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In the wake of an engine room fire that crippled Costa Allegra and sidelined the ship indefinitely as it undergoes repairs, Costa Cruises has announced that it will be redeploying the Red Sea-based Costa Voyager to cover for the out-of-service vessel.
Read More »Japan Utilities Push to Extend Life of Nuclear Plants
By Kaori Kaneko and Osamu Tsukimori TOKYO (Reuters) - Two Japanese utilities moved on Friday to extend the life of reactors at a pair of central coastal nuclear plants, fuelling already fierce debate over energy policy in the wake of the Fukushima radiation crisis. [More]
Read More »Nuclear waste storage a top issue for NRC
By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. nuclear safety regulator is studying whether to require plants to more quickly move radioactive waste out of pools as part of a review on safety in the wake of Japan's nuclear disaster, its chairman said on Monday. [More]
Read More »Neutron dance: What happens at the heart of a nuclear reactor?
As officials in Japan deal with the accumulation of radioactive seawater near the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of last month's earthquake and tsunami, the U.S. Department of Energy is investing in fundamental research it hopes can be used to build safer nuclear reactors and avoid reactor emergencies. [More]
Read More »China may freeze nuclear approvals until 2012
BEIJING, April 13 (Reuters) - China's suspension of nuclearproject approvals, put in place in the wake of Japan's nuclear [More]
Read More »China may freeze nuclear approvals until 2012
BEIJING, April 13 (Reuters) - China's suspension of nuclearproject approvals, put in place in the wake of Japan's nuclear [More]
Read More »Overturned scientific explanation may be good news for nuclear fusion
Flat out wrong. Thats what a team of Duke researchers has discovered, much to its surprise, about a long-accepted explanation of how nuclei collide to produce charged particles for electricity a process receiving intense interest lately from scientists, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the wake of Japans nuclear crisis.
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