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Ukraine says surveillance link restored to Zaporizhzhia nuclear station
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a damaged building at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant compound, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released March 17, 2022. Press service of National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom/Handout via REUTERS
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Some European lawmakers threaten to sue EU if it labels gas investments as ‘green’
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the nuclear power plant, whose last unit will be shut down at the turn of the year, in Gundremmingen, Germany, December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Lukas Barth
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Japan’s June flames out with record heat, but power crunch averted
People walk over a pedestrian crossing under an intense sun Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in Tokyo. Japan's government issued a warning for possible power crunch in the Tokyo area on Monday, asking offices and residents to save energy as the capital region is hit by sweltering heat, with weather officials announcing an earliest end to the rainy season in decades. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Japan’s PM calls for ramp-up of nuclear power use as heat wave gets even hotter
A person wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus cools off at a cooling mist spot Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Tokyo. Japan's government issued a warning for possible power crunch in the Tokyo area on Monday, asking offices and residents to save energy as the capital region is hit by sweltering heat, with weather officials announcing an earliest end to the rainy season in decades. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Japan scrambles to avert looming power crunch as heat mounts after rains end
A woman uses a portable electric fan while strolling down the street with her friends in Tokyo, Monday, June 27, 2022. The Japanese government warned of possible power shortages Monday in the Tokyo region, asking people to conserve energy as the country endures an unusually intense heat wave. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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Mistakes were made: Why Germany may freeze in the dark this winter
Eric Reguly
international business
IAEA voices concern for staff at Ukrainian nuclear plant, demands access
Local residents talk to each other in a shadow resting on a city beach in Berdyansk, the Zaporizhzhia region under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The Zaporizhzhia region has been under control of the Russian forces since the early days of the Russian military action in Ukraine. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo)
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Germany sticks to 2030 coal exit target amid energy worries
(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 17, 2022 a bus drives on a road as steam rises from the cooling towers of the lignite-fired power plant of German energy giant RWE in Niederaussem, western Germany. - Germany said on June 20, 2022 it still aimed to close its coal power plants by 2030, despite a recent decision to revert to the fuel in the midst of an energy crisis provoked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "The 2030 coal exit date is not in doubt at all. It is more important than ever that it is realised in 2030," economy ministry spokesman Stephan Gabriel Haufe said at a regular press conference. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)
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South Bruce, Ignace in Ontario both suitable for disposing of spent nuclear fuel, reports conclude
At Ontario Hydro's Pickering Nuclear station, spent fuel bundles from the nuclear reactors and rods of cobalt are stored in pools where the water is 20 feet deep, January 23, 1975. A fuel bundle, weighing about 50 pounds, sheds a bluish glow in the early stages of storage in the pool, January 23, 1975. Photo by Barrie Davis / The Globe and Mail. Neg. #75023-02
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SNC engineers ordered back to office with one business day’s notice, union says
The SNC-Lavalin headquarters is seen in Montreal on February 12, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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UN: Iran removes cameras from nuclear sites
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Canada’s nuclear waste liabilities total billions of dollars. Is a landfill site near the Ottawa River the best way to extinguish them?
Chalk River Labratories aerial, Canadian Nuclear Labratories, 2021
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The world’s push for small nuclear reactors will exacerbate radioactive waste issues, researchers say
Hundreds of sacks of radioactive soil and waste in Namie, a town near the nuclear meltdown site in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, March 4, 2021. Ten years after a devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, those who have returned are readjusting to places that feel familiar and hostile at once. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
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Japan approves plans to release treated radioactive waste water from wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant
FILE - Tanks storing treated radioactive water after it was used to cool the melted fuel are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, on March 3, 2022. Japan’s nuclear regulator on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, approved plans by the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to release its treated radioactive wastewater into the sea next year, saying the outlined methods are safe and risks to the environment minimal. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
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Germany to reject EU green investment label for nuclear power
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Iran set up underground centrifuge-parts workshop at Natanz: IAEA
FILE PHOTO: Iranian flag flies in front of the UN office building, housing IAEA headquarters, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Vienna, Austria, May 24, 2021. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner
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Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’
Russian trenches and firing positions sit in the highly contaminated soil adjacent to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine, Saturday, April 16, 2022. Thousands of tanks and troops rumbled into the forested exclusion zone around the plant in the earliest hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, churning up highly contaminated soil from the site of the 1986 accident that was the world's worst nuclear disaster. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Bank of America’s U.S. top ideas have outperformed index by 19% over the last 12 months
A trader works on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on April 11.
