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Aliso Canyon likely to stay open for years under closure plan; residents outraged

LA Times

An aerial view of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in Porter Ranch. The commission-approved proposal calls for moving ahead with potentially closing Aliso Canyon once Southern California’s demand for natural gas declines to a point at which peak demand can be served without the site. “Reducing reliance on the facility has gone slower than I would like, but …

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1 week, 3 days ago

INS Nirdeshak to be commissioned by Navy at Vishakapatnam dockyard soon

India Today

The Navy will commission the second ship of the Survey Vessel project, INS Nirdeshak, on Wednesday at the Naval Dockyard in Vishakapatnam. The Navy unveiled the crest of INS Nirdeshak and described it as "the Pathfinder of the Seas, the second ship of the Survey Vessel project, a beacon of excellence, precision, and India’s maritime pride". "This modern vessel carries …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Supreme Court to hear plea to reduce water level at Mullaperiyar dam in January 2025

The Hindu

The Supreme Court on Friday fixed in January a detailed hearing of a petition seeking to bring down the permissible water level of the Mullaperiyar Dam, situated in the Cardamom Hills of the Western Ghats, from 142 ft to 120 ft to obviate the possibility of the dam breaching. “In view of the recent tragedy that occurred in Wayanad, the …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Archaeologists perplexed by mysterious Stone Age skulls found in Italian village

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Archaeologists have found a cache of over a dozen broken human …

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1 month ago

Miliband’s wind turbine blitz will leave North Sea littered with ‘abandoned rigs’

The Telegraph

Ed Miliband’s wind turbine blitz threatens to leave the North Sea strewn with rusting oil rigs because of a lack of equipment needed to dismantle the retired platforms. The Energy Secretary’s rush to build new offshore wind turbines risks depriving the oil and gas sector of the heavy-lift ships and cranes needed to remove the rigs, industry trade body Offshore …

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Up to US to decide what to do with decommissioned HAWK missiles, Taiwan says

Hindustan Times

TAIPEI, - It is up to the United States to decide what to do with Taiwan's decommissioned HAWK anti-aircraft missiles, the island's Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Wednesday, when asked if they would be transferred to Ukraine. Up to US to decide what to do with decommissioned HAWK missiles, Taiwan says The United States and its allies have provided …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Robot successfully retrieves first radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima reactor

The Independent

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3 months ago

Why the rapid death of North Sea risks leaving taxpayers on the hook for billions

The Telegraph

Labour’s tax raid on the UK’s North Sea oil and gas producers risks leaving taxpayers on the hook for billions of pounds more in decommissioning charges than first thought, analysts have warned. Rachel Reeves’s decision to raise overall taxes to an astonishing 78pc, the highest of any sector, and strip the industry of tax allowances will drive down profits so …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Fukushima begins robotic removal of radioactive debris sample 13 years after nuclear disaster

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tribes celebrate as dam removals set Klamath river 'free' for first time in a century

Raw Story

Crews breached the final of four dams on a key stretch of the Klamath River on Wednesday, letting salmon run freely there for the first time in over a century and garnering tears from Indigenous activists who had campaigned for the dam removals for decades. The Klamath, which runs from south-central Oregon into northwestern California, has long been bordered by …

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4 months ago

A robot’s attempt to get a sample of the melted fuel at Japan’s damaged nuclear reactor is suspended

Associated Press

TOKYO — An attempt to use an extendable robot to remove a fragment of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was suspended Thursday due to a technical issue. The collection of a tiny sample of the debris inside the Unit 2 reactor’s primary containment vessel would start the fuel debris removal phase, …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Plea in SC seeks lowering of water level in Mullaperiyar dam in view of Wayanad disaster

The Hindu

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court to bring down the permissible water level of the British-era Mullaperiyar dam, situated in the Cardamom Hills of the Western Ghats in Kerala, from 142 feet to 120 feet to obviate the possibility of the dam breaching. “In view of the recent tragedy that occurred in Wayanad, the water level of …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Caltech observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, a source of cultural tension, is dismantled

LA Times

Caltech and its contractors completed the decommissioning of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in July. After decades of mounting tension between scientists and Native Hawaiians, Caltech has completed its removal of a telescope from the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is revered by the island’s Indigenous population. The decommissioning of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in July follows the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Decommissioning of coal-based plants and its ramifications

Hindustan Times

According to the International Energy Agency, the Indian power sector is the highest emitter of carbon dioxide. Coal The power sector being the largest emitter of CO2 has a key role to play if India wants to achieve its target of going net-zero by 2070. This will mean that we would need to move away from coal-based generation and adopt …

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5 months ago

What happens to wind farms in Victoria when turbines reach the end of their lives?

