U.S. nuclear industry inches toward new construction
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SPRING CITY, Tennessee  - When the Watts Bar Unit One here switched on in 1996 after a 23-year construction ordeal, it was the last of a generation of U.S. commercial nuclear power plants to emerge from a building cycle marred by massive cost over-runs and canceled plant orders.
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PICKERING, Ont. (CP) - Sophisticated technology is everywhere in the Pickering nuclear power plant but one reason the revamp of the facility's Unit 1 reactor is on schedule involves the old-fashioned pen and paper.
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China plans to build reactors on a scale and pace comparable to the peak of the United States' nuclear energy push in the 1970's.
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The Cabinet has agreed in principle to approve a new generation of nuclear power stations, it emerges.
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As talk of building new power plants rises sharply, a new fleet of coal-fired power plants and a revival of nuclear construction are both looking tougher due to rising costs.
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The Canadian government is rushing through legislation to reopen a nuclear reactor that produces most of the worldâs supply of a medically important diagnostic isotope.
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THE CLIMATE for building new nuclear power plants in the United States hasn't been this good for decades. The Bush administration is solidly behind them. Some prominent foes have changed sides, embracing uranium-derived electricity as the best available answer to global warming.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec. 15--SAN FRANCISCO -- Opening of a 3-mile trail into coastal lands north of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant will take an additional six to 12 months to complete because of disagreements over the extent of access.
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By ERICA WERNER  WASHINGTON - The Energy Department unveiled legislation Tuesday to spur construction of a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada and increase its capacity. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., immediately vowed to block the bill.
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More nuclear power stations may need to be built in Wales, trade unionists meeting in Cardiff will be told.
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The United States should begin construction of two new heavy-duty icebreakers, the National Research Council said Tuesday.
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France's Areva CEPFi.PA is among   several companies interested in vying for a nuclear recycling   project in the United States, the world's largest maker of   nuclear reactors said.
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A U.S.-initiated project that aims to reduce the dangers of nuclear proliferation and control radioactive waste gained support Sunday, as 11 more nations signed on with original members Russia, China, France and Japan.
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Future energy security will require development of new nuclear power plants, coal that is less polluting and tougher federal requirements on automobile fuel economy, a nonpartisan panel of energy experts says.
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With 20 percent of the world's nuclear reactors in seismically active zones and the remote but real possibility of earthquakes just about everywhere else, nuclear power plants are designed with shaking in mind.
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NEW ELLENTON, S.C. &#151; Years ago, engineers for the federal government here studied hydrogen for its bomb-boosting capabilities. Now, scientists are working toward developing an economy that runs on the element.
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Does access to fuel ease nations toward nuclear weapons? Rising demand has nonproliferation experts unsettled.