Japan-Turkey cooperation built NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Illustration Of A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. (Photo Of/REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa)

Ankara (Reuters)-Japan and Turkey reached agreement on nuclear cooperation on Friday, confirmed that the Alliance of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan and France Areva SA will receive orders to build four nuclear reactors in Turkey.

The agreement was made at a bilateral summit meeting between Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Abkhaz Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.

Turkey is planning to build four nuclear reactors in the Black Sea coast in 2023, as reported Jiji Press.

Japan no longer exporting nuclear reactors since the tsunami disaster which caused the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant number 1 belongs to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. 's in March 2011.

But now, the Government is eager to sell Abe reactors abroad again.

Demand for the construction of nuclear power plants is growing overseas, while the latest construction project is currently not approved in Japan that might still be in the midst of a crisis of NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS in the Northeast, according to Jiji Press report.

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Taiwan's opposition rejected the construction of NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

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We hope the Government will soon decide to halted construction NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Taipei (Reuters)-Taiwan's main opposition party, Tuesday, calling for the construction of nuclear power plants (NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS)--long overdue--was discontinued along with the associated safety factor extends unjukrasa.

Build a nuclear installation in the fourth debate, which was never completed for 14 years, heating up along with the addition of the Taiwan Parliament's plan to review the budget reached 40 billion Taiwan dollars (Rp13,57 trillion) for the project.

"We hope the Government will soon decide to halted construction of the NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS rather than approve the supplementary budget," said Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Su Tseng-chang,.

Related concerns Taiwan's Atomic installations peaked after the earthquake had a magnitude of 9 on the Richter scale which struck Japan accompanied by tsunamis on March 11, 2011, thus damaging the nuclear installation in Fukushima.

Based on information Organizer, as many as 50 thousand people from 100 civilian group is scheduled to hold a protest in Taiwan on March 9, the upcoming to urge the Government to learn from the disaster that happened in Japan.

Taiwan's Government previously stated is unlikely to shut down three NUCLEAR PLANTS them or stop the construction of the fourth, as the island is heavily dependent on energy imports.

The construction of the fourth NUCLEAR POWER PLANT began in 1999 and is scheduled to be completed in 2004. But the political debate resulted in the controversial project was delayed so long.

Taiwan's three NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS are owned now-meet about 20 percent of electricity needs of the island. The Government of Taiwan claimed that the installation of anti-seismic design has been applied to the whole of the installation after the disaster that happened in Japan.

As with Japan, the earthquake-prone Taiwan also belongs to because the island lies between two tectonic plates.

In 1999 alone, 7.6 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale killed at least 2,400 people in a natural disaster, the largest of the island's history.
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Syria rejects power transfer call

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23 January 2012 Last updated at 12:31 GMT Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani says the Arab League wants to see stability and security

Syria has rejected an Arab League call for President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to his deputy.

The league, meeting in Cairo, urged Syria to form a national unity government with the opposition within two months.

A government official called the plan "flagrant interference" in Syria's internal affairs, state TV said.

The UN says more than 5,000 people have died as a result of the crackdown on protests since they began last March.

The league called on both sides to end the bloodshed.

The government in Damascus says it is fighting "terrorists and armed gangs" and claims that some 2,000 members of the security forces have been killed.

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"Syria rejects the decisions taken which are outside an Arab working plan, and considers them an attack on its national sovereignty and a flagrant interference in internal affairs," the unnamed Syrian official said.

Continue reading the main story Jeremy Bowen BBC Middle East editor, Homs

The Arab League is essentially asking President Assad to give up power, to just step aside.

Everything he has said since all this began suggests that is something he does not want to do.

Diplomatically speaking there isn't really a game at the moment.

It means that the various initiatives that have been tried over a period of months culminating in the one from the Arab League have got precisely nowhere.

The Arab League is increasingly split, disunited, rancorous about what exactly is to be done about Syria.

Its initiative that seemed to start with quite a lot of unanimity at the end of last year is looking in tatters.

On a government trip to the embattled city of Homs, we've been shown the burnt remains of bodies in a morgue after what soldiers described as an ambush on Sunday morning that killed 11 troops.

