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UK navy in Gibraltar finds lost radioactive part
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UK navy in Gibraltar finds lost radioactive part
S.Korea to invest $29 bln on power plants to 2015
Russia holds two-week anti-terrorism exercise at nuclear power plant
Russia continuing work on plans to build a floating nuclear reactor
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UK navy in Gibraltar finds lost radioactive part
GIBRALTAR, Aug 16 (Reuters) - British forces at the colony of
Gibraltar have found a small radioactive part whose reported loss
prompted calls for a security review.
British forces headquarters on the Rock issued a statement on Friday
saying that the part "previously reported as lost, has now been
located within the dockyard."
Following a routine check, British forces said on Wednesday that a
"sealed radioactive test source" used to check monitoring equipment
kept at the dockyard was missing.
They said the part emitted very low levels of radioactivity and posed
no risk to the public.
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S.Korea to invest $29 bln on power plants to 2015
SEOUL, Aug 16 (Reuters) - South Korean firms plan to invest 33.7
trillion won ($28.66 billion) in building power plants by 2015 as
part of the government's long-term electricity supply plan, the
Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said on Friday.
The ministry said in a statement five power generation units of state-
run Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) and seven local companies had
notified it of their plan to expand power generating capacity to a
combined 77 million kilowatts (kw) in 2015 from 50.9 million kw in
2001.
The ministry forecast the maximum electricity demand would grow 3.4
percent on average every year to 67.8 million kw in 2015 from 43.1
million kw in 2001.
The ministry said nuclear power would be the main source of energy
supplying some 26.6 million kw, or 34.6 percent of the 67.8 million
kw demand forecast for 2015, followed by coal at 22.2 million kw or
28.8 percent.
Liquefied natural gas would account for 25.4 percent of the energy
supply with 19.6 million kw, it said.
The ministry said its forecast for power demand was based on an
economic growth rate of 4.9 percent on average every year to 2015 and
took into account an expected change in industrial structure.
The service sector was expected to take up 69.3 percent of the entire
industry in 2015, up from 60.8 percent in 2001, while the share of
mining and manufacturing industry would decline to 28.5 percent from
34 percent.
The Bank of Korea has forecast 2002 economic growth of 6.5 percent,
up from three percent in 2001.
The 33.7 trillion won in investment breaks down to 18.4 trillion won
in the construction of nuclear power generators and 15.3 trillion won
in hydro-electric and thermal power plants, it said.
Companies that submitted their plans to the ministry included Unison
Industrial, a power generation equipment maker, Daewoo Engineering &
Construction Co and Daelim Industrial Corp, the construction and
petrochemical arm of the Daelim Group.
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Russia holds two-week anti-terrorism exercise at nuclear power plant
MOSCOW Aug 15 (AP) - Russian soldiers, rescue workers and security
officials completed a two-week anti-terrorism training exercise at a
nuclear power plant, officials said Thursday.
Federal Security Service officers, Interior Ministry troops and civil
defense troops joined power plant personnel for the exercise, which
ended Wednesday, the national nuclear power agency Rosenergoatom
said.
The purpose of the exercise was to hone skills for preventing acts of
nuclear terrorism and to perfect coordination between Rosenergoatom
and other federal agencies in the event of an emergency,
Rosenergoatom said.
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Russia continuing work on plans to build a floating nuclear reactor
MOSCOW Aug 13 (AP) -- Russia has completed development work on
creating a floating nuclear power plant, and is now studying how to
construct such a facility, the state nuclear energy company said
Tuesday.
Rosenergoatom said that it has received all necessary permits to move
forward with the unprecedented project.
But a spokesman for the state agency said it was too early to say
where the small-capacity power plant would be located. The
Atomic Energy Ministry said earlier this year that it was considering
the White Sea.
Earlier proposals also called for a floating nuclear power plant in
the Chukotka region, which faces Alaska across the Bering Strait,
and off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East.
Rosenergoatom said Russian experts were to travel to China on
Wednesday to consult with their Chinese counterparts about
construction of the plant. The company said that discussions would
focus on cooperation with Chinese financial, energy and
shipyard companies.
Russia has long been interested in using such plants to supply
electricity to remote northern and eastern regions where severe
weather makes construction on land difficult and expensive. But
despite frequent announcements that the project had the green
light, construction has not yet begun.
Environmentalists have criticized the plans as too risky, and
questioned Russia's ability to safeguard such a facility from
terrorists. Critics have also expressed concern about Russia's
ability to safely build and manage a floating nuclear power plant.
Russia's nuclear reactors were designed in the Soviet era and many
are in need of repair, prompting frequent minor malfunctions. The
Soviet Union was the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, in
1986, at Chernobyl, Ukraine.
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