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☆ U.S. grants $1.1 bln to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Timothy Gardner | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Diablo is the last operating nuclear plant in California. The Biden administration believes nuclear power is critical in curbing climate change and wants to keep plants open ahead of the development of next-generation reactors. Poppe said the plant is also ordering more uranium fuel for the reactor, and dry casks for storing nuclear waste. Some politicians who have been wary of problems associated with nuclear waste have come out in support of the Civil Nuclear Credit program. Holtec International, which in May bought the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, said on Friday that DOE rejected its application for funding.

☆ Japan's Daiichi Sankyo says mRNA COVID vaccine successful in booster trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TOKYO, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Japan's Daiichi Sankyo Co (4568.T) said on Tuesday its mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine had reached its primary endpoint in a trial of the shot as a booster. Based on the results, Daiichi Sankyo will file a new-drug application to regulators in January 2023. Approval would give Japan a home-grown source for mRNA vaccines, which have made up the bulk of its COVID inoculations to date. Japan has relied on imports of shots developed by U.S.-based drugmakers Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Moderna Inc (MRNA.O). Daiichi Sankyo's shares jumped on the news, rising 3.3% versus a 0.1% advance in the benchmark Nikkei (.n225) gauge.

☆ At U.N., Micronesia denounces Japan plan to release Fukushima water into Pacific
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A worker, wearing protective suits and masks, takes notes in front of storage tanks for radioactive water at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toru HanaiUNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The president of the Pacific island state of Micronesia denounced at the United Nations on Thursday Japan's decision to discharge what he called nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the Pacific Ocean. Japan said in July that its nuclear regulators had approved a plan to release into the Pacific ocean water used to cool reactors in the aftermath of the March 2011 Fukushima disaster. Panuelo also highlighted the threat posed by climate change, to which Pacific island states are particularly vulnerable. He called on geopolitical rivals the United States and China to consider it "a non-political and non-competitive issue for cooperation."

☆ U.S. FDA panel votes against Spectrum's lung cancer drug
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, U.S., August 29, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File PhotoSept 22 (Reuters) - Advisers to the U.S Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted against recommending Spectrum Pharmaceuticals' (SPPI.O) experimental drug for the treatment of patients with a form of non-small cell lung cancer. The FDA panel voted 9 to 4 against the oral drug, poziotinib, citing marginal efficacy, high level of toxicities, and lack of dose optimization. Poziotinib is intended to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a rare genetic mutation that affects 2-4% of total patients with NSCLC. There is no prior FDA-approved treatment for the rare lung cancer, and the patients suffering from the disease are given treatments similar to those with non-small cell lung cancer without the mutation.

☆ Japanese support for a nuclear restart is at its highest since Fukushima disaster, says former IEA executive director
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-17 | by ( Lee Ying Shan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

In a first for Japan since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, public support for a nuclear restart is now at more than 60%, said a former executive director of the International Energy Agency, citing a possible energy shortage and a "very cold winter" as reasons. "Japanese public support's more than 60%, and it was the first time ever that support of nuclear power is starting to come over 50% after (the) Fukushima accident," said Nobuo Tanaka, now the chair of the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced in May that the country will take firm steps to restart idled nuclear power plants to stabilize energy supply and prices. In 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami, which killed nearly 16,000 people and caused the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Though there have been reservations among the Japanese public over the use of nuclear energy, particularly when it comes to the issue of safety, Tanaka said the future of nuclear power is now safer, and stressed the importance of minimizing risk and maintaining "peaceful use."

☆ Un nou dezastru nuclear s-ar putea produce la centrala de la Cernobâl; Cum încearcă autoritățile să-l prevină
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-10 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: GettyUn nou dezastru nuclear s-ar putea produce la centrala de la Cernobâl; Cum încearcă autoritățile să-l previnăCentrala nucleară de la Cernobâl a fost distrusă în urmă cu zeci de ani într-un oribil accident radioactiv. „Este ca jarul într-o groapă pentru grătar”, a declarat pentru Science, chimistul nuclear al Universității din Sheffield, Neil Hyatt. Dar, înainte de a putea stopa un potențial dezastru, trebuie să ajungă la uraniul activ. Abandonat la câteva ore după explozia reactorului nuclear sovietic în 1986, orașul care găzduia cândva lucrătorii centralei nucleare și familiile lor există de atunci ca un oraș fantomă. Dar acum bulevardul său central a fost curățat de copaci și arbuști și chiar reconectat la rețeaua electrică.

Persons: Neil Hyatt, Maxim Saveliev Organizations: Science Magazine, Universității din, Science Locations: Universității din Sheffield, Kiev, Ucraina, Cernobîl, Fukushima, Cernobâl, Pripiat, Uniunea Sovietică

☆ Japonia anunță că nu mai poate amâna deversarea apei contaminate de la Fukushima în Oceanul Pacific
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-11 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaJaponia anunță că nu mai poate amâna deversarea apei contaminate de la Fukushima în Oceanul PacificPrim-ministrul japonez Yoshihide Suga a declarat că guvernul a amânat prea mult timp subiectul apei contaminate de la centrala nucleară Fukushima Daiichi. Suga a anunțat că este timpul să înceapă deversarea apei în ocean. Declarația premierului Suga vine în contextul în care centrala nucleară nu va mai avea în curând spațiu de depozitare a apei radioactive. Mai mult, prim-ministrul Japoniei consideră că planul controversat al deversării apei în Oceanul Pacific „nu poate fi evitat”. Dacă guvernul va aplica această decizie, planul va fi diluarea tritiului radioactiv până la 2,5% din concentrația maximă permisă de standardele naționale înainte ca apa să fie aruncată în ocean.

Persons: Suga, Hiroshi Kajiyama Organizations: Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, Japoniei Locations: Japonia, Pacific, Fukushima

☆ Wildlife flourishing in uninhabited areas around Fukushima
▼ + stars: | 2020-01-07 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

(CNN) Nearly a decade after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, researchers have discovered that wildlife is thriving in the areas evacuated by humans, despite radiological contamination. More than 20,000 people died or went missing in the quake and tsunami, while hundreds of thousands more lost their homes. Three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant melted down, releasing radioactive materials into the air and more than 100,000 people were evacuated from the area. Scientists have now discovered that wildlife is abundant in areas that humans no longer live. Using remote cameras, researchers from the University of Georgia recovered more than 267,000 photos of more than 20 species -- including racoon dogs, wild boars, macaques, pheasants, foxes and Japanese hares in the areas surrounding the power plant.

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