Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:06 +0000
Nuclear power plants are still being dismantled, and the business of decommissioning remains strong, but the need for more baseload power and emissions-free generation has some companies ready to restart idled
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 02:10:47 +0000
The world’s largest nuclear power plant, among the facilities taken offline after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, could be nearing a restart. Japanese media reported that on March 14, […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:11:30 +0000
Japan’s energy mix is in flux as the country slowly brings idled nuclear reactors online. The 2011 Fukushima disaster upended the nation’s power generation, resulting in more reliance on coal and natural
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Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:40:44 +0000
After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident, Japan suspended operations at all of its remaining 48 nuclear power reactors by 2013 and … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:38:04 +0000
GE Vernova announced it will supply the turbines for an onshore wind farm being developed in Japan, an energy project that is part of the effort to support industry in […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 14:19:02 +0000
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power has restarted another reactor at its Takahama nuclear power plant, the 12threactor to be returned to service in that country since the Fukushima disaster in March […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:29:37 +0000
Efforts by Japanese nuclear fuel manufacturers to develop accident tolerant fuel (ATF) materials are making progress, and their commercialization is currently expected between 2030 and 2035 after key
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Read moreCredit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:35:49 +0000
The Fukushima prefecture has been a ghost town since late 2011. Though the levels of radiation have gone down to more than acceptable levels, people have refused to come back to the area, mostly fearing the radioactive contamination of ground water. The area, however, has become a centerpiece for renewable energy and a model for […]
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:24:41 +0000
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said his country’s push to be carbon-neutral by 2050 must include construction of more nuclear power generation, in a reversal of his predecessor’s call to move away from the technology. Yoon, speaking Jan. 16 at an event in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said his country would renew its […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:15:00 +0000
The Japanese have been hesitant to re-embrace nuclear power following the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, but there are indications that nuclear power could ramp up again in
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