World Nuclear News
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Graphite production for PBMR set to start
Source: World Nuclear NewsSouth Africa's National Nuclear Regulator has given the go-ahead for the start of production of graphite feedstock for the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor demonstration unit. The…
First Uranium grants marketing rights to Traxys
Source: World Nuclear NewsTraxys Group has been granted exclusive marketing rights over uranium production from the Ezulwini mine and Mine Waste Solutions (MWS) tailings re-treatment operation, First Uranium has…
Areva: Outlook bright despite OL3 overruns
Source: World Nuclear NewsAreva is anticipating orders and revenue to increase sharply over the remainder of 2008, although it has had to make an additional provision on the contract…
Entergy prepares for Gustav
Source: World Nuclear NewsUS utility Entergy said it was monitoring Hurricane Gustav and making preparations for the storm, which is to make landfall in Louisiana today. As a precaution…
Restrictions relaxed at Fleurus
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: World Nuclear NewsLimits on the use of rainwater and garden produce have been relaxed somewhat at Fleurus, Belgium, as more information about the radioactive emission emerges. Iodine from…
Kursk workers swap fuel rods for fishing rods
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: World Nuclear NewsA fishing tournament organized by the Trade Union and the Youth Organization of Russia's Kursk nuclear power plant was dedicated to the memory of the former…
Medical plant shut down after emission
Source: World Nuclear NewsA medical and industrial isotope production factory in Belgium has been shut down after an unusual release of one of its products, iodine-131, through its chimney…
Hutton wants deal soon between BE and EdF
Source: World Nuclear News[Telegraph, 28 August] The UK's business secretary, John Hutton, has said that he wants a deal between British Energy (BE) and Electricité de France (EdF) to…
Medical community eyes reactor shutdowns
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe operating schedules of five research reactors have caused a certain amount of alarm in the nuclear medicine community. It was about nine months ago that…
An agenda to integrate
Source: World Nuclear NewsA new company has been formed to smooth out the lumps and bumps in nuclear fuel supply market. Accord Nuclear Resources will be backed by the…
Coal power to abort the nuclear industry?
Source: World Nuclear NewsAustralia's Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union thinks residents of Queensland would rather work in a coal mine than a nuclear power plant. The union's mining division…
Spanish reactors hit by series of incidents
Source: World Nuclear News[Reuters, 26 August] Spain's nuclear safety regulator, the Nuclear Safety Council (Consejo De Seguridad Nuclear, CSN) has called for a meeting of the country's nuclear power…
Kazakh uranium workers compete for gold
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: World Nuclear NewsThe Beijing Olympics may be over, but Kazakh uranium industry workers are now holding their own mini-Olympics. KazAtomProm announced that its 8th Annual Sports Contest began…
India trade talks set for second round
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: World Nuclear NewsLast week's talks at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) were adjourned leaving a second meeting in early September key to the Indian nuclear trade initiative. Several…
Cameco digs into exploration in Niger
Source: World Nuclear NewsCanadian uranium giant Cameco has taken a stake in a company exploring for the mineral in Niger, marking its first foray in the country. The strategic…
Nuclear plant saved from swarm
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: World Nuclear NewsNuclear sites are often havens for wildlife, but Britain's Sellafield proved too popular recently when a swarm of 40,000 bees descended on its Waste Encapsulation Plant.…
Areva to 'decaffeinate' ash to remove uranium
Source: World Nuclear NewsAreva and the University of Idaho have signed an agreement to develop technology – similar to the process used for removing caffeine from coffee beans –…
New low for US workers' radiation dose
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: World Nuclear NewsAmerican nuclear safety regulators said that 2007 saw the lowest ever collective radiation dose to the country's nuclear workers. Regulators said they wanted to keep up…
A plan to license NGNP
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) project took another step forward on 15 August when the US Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission submitted a…
New date for Atucha 2
Topics: New ReactorsSource: World Nuclear News[Dow Jones, 15 August] Argentina's planning minister, Julio De Vido, has said that the country's third nuclear power plant – Atucha 2 – will begin operating…