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51 nuclear reactors in Japan ran at 82% capacity in FY 2000
Ukraine Met Demands for $758 Mln in Chernobyl Aid, Paper Says
Environmentalists question Jabiluka's future
Russian navy says no nukes on wrecked Kursk sub
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51 nuclear reactors in Japan ran at 82% capacity in FY 2000
TOKYO, April 5 (Kyodo) - Fifty-one nuclear reactors in Japan ran at
81.7% capacity in fiscal 2000, the second highest ratio in the annual
survey, the Nuclear and Industry Safety Agency said Thursday.
The average period between safety checks at the 51 was 12.7 months,
the longest on record, it said. The legal maximum is 13 months.
The capacity ratio, up 1.6 percentage points from the previous year,
was the second highest following 84.2% in fiscal 1998. By reactor
type, boiling-water reactors ran at 79.9%, while pressurized-water
ones were at 84.1%.
The agency, which operates under the Economy, Trade and Industry
Ministry, received 26 accident reports in fiscal 2000, which ended
last month, but all were classified as less serious than a ''level
one'' on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
Japan has 52 nuclear reactors. The remaining one is not used
commercially.
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Ukraine Met Demands for $758 Mln in Chernobyl Aid, Paper Says
Kiev, April 5 (Bloomberg) -- Ukraine fulfilled all of the conditions
demanded by international lenders for $758 million in aid to build a
new containment building around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's
damaged reactor, Uriadovyi Kurier reported, citing Deputy Prime
Minister Oleh Dubina.
Ukraine expects that the Group of Seven most industrialized nations
will make a final decision on financing the project at the site of
the world's worst nuclear accident, at their next meeting in Rome,
Dubina said, according to the newspaper.
Earlier this week, Dubina met Jachim Jahnke, vice president of the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, for talks on the
project, the daily reported, citing Ukraine's state news agency
UkrInform.
Ukraine closed the plant in December. The fourth reactor, which
exploded in 1986, is still shrouded in a metal and concrete
containment building, which was hastily built in the first six months
after the explosion and has developed cracks that could eventually
leak radiation.
Ukraine agreed to close Chernobyl in exchange for $2.3 billion in
international aid, of which $1.4 billion would finance construction
of new nuclear reactors in Rivne and Khmelnytskyi to replace
electricity output lost after Chernobyl's shutdown. The EBRD has
promised about $200 million and European Union as much as $600
million.
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Environmentalists question Jabiluka's future
5 April, 2001, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The Northern
Territory Environment Centre claims the future of the Jabiluka
uranium mine surrounded by Kakadu National Park is in further doubt.
The centre says the Canadian nuclear corporation CAMECO has announced
its 6 per cent stake in the project's operators Energy Resources of
Australia (ERA) is for sale.
The centre's Mark Wakeham says the decision is yet another hurdle for
ERA.
"It's a significant hurdle because Rio Tinto doesn't want to develop
the Jabiluka Mine, they announced that a fortnight ago, they need to
find another stakeholder to develop the mine and one of the most
likely candidates is CAMECO, the other one is Cogema," he said.
"CAMECO have announced they're not interested so it's a considerable
hurdle; it means that there's potentially only one company on the
planet that might be interested in developing Jabiluka."
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Russian navy says no nukes on wrecked Kursk sub
MOSCOW, April 5 (Reuters) - The Russian navy dismissed on Thursday a
Norwegian media report that the Kursk submarine was carrying nuclear
weapons when it plunged to the sea floor last August, killing all 118
sailors on board.
"I categorically deny this information. From the first day of the
catastrophe we said there were no nuclear weapons on board the atomic
submarine Kursk," Igor Dygalo, aide to the commander of the Russian
navy, told Reuters.
He said the comments about Kursk's payload, made by Russian
politician Grigory Tomchin and aired on Norwegian television this
week, were "linked to his personal analysis and personal fantasy."
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