

The company also says it has built or designed more than half the nuclear power plants operating in the US.

It was also Ibaraki Prefecture, said nuclear power plants within the county does not appear unusual.

"Yet, those who questioned nuclear power were marginalized as being 'unrealistic dreamers', " he said, according to Kyodo.

Although the accident nearly killed off America's nuclear-power industry, it did not harm any people.

So North Korea remains a rogue state with an alarming nuclear programme rather than being a nuclear power in its own right.

Nuclear power's danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation.

Much of the debate revolves around whether to scrap a plan devised by an earlier government to cease nuclear-power generation by 2022.

One of the most complex and difficult to understand and build is the nuclear power plant.

If it fails to restart halted reactors, Japan will be without nuclear power in less than nine months.

Germany, which had just opted to phase out nuclear power at home, joined the project.

Since the country depends on nuclear power for 29% of its electricity, the nuclear freeze threatened to cast Japan into darkness.

Mr. Kanalaoalso said the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power center is the worst Japan has ever faced.

Because nuclear power was unpopular for decades, Areva stopped training engineers, so that much of its expertise lies with its oldest staff.

The design capacity of the spent fuel pool for the first and second nuclear power plant was not enough to store spent fuel.

The long-term outlook which nuclear power also brings with it should clarify them.

The Midwest state of Illinois, with six nuclear power plants, is home to the largest network of nuclear facilities in the United States.

Nuclear power is too risky and too expensive to stand on its own and only survives by the gift of national socialized disaster insurance.

North Korea is a nuclear power. The United States should get used to it.

Among the nuclear plants closer to that region is Fessenheim station on the Rhine, the oldest nuclear power plant in France.

Nuclear energy is mainly used for making military weapons, producing nuclear power and providing power.

Experts do not view Toshiba's increased stake in the nation's largest nuclear power company as a national concern.

He made an exposition of the advantages of nuclear power.

While enjoying the energy from the nuclear power stations, we have to bear the risk of the unlikely event of a nuclear accident.

A: Then you need only a few truck loads of fuel at a nuclear power station instead of many train loads of coal.

Critics say the toxic waste from nuclear power generation remains a problem for thousands of years and is not worth the risk.

That's where you see some of the source, not from my fellow environmentalists, but from people who feel threatened by nuclear power.

Russia has had aims to expand its nuclear power for reasons quite opposite that of Japan.

The main pump is the core of first loop of a nuclear power plant, it plays a vital role on the safety of the nuclear reactor operation.

We have to move up the ladder of energy security, to natural gas, nuclear power and renewable energy.

Some countries to stop importing products from the previously announced around the first nuclear power plant food.

"Our thoughts are with you! Future without nuclear power, for our children! " read a message from Greece.

Nuclear power was so unpopular that some employees would not admit to working for the company.

Before the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power was being rebranded as a green form of energy.

The results show that the model can be used for real-time simulation of nuclear power condensers .

Food shipments from four prefectures around the Fukushima nuclear power plant have been suspended.

But uranium prices remain well above the level seen for most of the past three decades, buoyed by an expectation of growth in nuclear power.

The general situation, the sources and characteristics of oil-bearing wastewater in the nuclear power plant are introduced.

'The nuclear industry around the world probably will have to review how we set those assumptions in designing a nuclear power plant. '

Biofuels from corn and plant waste came right at the bottom of the list, along with nuclear power and "clean" coal.

One example of India's "checks and balances" at work was the suspension of its talks on a U. S. nuclear power deal.

Nuclear power, coal with carbon capture, and ethanol were all poorer options, as were oil and natural gas.

Mr. Abraham said he will ask President Bush to approve the project. Officials of nuclear power industries also support the plan.

"I doubt whether we'll have a nuclear power plant, it's very safe to say, but possibly a windfarm and we have windmills, " he said.

When it is completed, Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant is expected to provide up to 6 percent of the island's electrical power.

But nuclear power plants do not release greenhouse gases, which cause coal and gas-fired power plants to contribute to global warming.

Yet public fears about the safety of nuclear power could still derail its revival, at least in richer, democratic nations.

A timely piece of research by Deutsche Bank boldly states that phasing out nuclear power plants "is not a viable policy option. "

That is a sobering thought in a world ready to re-embrace relatively carbon-free nuclear power.

