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Iran seeks to speed up nuclear activity: IAEA
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is trying to accelerate its uranium enrichment program, a U.N. nuclear report showed, but experts said it was unclear when Tehran's new machines could start operating and how efficiently they would work. The Islamic state's...Tags: Iran, Israel, Emergency Incidents, Iran's Nuclear Program, Tehran (Iran)
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U.N. report stokes concern over Iran's nuclear program: EU
ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran's expansion of sensitive nuclear activity breaks United Nations resolutions and increases concerns about whether its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, the European Union said on Thursday. A U.N. nuclear agency report...Tags: Politics, Nuclear Policy, International Organizations, Iran, United Nations
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Iran seeks to speed up nuclear activity, capacity unclear
Reuters* Iran installing advanced centrifuges - IAEA * New machines could enrich uranium faster * Launch date, efficiency unclear, experts say By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA, May 23 (Reuters) - Iran is trying to accelerate its uranium enrichment programme, a U.N....Tags: Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Policy, Politics, International Organizations, Israel
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The real threat to our homeland
We recently learned that the Pentagon will spend $1 billion to bolster U.S. missile defenses in response to "irresponsible and reckless provocations" by North Korea. This money, as announced by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, would add 14 new anti-...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Defense Equipment, U.S. Department of Defense, Finance, Emergency Incidents
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Iran pushes ahead with nuclear plant that worries West
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that Western experts say could eventually produce plutonium for a nuclear weapon if Tehran decides to make one, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday. In another...Tags: Iraq, Defense Equipment, Iran, Heavy Engineering, Israel
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NRC to inspect Duke North Carolina Harris nuclear reactor
ReutersMay 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Wednesday that it was launching a special inspection at Duke Energy Corp's Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina over a "quarter-inch flaw" on the plant's reactor vessel head....Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Duke Energy Corporation, Raleigh
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Time for greens to embrace nukes
For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear power provides 70 percent of all the greenhouse gas-...
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Iran pushes ahead with new nuclear plant that worries West
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that Western experts say could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb if it decides to make one, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday. Iran has...Tags: Nuclear Weapons, Politics, Nuclear Policy, Israel, Iran
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Bulgarian energy firm BEH to meet investors for 250 mln Euro bond
ReutersSOFIA, May 22 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's BEH, the state largest energy holding company, will meet with potential investors in its 250-million-euro ($321.81 million) bond issue in late July and early August, its chief executive said on Wednesday. BEH, which...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Bulgaria, Bonds
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Plant repairs done by early summer
COVERT -- Operators of the idled Palisades Nuclear Plant in southwestern Michigan say repairs to a tank that leaked slightly radioactive water into Lake Michigan will take until early summer to complete. New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. idled the plant...Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Entergy Corporation
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Adding Hydropower To State Energy Mix Makes Sense
A good bill to get more clean energy into Connecticut has been held up in the House. That's too bad. The House should pass the bill, which has already passed the Senate. It would likely lower Connecticut's sky-high electric rates while decreasing the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Electricity Production and Distribution, Renewable Energy, Global Expansion, Northeast Utilities
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LETTER: Unsafe Spent Nuclear Fuel
For over 50 years people have opposed and thwarted storing spent nuclear fuel under Yucca Mountain in Nevada -- but Millstone gets permission to store hundreds of tons of it above ground at its site in Waterford. This stuff contains extremely...
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