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- Nuclear to be floated. // Professional Engineering;09/17/97, Vol. 10 Issue 17, p4
Focuses on Russian government's approval of plans to build floating nuclear power plants. Two pressurized water reactors on a barge; Use as a desalination plant.
- Performance-based pricing for nuclear power plants. Che, Yeon-Koo; Rothwell, Geoffrey // Energy Journal;1995, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p57
Examines the incentive regulations of United States public utility commissions to promote the operating efficiency of nuclear power plants. Efficient operation model; Target capacity factor approach; Performance-based pricing approach.
- Nuclear plants allocated fuel credits. // Modern Power Systems;May94, Vol. 14 Issue 5, p3
Reports that Russian nuclear plants are to be allocated special credits to purchase fuel and will be given deferrals and credit repayments from 1993, according to a ministerial decision. Stations forced to stop purchasing fuel due to lack of resources; Warning on the collapse of the system by...
- Zorita report delayed. // Modern Power Systems;Sep94, Vol. 14 Issue 9, p9
Reports on the Spanish Council for nuclear safety's move to delay the report on problems at the Zorita nuclear plant until October 1994 because of the need to obtain more information. Environmental organizations' call for a report on the causes of apparent corrosion leading to cracks in the...
- Russian reactor deal on course. // Modern Power Systems;Jul95, Vol. 15 Issue 7, p7
Reports on Russia's intentions to build a nuclear power plant in Iran in spite of objections from the United States.
- Nuclear power privatization slated for this year. // Modern Power Systems;Feb98, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p5
Reports on the intentions of the Argentine government to continue its plans to privatize its nuclear power industry.
- Russia starts crash nuclear power programme. MacKenzie, Debora // New Scientist;1/23/93, Vol. 137 Issue 1857, p8
Reveals that Russia will build at least 30 new nuclear power plants between now and the year 2010. Protests by environmental adviser, Alexei Yablokov; Plans announced by the Ministry for Atomic Energy; Why nuclear power was chosen.
- Japan's breeder is for burning. Hadfield, Peter // New Scientist;4/23/94, Vol. 142 Issue 1922, p9
Reports on Japan's plans for its fast reactors. Use of nuclear power plant Monju to burn up plutonium; Long-term energy policy; Science and Technology nuclear fuel division director Yasutaka Moriguchi's note of caution over the project; Critics' views; Description of a fast breeder reactor;...
- Russia rejects pleas to shut risky reactors. MacKenzie, Debora // New Scientist;5/27/95, Vol. 146 Issue 1979, p10
Reports on the Russian government's refusal to heed calls from the West for it to shut down its oldest nuclear power plants. Ukraine's decision to close its remaining reactors at Chernobyl and replace them with gas-fired plants; Design of the old Russian plants; Safety considerations.
