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rs around the united states with local partners a spokeswoman for the energy department said they were surprised by constellation s announcement constellation had been hinting for weeks that it had reservations in september mayo shattuck the company s chief executive speaking at a chamber of commerce luncheon in washington referred to the differences in economics between calvert cliffs and the vogtle plant the georgia plant he said falls under traditional regulations that pass the costs of construction on to power customers calvert cliffs he said was in a merchant environment where companies build at their own risk and sell power at market rates experts have pointed out that the current economic climate is not favorable to nuclear construction in part because the price of natural gas is so low congress has authorized loan guarantees of up to 18 5 billion for new reactors with 8 3 billion now earmarked for vogtle president obama has proposed an additional 36 billion the sums are simply guarantees by the government to repay lenders if the builder cannot do so their cost to the treasury is unclear if the reactors are built as planned and run profitably the cost would be zero in fact the treasury could make a profit on fees paid by the borrowers while the negotiations are secret constellation has been complaining for months that the fee treasury sought was too high a version of this article appeared in print on october 10 2010 on page a21 of the new york edition posted by anonymous at 1 46 am no comments tens of thousands take part in munich anti nuclear protest in petr bechmann s book the history of pi he describes how some state legislatures in the us tried to legislate a value of pi i thought of these attempts when reading this if we could only legislate the sun and wind to blow per the instructions of the load dispatcher http www dw world de dw article 0 6097663 00 html maca en rss en all 1573 rdf tens of thousands of people turned out on the streets of munich on saturday against the nuclear power policy of chancellor angela merkel s coalition government a focus of the protest was the formation of a human chain about 10 kilometers long through the center of the city organizers said that some 50 000 people in all took part in the day s events while police put the number at around 25 000 gabriel claimed the protest showed the nuclear policy was deeply unpopular it is an enormous success for us said marcus greineder chief organizer of the bavaria chain reaction group which organized the protest the heart of the demonstration was the city s odeonsplatz where a stage was set up to rally the crowd public simply does not accept social democratic party spd leader sigmar gabriel said that the turnout revealed the level of opposition to a planned extension to the operating lifespans of germany s nuclear power plants this shows once again that the population simply doesn t accept government s lobby group policy in favor of nuclear firms five bavarian nuclear plants are affected by the extension among them the particularly controversial isar 1 reactor which has been in use since 1977 the isar 1 plant is perhaps the most controversial of bavaria s nuclear sitesseveral political parties and action groups rallied people to join the demonstration calling for a move away from nuclear energy towards renewable energy reprocessing idea abandoned the action was the biggest anti nuclear event in bavaria in decades a rally against plans to build a nuclear reprocessing plant in wackersdorf in 1985 which was later abandoned was attended by 30 000 to 50 000 people organizers say around 100 000 people took part in a demonstration against the planned extensions in berlin in september police put the number at 40 000 a previous german government of the spd and green party decided to close all nuclear plants by 2021 but the current coalition has plans to extend that deadline by an average of 12 years author richard connor dpa afp editor ben knight posted by anonymous at 1 38 am 1 comment why we must embrace sustainable generation of nuclear energy for those who may not have read kenya has held discussions with south korea regarding nuclear energy development whether any orders will materialize may be a while http www standardmedia co ke commentaries insidepage php id 2000019982 cid 15 updated 3 hr s 34 min s ago by william ruto many people seem to harbour apocalyptic associations with the term nuclear once they hear or read it they immediately envision the end of the world as we know it as a result their knee jerk reaction is hostile or at best totally unreceptive however nuclear technology is not just about war in fact nuclear technology is already in use in kenya to solve some of the most pressing problem facing the people and in every day spheres like agriculture and medicine examples include mutation breeding which has been used to develop an internationally acclaimed early maturing high yielding and drought resistant wheat variety in kenya with tremendous potential to solve food security problems in the developing world the technology has been extended to cassava and banana breeding among other crops secondly radioactive medicine and healthcare a critical function of nuclear technology is now being used to treat cancer these successes in use of nuclear technology must spread to energy generation to power our industrial revolution and economic growth as the world population increases and more countries become industrialised demand for energy escalates kenya has one of the fastest growing populations with one million additional people every year 80 per cent of kenyans depend on wood fuel increased power generation would ease the immense and disastrous pressure on our forest and tree cover without a doubt nuclear technology is the most viable tool to access cheap clean energy on the basis on least cost analysis additionally if kenya is to realise industrial revolution and grow the economy by 10 per cent as