Posts Tagged ‘nuclear power’

French Nuclear Technology Export Threatened By EU Safety Regulators

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 19:55 By Rajeev Saxena

The only country in the world that extracts more than three quarters of all the electric power consumed from nuclear reactors, France has pressed the panic button due to host of safety concerns regarding its nuclear reactors and the fact that, many parts of France might be affected by severe power cuts. As of now, [...]

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Green Energy Under Black Skies: China’s Immediate Future

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 21:01 By GSerrano

China’s black skies and other forms of pollution were fully revealed to the world as the country beamed the coverage of the Beijing Olympics. Getting tremendous criticism from the rest of the world for what people saw, China decided to further augment and even expedite its environmental programs and projects.
While China is the world’s leading [...]

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Well, Would You Even Bother with a Nuclear War’s Carbon Footprint?

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 3:33 By GSerrano

A new study in the journal Energy & Environmental Science says that nearly 700m tons of CO2 would be released into the Earth’s atmosphere by even the smallest nuclear conflict, comparatively measured as more than UK’s annual emission. But there are some benefits of a nuclear war, too. It will also send up 313m tons [...]

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