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.
The results were: n198, or 60 percent, oppose building more nuclear power plants in the U.S.
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.
INSIDE: Japans bank puts $184B into markets 6A No slowdown at Putnam Toyota plant 6A What about U.S. nuclear plants? 8A TAGAJO, Japan - Radiation spewed today from a crippled nuclear power plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan in a dramatic escalation of the 4-day-old catastrophe that prompted the government to tell people within 19 miles to stay indoors to avoid exposure.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. nuclear energy facilities have a long history of successfully and safely responding to natural challenges. See http://www.nei.org/keyissues/ safetyandsecurity/factsheets/through-the-decades-the-history-of-us- nuclear-energy-facilities-responding-to-natural-challenges. Nuclear power plants operating in 31 states provide electricity to one of every five U.S. homes and businesses. The following is a summary of U.S. nuclear power plant performance during Hurricane Irene.
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