But there has been a persistent tendency to ignore the toughest questions posed by nuclear power: What should be done with the waste?

This is a challenging accident for a nuclear power plant, and is referred to as a "loss of offsite power. "

Also, there are challenges in between converting the plutonium into fuel for a nuclear power plant and actually producing power with it.

Nuclear power plants should be built in cities - those who crave electricity must accept the risks of a Chernobyl or terrorist attack.

McCain said he would do this by building 45 new nuclear power plants.

The U. S. nuclear power industry faces problems dating to the previous era of an interrupted expansion.

Mr. Obama said he has ordered a 'comprehensive review' of safety at U. S. nuclear power plants, a step urged by members of Congress.

strict carbon-emissions targets mean they must be replaced with a mix of nuclear-power plants and wind turbines.

So what is it that we're ultimately trying to do in nuclear power? We want to make and capture the heat from the fission process.

The core of a nuclear power plant demands huge steel forgings that weigh up to 240 tonnes.

Indeed, as we were compiling this podcast, reports were coming in of a new explosion at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power complex.

The public should be involved in deciding whether or not a nation needs nuclear power.

Able to provide conscientious and thorough work according to instructions, as required for the handling of nuclear power pump components.

While similar in terms of technical complexity and scale, the economic risks of nuclear power are in no way comparable to high speed trains.

in the normal operation, the nuclear power plant on the surrounding radiation dose produced by the public is not a threat to people.

It's still hard to tell what the exact situation is at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 170 miles north of Tokyo.

The development of nuclear power would surge forward, beginning to fill the void that would be left by oil.

But the spot price of liquefied natural gas increased when supplies were diverted to Japan to make up for the shortfall in nuclear power.

Modern commercial nuclear power plants like the Fukushima plant use defense-in-depth safety measures.

Sucha blatant violation of the nonproliferation regime undermines China 's own privileged standing as a "legitimate" nuclear power.

Our government is going to put in six new nuclear power stations.

Unfortunately, there is no question that radioactive substances are leaking into the atmosphere from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The long-term radioactive waste storage problems of nuclear power have not been fully solved.

Nuclear power plants do not burn fuel, so there is no air pollution of the ordinary kind.

Politicians may have calculated that a few nuclear-power stations will be easier to sell the public than thousands of wind turbines.

Concern is mounting about the long-term fate of people who remain close to the country's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant.

Another route is to speed up the quest for other energy reserves. France's Total has branched out into nuclear-power generation.

However, most respondents do not support Bin Kang nuclear power plants other than nuclear power plant outage.

The nuclear power units'pressure vessel is the core part of the nuclear reactor, and the heads are key parts of the pressure vessels.

In Germany, nuclear power has been a contentious, widely felt issue for decades.

At the moment, however, most countries seem happy to develop plans for nuclear power stations.

I hope they share the same mentality and decide to blow up a few of our nuclear power plants before we cast the first stone.

Economic of nuclear power plants is one of the important problems in developing nuclear power.

Elsewhere, Germany and Switzerland have decided to phase out their aging plants and drop nuclear power altogether.

They have officially designated the place around the nuclear power station as unsuitable for human inhabitation.

Guangdong province developed nuclear power first due to its deficient resource.

But no matter how you decide to invest in this resurgence, I think itis pretty obvious that nuclear power has worn out of its doldrums.

Last week, President Asif Zardari returned from China with pledges to help construct two nuclear power plants - but no direct aid.

That was before news of an explosion, and warnings of a possible "meltdown" , at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The United States needs firm government safety regulation because public and private incentives differ when it comes to nuclear power.

If Iran becomes a nuclear power, the pressure on the leading Arab states as well as Turkey to follow suit is likely to prove irresistible.

Both the previous Labour government and its coalition successor have insisted that nuclear power will not receive public subsidy.

The Oshika peninsula, devastated by the tsunami, welcomes visitors by boasting of its two main industries, whaling and nuclear power.

With nuclear power, there is always the fear that there will be a release of harmful radiation.

Both initiatives are partly ways of defusing regional tensions that may follow China's rapid growth as both an economic and a nuclear power.

Toshiba has already mapped out a plan to win orders for 39 nuclear-power plants, including some in the U. S. and China, by 2015.

