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Public invited to hear uranium-mining study results
May 15 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Elisabeth Hulette The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. - People interested in proposals to lift a 30-year moratorium on uranium mining in Virginia will have a chance later this month to hear more in person. More...
Five-Party Arrangement Extends Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Enrichment Operations
BETHESDA, Md., May 15, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) today entered into a multi-party arrangement with Energy Northwest, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) to extend uranium enrichment operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Ky. More...
Beaver Valley Power Station Returns to Service After Refueling Outage
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Employees safely return Plant Hatch's Unit 2 to service following planned maintenance outage
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire - Unit 2 of the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, Ga., has resumed generating electricity after a successful, planned maintenance outage. Electricity production resumed today at 5:25 a.m. ET. More...
Price of Vogtle expansion could increase $900 million
May 11 - The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. - Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power and other Plant Vogtle owners are disputing proposed adjustments that could add $900 million to the $14 billion cost of completing two new reactors in time for their scheduled debuts in 2016 and 2017. More...
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NPP – Part 2 – Remote NPPs - Transfer of energy

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Co and Co2

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A Few Energy Questions

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More U for India's Hungry Reactors: Tummalapalle Commissioned

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Turkey’s Nuclear Power Plant Controversy

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Post Fukushima Disaster; The Fate of Nuclear Energy

By Shehu Khaleel
Why the heated attack between the pro-nuclear and pro-renewable energy experts intensifies after the Fukushima incidence? The two groups had been attacking each other for quite a long time.

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After the Coal Plants Close, Where Will the U.S. Get Cheap Electricity?

By Mark Morabito
According to ExxonMobil's newest energy report The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040, "By 2040, worldwide electricity demand will be 80 percent higher than it was in 2010," and ".electricity generation will account for more...
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The New Power Mix in Germany -- What Does It Mean For the Rest of Europe?

By Nigel Blackaby
In the wake of Fukushima disaster, energy experts now agree that securing Europe's future electricity supply will require an increasing convergence between existing fossil fuel sources and the fast-growing renewable generation sector. Nowhere is this more...
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Is it Time for California to Phase Out Nuclear Power?

By Tam Hunt
Italy recently became the fourth nation to pledge to phase out nuclear power since Japan's Fukushima disaster. Italy accomplished this feat by a popular referendum, soon after Germany did the same in its legislature (Bundestag). more...
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Nuclear-Based Electricity and Economic Theory

By Ferdinand E. Banks
The purpose of this article is to extend the short paper I presented as part of an energy 'debate' at the recent 'Singapore Energy Week'. What I attempted to do in that talk was to more...
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