Working overnight into Sunday, engineers have successfully restored power to cooling pumps in two reactors at the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the first...
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Japan finds higher-than-normal amounts of radioactivity in food up to 90 miles from crippled Fukushima reactors
TOKYO — As Japan edged forward in its battle to contain the damage at its ravaged nuclear power plants on Saturday, the government said it had found higher than normal...
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Japan lays power cable in race to stop radiation
(Reuters) - Exhausted engineers attached a power cable to the outside of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear station on Saturday in a race to prevent deadly radiation...
Japan weighs need to bury nuclear plant
(Reuters) - Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be a last resort to prevent a catastrophic radiation...
South Africa cabinet approves 20-year energy masterplan, commits to nuclear power
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa sees renewable and nuclear energy accounting for two-thirds of new power stations built over the next 20 years as it seeks to cut its...
Oil and gas industry creates offshore safety institute
The oil and gas industry's main trade group will launch a new, Houston-based offshore safety institute, similar to a recommendation by a presidential commission that...
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U.S. nuclear plants store more spent fuel than Japan's
WASHINGTON — U.S. nuclear plants use the same sort of pools to cool spent nuclear-fuel rods as the ones now in danger of spewing radiation at Japan's Fukushima...
New York nuclear plant's future shaky as fears grow
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New worries about a New York nuclear plant's vulnerability to earthquakes could hand the state's governor an opportunity to try to close the...
Dems push regulators to crack down on oil market speculation
A dozen Senate Democrats are pushing U.S. commodities regulators to crack down on what they call excessive speculation in oil futures markets.The lawmakers — led by Sen....
Trackers seek more data on the release of radioactive material
As teams of Japanese engineers scramble to prevent a disastrous release of radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear plant, scientists are already preparing for a...
Google backs biofuels, via CoolPlanetBiofuels
Google Ventures has made its first biofuels investment. On Thursday afternoon the venture arm of the search giant announced that it has invested in a startup called...
EPA extends deadline for reporting CO2 emissions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it has extended the deadline for thousands of companies to report their greenhouse gas...
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