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Documents raise questions about costs to retire Ontario’s natural gas power plants
Toronto, May 28, 2008 - The Portlands Energy Centre is a new state-of-the-art natural gas fired, combined cycle generation facility in the Portlands area of the City of Toronto. Photo: Sami Siva / The Globe and Mail Story details: It's a giant white box on the waterfront, humming with heavy-duty engineering. Construction trailers litter the raw building site, but a shimmering heat pattern above the plant's shortest exhaust stack attests to the megawatts of electricity it is already pumping into the downtown grid.
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The Globe’s stars and dogs for the week
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Russian forces fire at Kharkiv’s nuclear research facility, Ukrainian parliament says
A view of the square outside the damaged local city hall of Kharkiv on March 1, 2022, destroyed as a result of Russian troop shelling. - The central square of Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv, was shelled by advancing Russian forces who hit the building of the local administration, regional governor Oleg Sinegubov said. Kharkiv, a largely Russian-speaking city near the Russian border, has a population of around 1.4 million. (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)
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Zelensky invokes memories of Fukushima in address to Japan’s Parliament
Members of Japan's lower house of parliament applaud as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a virtual address to Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (Behrouz Mehri/Pool Photo via AP)
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Volunteers finally arrive at Chernobyl nuclear plant to relieve 64 workers on duty there for past three weeks
FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Iran defies Western powers with work on near weapons-grade uranium
FILE - This file photo released Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. An Iranian nuclear negotiator says Tuesday, April 13, 2021, Tehran will begin enriching uranium to 60% purity after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, higher than the program ever has before. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)
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Powerful quake off north Japan kills at least four, more than 90 injured
Furniture and electrical appliance are scattered at an apartment in Fukushima, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2022, following an earthquake. A powerful earthquake shook off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami advisory.(Kyodo News via AP)
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Going nuclear: How Finland is building energy independence from Russia
(FILES) This file photo taken on October 19, 2016 shows the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Eurajoki, Finland. - Finland's long-delayed Olkiluoto-3 nuclear reactor went online for the first time on Saturday, March 12, 2022, the plant's operator said. The European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) reactor, built by the French-led Areva-Siemens consortium on Finland's southwest coast, was started up in December 2021 for testing, 12 years behind schedule. (Photo by Martti Kainulainen / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT (Photo by MARTTI KAINULAINEN/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukraine says power has been restored to Chernobyl power station
FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine November 22, 2018. Picture taken November 22, 2018. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo
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Shell casing found in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station
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At Ukraine’s Russian-controlled nuclear plant, the ‘quiet situation is very unstable’
FILE PHOTO: Surveillance camera footage shows a flare landing at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant during shelling in Enerhodar, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine March 4, 2022, in this screengrab from a video obtained from social media. Zaporizhzhya NPP via YouTube/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. REFILE - ADDITIONAL CAPTION INFORMATION/File Photo
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Russia seizes control of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after intense fighting
This image provided to The Globe shows damage to a training building located near the reactor complex at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, on Friday March 4, 2022.
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Russia-Ukraine updates: Here’s what happened on Mar. 4
A woman and a little girl react as she cannot immediately board a train departing to Poland following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the main train station in Lviv, Ukraine, March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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Does the future of clean energy include nuclear power?
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Gas, fracking, nuclear: Three energy sectors on Europe’s rethink list as war threatens Ukraine
LUBMIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 02: The receiving station of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline stands on February 02, 2022 near Lubmin, Germany. Nord Stream 2, which is owned by Russian energy company Gazprom, is to transport Russian natural gas from Russia to Germany along over 1,200km of twin pipeline stretching across the bottom of the Baltic Sea. While Nord Stream 2 was completed in September of 2021, operation has been held up by German regulators. Most recently both German and EU officials have raised the possibility of halting Nord Stream 2 due to the build-up of Russian military forces on the border to Ukraine. The build-up has stoked international fears of an imminent military invasion. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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As nuclear power rises again, its second act is in doubt
A general view of the Cameco McArthur River mine operation in northern Saskatchewan June 28, 2007. You could say Cameco Corp. is sitting on a veritable gold mine these days, but such a compliment would actually undersell the value of the high-grade uranium buried in its flagship McArthur River mine in northern Saskatchewan. Picture taken June 28, 2007. REUTERS/Dave Stobbe (CANADA)
european business
EU proposes rules to label some gas and nuclear investments as green
A general view of the two cooling towers of the Electricite de France (EDF) nuclear power plant in Chooz France, January 24, 2022. Picture taken January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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Angela Merkel’s dubious energy legacy haunts and divides Germany as tensions over Ukraine rise
Eric Reguly