envisaged in vision 2030 access to affordable sustainable and clean energy is no longer an academic matter a programmatic and strategic consideration of all the benefits of nuclear energy must be the centrepiece of the national development agenda today s energy options include hydrocarbon based sources oil coal and gas renewable sources wind hydro solar biomass and geothermal renewable sources indeed ameliorate greenhouse gas emissions and other deleterious impacts but are expensive and liable to compound the cost of sustainable development hydrocarbon based energy sources significantly contribute to global warming and climate change in 2008 alone the top 20 greenhouse gas emitters in the world released 24 trillion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere there is a correlation between leading emitters and fast growing economies implying that energy directly fuels development the kyoto protocol limits levels of carbon emission per country while reserve depletion drives oil and gas prices higher as economic growth increases the demand for energy on the other hand this is the full cycle of the fossil fuel conundrum it presents no happy ending in environmental and economic terms quite clearly in very short time indeed there will be worldwide resurgence of nuclear power out of need not choice it is imperative that kenya moves with urgency to build full capacity for the sustainable generation of nuclear energy that is why the office of the prime minister is set to coordinate an inter ministerial energy industrialisation environment and higher education committee spearheaded by the national economic and social council and that is just the beginning development stakeholders must change their attitudes towards nuclear technology and begin to see opportunities instead of threats development instead of destruction and blessings instead of disasters the writer is minister for higher education posted by anonymous at 1 10 am no comments wednesday july 21 2010 china starts up 1st 4th generation nuclear reactor fast reactors typically use a molten alkali metal such as sodium as the coolant these reactors allow for higher energy neutrons that can be used for breeding or transmutation of actinide fission products http www chinadaily com cn china 2010 07 21 content_11032957 htm xinhua updated 2010 07 21 23 49 beijing chinese scientists have succeeded in testing the country s first experimental fourth generation nuclear reactor an expert said here on wednesday the successful start up of the china experimental fast reactor cefr marked a breakthrough in china s fourth generation nuclear technology and made china the eighth country in the world to own the technology zhang donghui general manager of the cefr project told xinhua over phone china s existing 11 nuclear power generating units all use second generation of nuclear power generation technology the country started the construction of its first third generation pressurized water reactors using ap1000 technologies developed by us based westinghouse in 2009 compared with the third generation reactors which have an utility rate of uranium of just one percent cefr boasts an utility rate of more than 60 percent a new recycling technology called pyroprocessing is also used to close the fuel cycle by separating the unused fuel from most of the radioactive waste the cefr is safer more environment friendly and more economic than its predecessors zhang said posted by anonymous at 8 52 pm 6 comments friday june 11 2010 king says tonga should move to nuclear power http www cnbc com id 37632317 by the associated press 11 jun 2010 03 33 am et tonga the impoverished south pacific island nation of tonga should move quickly toward nuclear power as its main source of electricity its king said friday opening the nation s parliament king george tupou v said while energy hungry tonga is planning to produce half its electricity from renewable energy within three years nature is dictating that we must look to nuclear energy king george said his government is following a u s plan aimed at developing small 30 megawatt nuclear plants to curb electricity costs and reduce dependence on expensive imported fuels should this development prove successful it would be of enormous value in protecting our environment and reducing our use of diesel fuel he told the lawmakers he did not indicate how the near bankrupt nation would fund a nuclear power plant late last year officials produced a tonga energy road map that sets a goal of producing 50 percent of the country s electricity from renewable energy sources including solar and wind nuclear power was not part of their planning currently 95 percent of tonga s 20 to 30 megawatts of annual power consumption is produced by generators using high cost diesel fuel just 5 percent of the electricity is produced by small solar plants located on outer islands of the archipelago while no south pacific states including australia and new zealand have nuclear power plants king george noted that building a nuclear station in tonga would also help solve its need for clean drinking water through desalination tonga s main water sources are underground and have been polluted in recent years by fertilizers and pesticides he said the government maintains that nuclear power is our best hope of resolving our water problem as we can produce abundant supplies through desalination very cheaply he said the quicker we move in this direction the better king george was widely known as a rich and eccentric playboy during the reign of his father king taufa ahau tupou iv who died in september 2006 he has since implemented democratic reforms in the near feudal monarchy with the country s voters set to choose a new government in elections later this year however tonga faces mounting poverty and unemployment among its youth and relies heavily on aid and money remitted by citizens living abroad the world bank has said 40 percent of the nation s 101 000 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