Nuclear power news update 9/6

Japan Axing Nuclear for Renewables Means Missing Carbon Targets Businessweek Phasing out nuclear power in Japan will cost the country the equivalent of $622 billion to build a power grid around renewable energy and means it will fail to meet a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That's an estimate from the government as ...

Florida regulators holding nuclear costs hearing Businessweek (AP) — The Florida Public Service Commission opened a hearing Wednesday on whether to pass the costs of incomplete nuclear power plant projects to customers of the state's two largest electric utilities but decided immediately to delay action on a ...

Japan to Reduce Nuclear Power to Below 15% by 2030, Kyodo Says Bloomberg Japan wants to reduce its nuclear energy supply to less than 15 percent of its energy mix by 2030, the Kyodo News agency said today, citing a government energy policy draft. The draft said the country eventually wants to reduce nuclear to zero from ...

TEXT-Fitch: Polish Nuclear JV spreads risk, accelerates project Reuters Sept 06 - A possible joint venture between four Polish state-controlled companies will share the risks and speed up the progress of the country's first nuclear power plant, Fitch Ratings says. Yesterday, the largest Polish utility PGE Polska Grupa ...

Report: Nearby Nuclear Power Plant Helped Cedar Rapids During Flood KCRG CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A new national study suggests that no lives were lost in Cedar Rapids' flood disaster of 2008 because of the proximity of the Duane Arnold Energy Center to Cedar Rapids and the requirement that comes with a nuclear power plant in ...

Dumb and Dumber: Obama's 'Smart Power' Foreign Policy Not Smart at All Huffington Post (blog) Power was not always Obama's strong suit. When he ran for president in 2008, he appeared to friend and foe alike as Mr. Softy. He wanted out of the war in Iraq. He was no fan of nuclear weapons. He favored carrots over sticks when approaching America's ...

Europe Power-Spot prices diverge, Germany down Reuters German solar, wind production to grow sharply * German day ahead base at three-week low * French nuclear reactor Blayais 3 offline unscheduled * German industrial orders rise in July FRANKFURT, Sept 6 (Reuters) - German spot electricity prices declined ...

Haryana govt sets the ball rolling on nuclear power plant India Today Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and the Haryana government on Thursday set the ball rolling for constructing a nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district. Government authorities, flanked by the officials of NPCIL and ...

Nuclear-Construction Fee: Protect Progress Customers The Ledger If there was ever a question that the Florida Legislature should revisit a 2006 law that allows the state's power companies to charge their customers ahead of time for the costs of planning and designing nuclear power plants, Progress Energy Florida's ...