nuclear power

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    Nuclear Power in Western Europe

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    April 21, 2021 16:13
    Rian Patel Moving away from America’s horrific use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war, President Eisenhower of the US delivered his ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech in 1953, to the UN. Three years later, the world’s first full-scale, civil nuclear power plant opened in the...

  • Japan Comes Back Online: First Nuclear Power Plant Restart Since Fukushima

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    September 19, 2015 17:24
    Japan’s first restart of its nuclear power plants since the Fukushima disaster in 2011 has been met with several voices of disapproval and political unrest. Despite local opposition, the Sendai plant has been restarted as part of Japan’s plan to begin using nuclear power again. This restart could be...