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“Jumpers” (ジャンパー) wanted

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged Fukushima, Job posting, Nuclear, Radiation, TEPCO on April 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Wanted: Short term, possibly long term position that pays thousands of dollars for up to an hour of work requiring little training working in perilously radioactive environments. A Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) official said this week that the company has tasks fit for “jumpers” (ジャンパー) — workers so called because they “jump” into highly [...]

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CPS halts negotiations with NRG

Posted in Global Warming, tagged CPS Energy, Fukushima, nrg energy, Nuclear Power, Power Purchase Agreement, San Antonio, South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, TEPCO on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

San Antonio’s electric utility, CPS, has halted their negotiations on a power purchase agreement between CPS and STP’s expansion units 3 and 4. CPS’s CEO, Doyle Beneby, announced that CPS and NRG have mutually agreed to terminate their PPA negotiations at this point. It would appear that the issues facing NRG’s Japanese partners (including Tepco, the beleaguered [...]

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Japan’s current nuclear fiasco and implications for STP

Posted in Nuclear, tagged Fukushima Daiichi, Nuclear, public citizen texas, STP, TEPCO on March 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The word “meltdown” goes to the heart of the big nuclear question – is nuclear power safe? Richard Black, Environment correspondent with the BBC News tries to answer this question and address questions about what is happening at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Click here to read the BBC article. One issue he does bring [...]

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