Tagged: Nuclear Energy & News
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Fukushima at increased earthquake risk, scientists claim News
15.02.2012 Seismic risk increased at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March last year, a new scientific study... -
CERN gives LHC an energy lift as part of Higgs boson quest News
14.02.2012 Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have announced they are going to run the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with a beam of energy of 4 TeV this year... -
Energy and clean-tech challenges for planet Earth News
19.10.2011 Paris was the scene this week for a two-day International Energy Agency (IEA) meeting, when energy ministers from around the globe converged to talk about pressing issues such... -
Bill Gates tweets on need for 'energy miracles' News
17.11.2011 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates yesterday tweeted “Wanted: energy miracles counter threat of catastrophic climate change. Innovation can make this possible”. He’s aiming to drive...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Life Sciences, Green Computing, Green, Government, Energy, Economy, Green Tech, Education, Supply Chain Management -
Governments must invest in low-carbon technologies, IEA warns News
10.11.2011 The world is locking itself into an unsustainable energy future, as it heads for an insecure, inefficient and high-carbon energy system, the International Energy Agency (IEA)...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, IT Organisation, Green Computing, Green, Government, Financial, Energy, Education, Economy, Green Tech -
Pentagon fails in quest to fly fastest-ever hypersonic aircraft News
12.08.2011 A hypersonic experimental plane launched by the Pentagon yesterday aboard a Minotaur IV rocket got lost from its radar after just nine minutes of flying, dashing the US...Tags: US, Nuclear Energy, -
Blackstone to invest €2.5bn in German wind farms News
05.08.2011 Private equity firm Blackstone Group is to invest €1.2bn in ‘Meerwind’, which is set to be Germany’s largest ever offshore wind farm when its completed in 2013. Blackstone has... -
Police arrest man for building nuclear reactor in kitchen News
02.08.2011 Police in Sweden have arrested a 31-year-old man after he asked the Swedish Radiation Authority whether it was legal to build a nuclear reactor in one's kitchen. -
Robots sent into Fukushima nuclear plant News
20.04.2011 Robots are being deployed at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in order to measure radiation levels and other conditions after the recent earthquake in Japan. -
Apple has least green data centres, Greenpeace says News
21.04.2011 Greenpeace has released its How Dirty is Your Data report, looking at global cloud companies’ energy footprint, with Apple coming out lowest in its clean-energy index due to its...Tags: Apple, HP, Cloud, Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, IBM, Twitter, Amazon, Clean Energy, Smart Grid, Nuclear Energy, Energy Efficiency, Electricity -
Ó Brolcháin urges Government to rule out nuclear options News
16.03.2011 Galway Senator Niall Ó Brolcháin urges the new Government to focus on renewable energy resources and to rule out nuclear power generation as an option for Ireland. -
€1.2bn EU research wind, solar and nuclear energy schemes expected News
29.11.2010 Three new pan-European energy research infrastructures have been announced by the Research Ministers of the European Union Member States and Associated Countries (RMEUMSAC) and... -
Nuclear waste disposal directive set out for EU News
04.11.2010 The European Commission (EC) has proposed a set of safety standards for the disposal of hazardous wastes, such as nuclear waste and medicines, across the European Union (EU). -
Debate on future energy in Ireland goes nuclear News
20.11.2009 There is no logical justification for the ban on the use of nuclear power in Ireland, according to Dr Tom O’Flaherty, former chief executive of the Radiological Protection...Categories: Clean Tech