Japan switches on nuclear reactor after safety shutdown

Japan switches on nuclear reactor after safety shutdown Tokyo (AFP) Dec 9, 2016 - Japan has restarted one of its few operating nuclear reactors after a two-month safety checkup, despite still-heated debate over atomic power following the Fukushima disaster. The unit was shut down in October for inspections and maintenance under stricter rules brought in after a quake-sparked tsunami swamped the Fukushima plant in 2011, sending some reactors into meltdown and causing the w ... more

Keeping electric car design on the right road Oslo, Norway (SPX) Dec 12, 2016 - Does it really help to drive an electric car if the electricity you use to charge the batteries come from a coal mine in Germany, or if the batteries were manufactured in China using coal? Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Industrial Ecology Programme have looked at all of the environmental costs of electric vehicles to determine the cradle-to-grave enviro ... more

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