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April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In March 2011, Japan was hit with a tsunami as a result of a magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake. The tsunami waves reached heights of 133 feet and traveled about 10 kilometers inland. The earthquake was so enormous that it actually shifted the main island of Japan 8 feet east and shifted the Earth on its axis by 4 – 10 inches. As if that weren't bad enough, the tsunami caused the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In a reversal of a policy announced just last week, the Japanese government has stopped short of declaring 2040 the deadline for ending all nuclear power production in the country. It is widely believed that pressure from business groups, who opposed the original plan based on the potential economic damage it might cause, led to the change. Instead of a hard deadline, the government said it would “take into consideration” the...

SHIPPINGPORT, Pa., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC) today announced plans to expand used nuclear fuel storage capacity at its two-unit Beaver Valley Power Station in Shippingport, Pa. Under the plan, above-ground, airtight steel and concrete canisters will be installed that provide cooling to used fuel assemblies through natural air circulation. The canisters will be stored on a thick concrete pad located within Beaver Valley's highly...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Since 1945, the Japanese people have been haunted by the specter of radioactive fallout. Yet despite the disturbing memories of the two innocuously dubbed nuclear warheads Fat Man and Little Boy, the island nation has embraced the power of the atom and currently depends on nuclear reactors for 30 percent of its total energy needs. However, Japan’s nuclear-sensitive psyche was rocked last year by the series of catastrophes at the...

DD&R 2012 to Feature Sharing of Best Practices and Optimal Management Techniques LaGrange Park, IL (PRWEB) June 14, 2012 The American Nuclear Society (ANS) Annual Conference, to be held June 24-28 in Chicago, IL, will feature an embedded topical meeting on Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization (DD&R 2012), ANS President Eric Loewen, PhD, announced today. “DD&R 2012 is the premiere forum to discuss the social, regulatory, scientific, and technical aspects of...

A Japanese government panel warned that there could be power outages this summer if three Japanese utilities do not get much needed energy from nuclear reactors that have been on shutdown since the Fukushima crisis more than a year ago. Of the three, Kansai Electric Power Co. could face the biggest shortage of 14.9 percent, as it is the most reliant on nuclear power, the panel reported on May 12. In face of the potential power shortages, Japan is urging businesses and residences to cut...

AKRON, Ohio, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- James H. Lash, president of FirstEnergy Generation and chief nuclear officer for FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), has been elected to the board of directors for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an independent, non-profit electric industry research and development organization. Lash's term expires in April 2013. With 38 years of professional experience, Lash leads FirstEnergy Corp.'s (NYSE: FE) generation...

With news this week of additional radioactive leaks from Fukushima nuclear power plants, the impact on the ocean of releases of radioactivity from the plants remains unclear. But a new study by U.S. and Japanese researchers analyzes the levels of radioactivity discharged from the facility in the first four months after the accident and draws some basic conclusions about the history of contaminant releases to the ocean. The study, conducted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution chemist...

PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A joint venture of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC), AMEC, Costain and Babcock announced today that it has been awarded a contract worth up to $109 million (GBP67 million) over four years, by Magnox Limited at the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in North Wales, United Kingdom. The work, awarded to the ACTUS joint venture as part of an intermediate level waste (ILW) framework contract, involves decommissioning across three waste...

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- James H. Lash, president of FirstEnergy Generation and chief nuclear officer for FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), has been elected to the board of directors for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an independent, non-profit electric industry research and development organization. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110824/CL57177 ) With 38 years of professional experience, Lash currently leads FirstEnergy Corp.'s...