Japan:
¶ TEPCO is reducing its projected losses for this year from ¥160 billion to ¥45 billion ($564 million. [The Voice of Russia]
¶ A study by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare found poor monitoring of the radiation doses at Fukushima Daiichi. [Asahi Shimbun]
World:
¶ As a result of its deal with Hitachi, Britain will have advanced boiling water reactors. [World Nuclear News]
¶ South Africa has approved an initial $5,4 billion worth of clean energy projects that will allow it to develop 1,400 MW of renewable generation capacity of electricity, reducing dependence on coal-fired generation. [NewsDay]
¶ Based on the success it has had so far, the government of Scotland is seeking to move toward its renewable goals faster, and hopes to generate 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2015. [BBC News]
¶ Abu Dhabi is looking to making biofuels from algae. [Gulf Today]
¶ UK Energy minister John Hayes is suggesting a halt be made to the growth of wind farms. He says policy on wind turbines should not governed by “a bourgeois Left article of faith.” [The Week UK]
… Others in the governing coalition point out that John Hayes does not represent the government as a whole and cannot make policy by himself. [The Guardian]
US:
¶ Operations affected by Hurricane Sandy included an alert at Oyster Creek; shutdowns of one reactor at Indian Point, Salem, and Nine Mile Point; and reduced power at Millstone, Vermont Yankee, and Limerick. [Power Engineering Magazine]
… The alert at Oyster Creek is still in effect today (story filed at 3:40 am EST). [Newsroom America]
… A more serious problem at Oyster Creek was narrowly averted. [Center for Research on Globalization]
¶ Progress Energy Florida said it could take months more to decide whether to repair Crystal River or shut it down permanently. [Sunshine State News]
¶ Energy is being used more efficiently in the US, and more of it is coming from renewable resources. [environmentalresearchweb]
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