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With a lack of conventional energy resources, Japan has sought to establish a nuclear fuel cycle. This would involve reprocessing plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel to produce fresh nuclear fuel. After a series of problems, the plan is on the brink of falling apart, however.
THE European Union would be prepared to match a Japanese offer to pay a greater share of the construction costs of the world’s first prototype nuclear fusion reactor in order to host the project, an EU source said late on Tuesday.
Japan’s electricity industry is in turmoil. This may have a big impact on the world’s energy markets
PARIS – Nuclear power, its image darkened by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, appears to be making a comeback of sorts in Europe as the Continent struggles to meet energy needs, faces higher bills for imported oil and honours its pledge to cut carbon pollution.
Why I quit the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
Official figures published in Jakarta last month show Indonesia became a net importer of crude oil for the first time in February and March.
DESIGNERS and developers of nuclear power stations seeking career opportunities at the beginning of the 21st century are looking to Asia.
Global warming is now advancing so swiftly that only a massive expansion of nuclear power as the world’s main energy source can prevent it overwhelming civilisation, the scientist and celebrated Green guru, James Lovelock, says.
In Japan and the United States, many fear the dangers of nuclear power — but who in charge cares?
Europe is still confident that it will be chosen to host Iter, the world’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor.
EIGHTEEN years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, as many as 359 Welsh farms are still restricted in moving sheep as a result.
European Commission regulators and the U.K. government are close to an agreement on a 1.5 billion-pound ($2.7 billion) state bailout for British Energy Plc, the country’s biggest power generator, people familiar with the situation said.
