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Troubled US nuclear plant to stay shut down
New Zealand Herald
Photo / AP The troubled San Onofre nuclear plant on the California coast will remain shut down until investigators determine the cause of excessive wear on hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water and ensure there is no risk to public safety,
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Obama Warns of Threats at Nuclear Summit
Wall Street Journal
SEOUL—Nuclear powers agreed Tuesday on new actions to secure dangerous materials, a series of technical steps that represented progress but that fell short of some of the most ambitious goals at a meeting of more than 50 countries. US President Barack
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Wall Street Journal
Nuclear terror threat remains, Obama tells world leaders
Sydney Morning Herald
Barack Obama speaks at the first plenary session of the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. Photo: AFP/Saul Loeb The US President, Barack Obama, has warned global leaders that there are “still too many bad actors” in the world trying to get their
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Sydney Morning Herald
Emissions Rules Limit Coal Plants
Wall Street Journal
The rules will simply reinforce the existing trend in power generation: Cheap natural gas is the favored fuel for new electricity generation, often edging out coal and nuclear power. The US Energy Information Administration projected natural-gas power
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Obama warns nuclear terrorism could hit the world
International News Network
Seoul: US President Barack Obama has reiterated his warning that nuclear terrorism remains a global threat. He was speaking at the nuclear security summit in South Korea. US President said the US had fulfilled its commitment to remove or destroy
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International News Network
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits northeast Japan, no damage
Reuters
Japanese broadcaster NHK and the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no danger of a tsunami. Tokyo Electric Power Co said there were no abnormalities at its nuclear plant in Fukushima, which was severely damaged just over a year ago by a
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(Nuclear summit) Leaders make fresh commitments toward safer world without
Yonhap News
“Defeating this threat requires strong national measures and international cooperation, given its potential global political, economic, social and psychological consequences.” The statement called for minimizing the use of weapons-usable,
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Yonhap News
Obama says ‘bad actors’ trying to get nuclear material
Jerusalem Post
By BLOOMBERG, REUTERS “These dangerous materials are still vulnerable in too many places,” US president says at Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul; Obama defends comments on arms control, Russia. By REUTERS/Larry Downing US President Barack Obama said
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Global Insights: The Nuclear Security Summit’s Priorities and Pitfalls
World Politics Review
The summit’s specific goals are to promote a common understanding of the threat of nuclear terrorism, forge agreement on effective measures to secure dangerous nuclear material, protect nuclear facilities such as nuclear power plants from direct attack
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