PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2024
Forty-five years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. commercial nuclear power industry. The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 26, 2022
Forty-three years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. commercial nuclear power industry. The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 26, 2022
While the IAEA has limited authority over nuclear safety even in peacetime, there are practical steps it could take to help the plant cope with any damage that would disrupt the systems that keep its highly radioactive reactor cores and spent nuclear fuel cool. However, the V-320 does not have such a system.).
Circle of Blue
JUNE 8, 2022
Featured coverage from this week’s episode of What’s Up With Water looks at: In France, May was unusually warm, and that could limit operations at some of its nuclear power facilities. Most inland facilities cool their power-generating equipment with river water.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 1, 2023
Local authorities in Cameroon do not strictly enforce environmental regulations for mining companies, and nationwide legislation on the matter has not yet been completed. Today the waters cool the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. According to Mongabay, “today, about 20 remain compared to over 100 ten years ago.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 31, 2022
I’d be remiss not to mention that, ever since the August 2020 power outages, California policymakers and regulators have been pulling out all the stops to maintain grid reliability. Businesses, too, can play their part by shifting power use to earlier in the day when supplies are more available.
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).
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