Graffiti on a wall in the ghost city of Pripyat near the fourth nuclear reactor (background) at the former Chernobyl nuclear-power plant.

The nuclear-power generator knows that it caught the market napping with its surprise offer.

It would not ban flights, or push nuclear power, or force people to go back to living in mud huts.

Test results show that the ant colony optimization can be used in the accurate classification fault location in the nuclear power plants.

Are nuclear power plants not proliferating all over the world, even placed on known fault lines and near large cities?

To meet the ever increasing demand of energy, nuclear power generation provides an answer to the continuous growth in power requirements.

In the UK 50 years of nuclear power have left a legacy of radioactive wastes and problems that need to be treated.

He pointed out that those who reject building nuclear power plants do not understand nuclear energy.

And that resolve can only be generated once it becomes clear that Germany's nuclear power pl .

Nuclear power, in fact, occupies a special place in planning history.

Japan, which has one of the world's most developed nuclear power industries, could probably make a bomb within weeks.

During George Bush's presidency, India and America cemented their new entente with a deal to work together in nuclear power.

Nuclear power plants with capacity of 600 MWe are suitable for the system after the base load increases to a certain level.

The pumps have long been used on nuclear submarines but this is the first ap plication of them on a commercial nuclear power plant.

A: I'd just like to point out that I think too many accidents are happening at nuclear power plants all over the world.

British Columbia has a detailed clean energy plan that includes as one of its tenets no nuclear power.

The environmental conditions around the thermal and nuclear power stations were analyzed.

Means of evaluating and improving the effectiveness of training of nuclear power plant personnel.

Used to be only for people who worked in nuclear power plants or great halls of government.

So the IEA has made a brave, though not wholly convincing, stab at providing this in two areas: nuclear power and energy efficiency.

That's because nuclear power plants come in layers, like an onion.

Nuclear power is part of the "clean energy standard" that Obama outlined in the State of the Union speech in January.

He reckons that, through a combination of energy conservation and more renewable energy, Japan could scrap nuclear power within two decades.

So what idiot decided it was OK to build two nuclear power plants on the coast of a country that has a history of earthquakes and tsunamis?

Sudden interest in "civilian" nuclear power around the oil-rich Gulf shows that Iran's neighbours are hedging their bets.

Environmental and energy-supply issues were behind administration support for new nuclear power plants in the United States, Sell said.

More nuclear power will also require better and cheaper nuclear technologies, capable of displacing existing coal and gas power.

Workers are close to restoring power to cooling systems at a quake-hit Japanese nuclear power plant, officials say.

But sceptics note that rich, single-minded Finland is over budget and behind schedule with its new nuclear-power plant.

First, E. ON would have to sell the only nuclear-power plant wholly owned by Endesa.

The Japan Centre for Economic Research is heavily financed by a federation of electricity utilities, all but one of which use nuclear power.

Safety and economy efficiency of Nuclear Power Plant is always concerned by people.

The robots used in nuclear power plants handle the radioactive materials, preventing human personnel from being exposed to radiation.

North Korea, once a member, won't be there this time: it has left the treaty and declared itself a nuclear power.

Meanwhile, people once again worried about nuclear power plant accident, resulting in a number of reactors to postpone the restart.

[font=Calibri][color=#000000]Yet democracies would be wrong to turn their back on nuclear power.

At Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant, two units are operating and two more are slated to be built by Russia's atomic energy company, Rosatom.

An accident has occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, damaging one of the reactors.

Ministers have become more prescriptive in their announcements, specifying the number of nuclear-power stations they want built and where.

One of the protesters, Yoko Kataoka, says Japan should decommission its nuclear-power plants.

Although the world is eager to fly and thirsts for oil, it has had little appetite for new nuclear power for the past quarter of a century.

Energy: Attitudes to nuclear power are shifting in response to climate change and fears over the security of the supply of fossil fuels.

FORTUNE -- The Obama administration has remained steadfast in its support of nuclear power, despite the disaster at the Fukushima plant.

Yet democracies would be wrong to turn their back on nuclear power.

China accounted for the majority of the pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant to the pump speed are adjustable hydraulic coupling.

He says he has always been told nuclear power was safe, but it was not until now that he realized how dangerous it can be.

Am I the only one who still believes nuclear power is a relatively safe option?