The official said the Arab League proposals were not in the interests of the Syrian people and would not prevent the country from "advancing its political reforms and bringing security and stability to its people".

Saudi Arabia said it was pulling out of the league's 165-strong monitoring mission in Syria because Damascus had broken promises on peace initiatives.

While the Arab League ministers said they were extending the controversial mission for another month, analysts say the Saudi decision has thrown its longer-term future into doubt.

Saudi Arabia is one of the key funders of the league's projects, but the monitors have been criticised for failing to stop the violence.

Speaking in Cairo on Monday, the head of the monitors, Sudanese General Mohammed al-Dabi, defended the mission.

He said the monitors were in Syria to observe implementation of an Arab League plan to end the violence, and indeed, despite some shootings and explosions they had seen the situation improve while they were there.

The Arab League is now increasingly split over what could be done to resolve the Syrian crisis, the BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen in Syria reports.

With the Syrians rejecting the conditions of the initiative, the Arab League's roadmap is effectively in tatters, our correspondent says.

Jeremy Bowen met pro-Assad supporters at a demo in Damascus

Meanwhile, violence has continued in Syria, with activists reporting battles between government troops and army defectors in the Damascus suburb of Douma on Sunday.

At least five people were killed there, according to Syria's Local Coordination Committees (LCC), as well as seven other people in other parts of the country.

Authorities in the city of Homs told our correspondent that 11 soldiers had been killed in an ambush on Sunday, while a doctor at a military hospital in the embattled city said five dead soldiers had been brought in on Monday.

Activists say almost 1,000 people have been killed since the monitoring mission began in December.

Continue reading the main story More than 5,000 civilians killed since March, says the UNUN denied access to SyriaInformation gathered from NGOs, sources in Syria and Syrians who have fledVast majority of casualties were unarmed, but the figure may include armed defectorsTally does not include serving members of the security forces

Source: UN's OHCHR

'No military intervention' At the Arab League meeting, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal urged the international community to step in and put pressure on Damascus.

The meeting of Arab League foreign ministers called on President Assad to delegate power to one of his vice-presidents and to engage in proper dialogue with the opposition within two weeks, and form a government of national unity in two months.

It was not clear which vice-president, Farouk al-Shara or Najah al-Attar, the Arab League had in mind to assume power.

The league said this should eventually lead to multi-party elections overseen by international observers.

Qatar's Prime Minister, who is also foreign minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, said the league would seek the support of the UN Security Council for the changes.

But he added: "We're not talking about military intervention."

Mohammed al-Dabi, Arab League monitoring mission: Events in Syria are 'unacceptable'

Speaking before an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said a Security Council resolution on Syria was overdue and it had been a mistake for China and Russia to have blocked a previous attempt at one.

The EU foreign ministers called on President Assad to "step aside immediately to allow for a peaceful and democratic transition".

They also agreed on new sanctions against 22 Syrian officials accused of human rights abuses and eight companies that financially support the Assad regime, hitting them with travel bans and a freeze of assets.

Existing EU sanctions include an arms embargo, a ban on the import of Syrian crude oil and a ban on new investment in the Syrian petroleum sector.

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Power blackout hits Chile, halts copper mines

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1 of 3. A woman listens to news on the radio during a blackout in Vina del Mar city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago September 24, 2011.

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SANTIAGO | Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:04pm EDT

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A massive power blackout paralyzed crucial copper mines in Chile on Saturday and darkened vast swaths of the country including the capital Santiago before energy was largely restored, officials said.

The outage acutely exposed the fragility of the energy grid in the world's top copper producer, which was devastated by a powerful earthquake in 2010.

Critics have blamed Chilean President Sebastian Pinera for under-investment in infrastructure and his popularity ratings have dropped since taking office last year. Prior to the power failure, he was already struggling with massive protests by university students demanding deep educational reforms.

Scrambling engineers were able to fully restore power generation and get distribution up to 90 percent of normal, the government said after the blackout, which lasted a couple of hours in most places.

"We've regained power in various regions of the country," said Chilean Energy Minister Rodrigo Alvarez.

At an earlier briefing, Alvarez said the cause of the outage was unknown but that computers that help run the energy grid had also malfunctioned. The blackout primarily hit the center of the country, where nearly 10 million of Chile's 16 million people live.

