The massive quake knocked out cooling systems to reactors at the country's Fukushima nuclear plant.
Engineers said they were considering also injecting nitrogen into the number two and three reactors.
Before 2000, America encouraged Argentina to export nuclear research reactors to Peru, Egypt, Algeria and Australia.
The few new reactors being built in Europe are far over their already big budgets.
Last year the current, centre-right lot extended the lives of seven ageing reactors by eight years.
It runs 73 fossil and hydro plants along with six nuclear reactors at three sites.
By comparison, there are 104 nuclear reactors in the United States and 58 in France.
And there are of signs new reactors will be as hard to build as ever.
Companies with boiling-water reactors similar to the ones in Japan include Exelon Corp.
In addition, Prime Minister Noda ordered two reactors in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, to be restarted.
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Staff also misunderstood problems that arose with the cooling systems for reactors 1 and 3.
The plan is to build two reactors, which together would generate 3.2GW of electricity.
Waves knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, leading to meltdowns at three of them.
The optimistic target for completion of the first of the two reactors was 2003.
The power plant's cooling systems failed after the quake and tsunami, leading to the reactors overheating.
The last two run the gamut from mining ore to building reactors to making fuel rods.
In the discussions about it here the subject of thorium reactors comes up.
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Your potato chips has nothing in common with isotopes spewing out of blown up reactors.
Relative to these staggering losses, collateral impacts arising from damaged reactors will likely be very minor.
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We have lots of ways to boil water without the expense and danger of nuclear reactors.
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Southern Company (NYSE:SO) recently received an award to build two new reactors in Georgia.
Westinghouse has designed half the world's existing reactors, and it is already active in China.
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The reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi are called boiling-water reactors (BWRs) and were manufactured by General Electric.
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Senator McCain is supporting the construction of 45 new nuclear reactors over the next two decades.
The crews produced vital maps of the plume of radiation escaping from the crippled reactors.
The company mines uranium, makes nuclear fuel, designs and builds reactors and reprocesses spent fuel.
Right-sized nuclear reactors face the same financial and regulatory obstacles as do their bigger brothers.
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Its two reactors generate enough electricity for the entire regions of Normandy and Brittany.
The Stop Hinkley group said reactors will discharge more radioactive waste into the Severn Estuary.
The great tragedy of the Fukushima accident is that Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors.
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