Westinghouse wins deal to build 4 nuclear power plants in China.
Byline: EMMA GRAHAMHARRISON BEIJING, Dec 16 (Reuters) -- China and the United States agreed a deal on Saturday allowing Westinghouse Electric Co. to build four civilian nuclear power plants in China, nudging out French rival Areva to win a contract estimated at $ 8 billion. ...

Brave nuclear world? The planet is warming, and proponents of nuclear power say they've got the answer. Are nuclear plants the climate cavalry? First of two parts.
A few miles down an idyllic New England country road dotted with handsome homesteads and gentleman farms in central Connecticut sits the Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant--or what's left of it. After shutting down in 1996, the 590-megawatt reactor is nearing the end of its decommissioning, a process spokesperson...

Tsunamis and nuclear power plants.
More than 300,000 people are dead. Bodies wash ashore in a dozen countries. A train, loaded with a thousand passengers and their luggage, is swept away, engine, tracks, and all. Cars, trucks, buses, and boats are pushed more than a mile inland by the rushing water. Some of the...

A numerical modeling of uncertain parameters associated to a transport model of radionuclides in porous media.
ABSTRACT With the importance devoted to the protection of the natural environment, the computer simulation of contaminant transport in groundwater has acquired recognized importance as a tool for the prediction of future. In this context, we present a random fields generator for building a Monte Carlo model...

Nuclear power? Yes, please.
MY grandfather was a coal miner. My father was an electrical engineer. Energy appears to be in my blood. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I was growing up in the north of England, we seemed to be heading for a new age of energy production. Just...

Thailand mulls 4 nuclear plants.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thailand wants to build at least four nuclear power plants, the country's energy minister said Friday, in the latest sign that Southeast Asian countries are embracing atomic energy to offset their dependence on imported oil and gas. Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand said he...

Nuclear power must remain part of region's energy mix.
Byline: James Tocci COLUMN: AS I SEE IT Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from electricity production in New England is an ambitious undertaking. But as states prepare to meet commitments to reduce emissions under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), we should be aware of serious...

Aglow for nuclear power.
Byline: The Register-Guard Nearly three decades after the Three Mile Island disaster, Sen. John McCain is proposing an American nuclear renaissance. As part of a weeklong focus on energy security, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Wednesday that he wants 45 new nuclear plants to...

Voters to decide on power plants; Change in zoning bylaw needed.
Byline: Linda Bock UXBRIDGE - The new high school could be built next to a power plant if town meeting members approve a measure lifting the town's prohibition of them. "The only question is, `Do you want power plants or not?'" said John J. Morawski,...

The nuclear option.
I was quite surprised that Jim Manzi's article on global warming ("Game Plan," June 25) totally overlooked the best alternative for clean power generation. I refer, of course, to nuclear power plants, which have zero C[O.sub.2] emissions. Although it may not be generally realized, approximately 20 percent of our...