Initially, Angloamerican said its Los Bronces mine was halted and state-run Codelco said its Andina division and El Teniente mine were also paralyzed.

But Codelco later said power had been restored at the Andina division and El Teniente. It said output was not hurt at Andina as generators were used.

Meanwhile, Los Bronces said it was relying on generators and production was at a third of capacity as normal energy supplies had yet to come on line.

Authorities said the Collahuasi and Chuquicamata mines in the far north of Chile were not affected and that the blackout did not extend that far.

(Additional reporting by Antonio Delajara and Alexandra Ulmer; Writing by Terry Wade; Editing by Todd Eastham)

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California Blackout a reminder of vulnerability of U.S. power grid

SAN DIEGO - Power has been restored to millions of people in the southwest of the United States and the Mexico after a massive power outage, but questions remain about how such a huge failure could have been caused by a single utility worker doing work for minor repairs.

Failure of Thursday has intrigued experts and authorities and recalled that the U.S. transmission lines remain vulnerable to cascading blackouts.

Several similar failures have been in recent years. In 2003, a power outage has knocked unconscious power to 50 million people in the Midwest and Northeast. And, in 2005, a major failure struck the metropolitan area of Los Angeles.

The same year, Congress required utilities to comply with the standards of Federal reliability for the electrical network, instead of self-regulation. Layers of guarantees and safeguards were intended to isolate problems and make sure that power keeps flowing.

But this is not to arrive Thursday.

"There are a lot of critical pieces of equipment on the system and we have less defense that we believe, said Rich Sedano at the regulatory Assistance project, a utility industry think tank based in Montpellier, Vermont."

The worker of Arizona Public Service Co. switching out a capacitor, which controls levels of tension, outside of Yuma, Arizona, near the border of California. Shortly after, a section of a line of regional power has failed, possibly disorder spread rained down in California and the Mexico later, officials said.

And the lights have started out in the border region of approximately 6 million people.

The blackout has eliminated traffic lights, causing traffic jams on the roads in the area of San Diego. Two reactors at a nuclear power plant to the coast of California went offline after losing power. More than 2 million gallons of wastewater discharged into the water off the coast of San Diego, the eighth largest U.S. city of closing beaches.

The National University System Institute for Policy Research, believes the interruption of the San Diego-area economy over $ 100 million.

Many had to spend the night, both sides of the border in the United States and Mexico, difficulty falling asleep in high temperatures.

Federal investigators and States are trying to determine what caused the failure and how it is possible to prevent future problems. If regulatory violations are discovered, the Government could issue fines of up to 1 million per day for each offence, said officials.

Among the questions they ask are the reason for which guarantees to keep the power flowing appeared to work, at least at first. There is a gap of about 10 minutes between the time when the power line failed and customers lost electricity, said Daniel Froetscher, vice president of the Phoenix-based APS energy delivery.

The line was "solid, reliable" without a history of problems, said Froetscher.

San Diego Gas & Electric Co. should have isolated the problem by arresting the Powerlink southwest of 500 kV as it did in 2007 forest fires, said Michael Shames, Executive Director of the advocacy group, utility Consumers' Action Network.

"If a fire occurs in the kitchen, the first thing you do is close the door to the kitchen to stop it from spreading,", he said.

He also questioned why the San Onofre nuclear plant was forced to close, and why the other backup energy did not kick in.

Of Michael Niggli, SDG & E President and Chief Executive Officer, said that the company did not have the time to close the line because it had no warning.

Said Niggli automatic circuit breakers to San Onofre prevent the power failure spread to Southern California Edison, which serves 14 million people in the Los Angeles area.

At a Friday press conference, Niggli compared the grid to a peaceful pond. "When someone throws a rock here, it causes ripples. According to what rock has, these wrinkles are touching everyone who is in the pond, "he says.

Experts believe that the problem could have been worse by the manner in which the flow of power in California.
California imports of huge amounts of power from Arizona and other States. When variations in voltage caused the San Onofre nuclear power plant to shut down to protect themselves, it deprives the grid of a huge source of energy generated in California.

Normally, this power loss would result more from Arizona.

But this power was already offline, depriving the area of power.

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