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The results were: n198, or 60 percent, oppose building more nuclear power plants in the U.S.
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LOS ANGELES - Japan's nuclear accident has focused attention on the U.S. practice of packing spent-fuel pools at power plants far beyond their capacity, which some scientists call a serious compromise in safety. When the first U.S. nuclear power plants went online more than half a century ago, utilities built pools next to the reactors to store their radioactive waste, like the ones at Japan's Fukushima plant that overheated and probably leaked radiation into the environment.
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S. officials are investigating reports that Iranian and Venezuelan diplomats in Mexico were involved in planned cyberattacks against U.S. targets, including nuclear power plants. Allegations about the cyberplot were aired last week in a documentary on the Spanish-language TV network Univision, which included secretly recorded footage of Iranian and Venezuelan diplomats being briefed on the planned attacks and promising to pass information to their governments.
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RUSSIA OVEREXTENDED Russia is unlikely to fulfill contract obligations for the construction of more than a dozen nuclear power plants in six countries, including China and Iran, according to the U.S. ambassador in Moscow.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1274, `` of Postaccident Engineered-Safety-Feature Atmosphere Cleanup Systems in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants.'' This guide applies to the design, inspection, and testing of air filtration and iodine adsorption units of engineered-safety-feature (ESF) atmosphere cleanup systems in light-water-cooled nuclear power plants.
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Last November, [Dennis Spurgeon], assistant secretary for nuclear energy, assured the congressional Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that the program will "promote a significant, wide-scale use of nuclear energy in a safe and secure manner ... while decreasing the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation and effectively addressing the challenge of nuclear waste disposal. It's been three decades since a nuclear power plant has been built in the United States. Now, under the 2005 Energy Policy Act, the Energy Department is working hard to lure new proposals, adding billions in tax breaks and "cost overrun guarantees" and streamlining its licensing process with four ready-touse designs, early site permits and a combined construction permit and operating license. The 104 nuclear powe...
...The 104 nuclear power plants currently in the U.S. generate about 20 percent of...
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The USA Today story "GOP lawmaker critical of Energy guarantees for electric car maker" (Oct. 31 and TribLIVE.com) contains a number of inaccuracies regarding Westinghouse, government loan guarantees for nuclear energy and Congressman Tim Murphy. First, it states that Murphy introduced legislation this spring to provide $450 million in loan guarantees to Westinghouse for construction of U.S. nuclear power plants. In reality, the loan guarantees, which actually date to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, will be available only to utilities that build the plants using Westinghouse or competing designs. Moreover, the guarantees will require the utilities to first pay the government a fee -- amounting to tens of millions of dollars -- to cover the estimated and relatively low risk of default.
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WASHINGTON - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched a two- step review of U.S. nuclear power plants in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan. The commission voted Wednesday to set up a task force, made up of senior staff and former NRC experts, that will conduct short-term and long-term analyses of lessons learned from Japan. The reports also will address how lessons can be applied to the 104 U.S. nuclear reactors.
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President Bush yesterday signed a sweeping energy bill that he said would spur construction of nuclear-power plants in the U.S. for the first time in a generation. America has not ordered a nuclear plant since the 1970s," Mr. Bush told an audience in New Mexico before signing the legislation.