ABC

What happens to wind turbines when they reach their use-by date? The Clean Energy Council's director of energy generation and storage, Nicholas Aberle, told ABC Radio Ballarat no commercial wind farms had reached their end of life or been decommissioned so far in Victoria. He said the Clean Energy Council outlined options for a wind farm with aging turbines. Scrap …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Group sues federal government, claims it ignores harms of idle offshore oil and gas infrastructure

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — An environmental group is suing the federal government to force the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess the long-term environmental effects of delays in shutting down inactive oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. “What we have now in the Gulf of Mexico is a mess of leaky wells, rusty platforms, and corroding pipelines created …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Discharge of nuclear-contaminated water sets bad precedent

China Daily

Japanese hold a rally to protest against the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea. ZHU CHENXI/CHINA NEWS SERVICE Japan will release 7,800 metric tons of "treated" nuclear-contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean, starting from Friday, in the seventh discharge round. Despite the Tokyo Electric Power Company calling the nuclear-contaminated water stored in the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant prepares to restart another plant

The Independent

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Grave step backwards’: Meta shuts monitoring tool in election year

The Hindu

A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation. “It represents a grave step backwards for social media platform transparency.” Meta is set to replace CrowdTangle with a new Content Library, a …

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9 months ago

Images taken deep inside melted Fukushima reactor show damage, but leave many questions unanswered

Associated Press

TOKYO — Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials but leave many questions unanswered, underscoring the daunting task of decommissioning the plant. 1 reactor at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town on March 14, 2024. This photo shows a …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

13 years after meltdown, Fukushima’s reactor room remains a ‘mystery’

The Hindu

As Japan prepares to mark the 13th anniversary of its worst-ever nuclear disaster, the man in charge of cleaning it up says his team is fighting to bring a sample out of the heart of the site’s radioactive debris. ‘Unprecedented task; Getting that sample would be like penetrating “the main keep of the castle” in the battle of decommissioning, Mr. …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

13 years after meltdown, the head of Japan’s nuclear cleanup is probing mysteries inside reactors

Associated Press

TOKYO — As Japan prepares to mark the 13th anniversary of its worst-ever nuclear disaster, the man in charge of cleaning it up says his team is fighting to bring a sample out of the heart of the site’s radioactive debris. The key to unlocking that mystery — and figuring out how to clean it up — is a sample …

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant further delays removal of melted fuel debris

Associated Press

TOKYO — The operator of the tsunami-hit nuclear plant in Fukushima announced Thursday a delay of several more months before launching a test to remove melted fuel debris from inside one of the reactors, citing problems clearing the way for a robotic arm. The disasters destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s power supply and cooling systems, causing three reactors to …

Japan Fuel Fukushima Reactors Inside Debris Tepco

11 months, 3 weeks ago

TEPCO’s operational ban is lifted, putting it one step closer to restarting reactors in Niigata

Associated Press

TOKYO — Japanese nuclear safety regulators lifted an operational ban Wednesday imposed on a nuclear plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, the operator behind the Fukushima plant that ended in disaster, allowing the company to resume preparations for restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant after more than 10 years. The plant on Japan’s northern coast of Niigata is TEPCO’s only …

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Aliso Canyon likely to stay open for years under closure plan; residents outraged

INS Nirdeshak to be commissioned by Navy at Vishakapatnam dockyard soon

Supreme Court to hear plea to reduce water level at Mullaperiyar dam in January 2025

Archaeologists perplexed by mysterious Stone Age skulls found in Italian village

Miliband’s wind turbine blitz will leave North Sea littered with ‘abandoned rigs’

Up to US to decide what to do with decommissioned HAWK missiles, Taiwan says

Robot successfully retrieves first radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima reactor

Why the rapid death of North Sea risks leaving taxpayers on the hook for billions

Fukushima begins robotic removal of radioactive debris sample 13 years after nuclear disaster

Tribes celebrate as dam removals set Klamath river 'free' for first time in a century

A robot’s attempt to get a sample of the melted fuel at Japan’s damaged nuclear reactor is suspended

Plea in SC seeks lowering of water level in Mullaperiyar dam in view of Wayanad disaster

Caltech observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, a source of cultural tension, is dismantled

Decommissioning of coal-based plants and its ramifications

What happens to wind farms in Victoria when turbines reach the end of their lives?

Group sues federal government, claims it ignores harms of idle offshore oil and gas infrastructure

Discharge of nuclear-contaminated water sets bad precedent

Operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant prepares to restart another plant

‘Grave step backwards’: Meta shuts monitoring tool in election year

Images taken deep inside melted Fukushima reactor show damage, but leave many questions unanswered

13 years after meltdown, Fukushima’s reactor room remains a ‘mystery’

13 years after meltdown, the head of Japan’s nuclear cleanup is probing mysteries inside reactors

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant further delays removal of melted fuel debris

TEPCO’s operational ban is lifted, putting it one step closer to restarting reactors in Niigata