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Ruling Government Will Not Support Power Price Guarantee for Czech Nuclear Project
Source: NewsCzech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has said his government will not approve a power price guarantee for electricity generated by two new reactors planned at the Temelin nuclear plant. Czech utility CEZ began soliciting bids…
France Publishes Plan For Dealing With Nuclear And Radiological Emergencies
Source: NucNet7 Feb (NucNet): The French government has published a plan for dealing with major nuclear and radiological accidents, covering emergencies both inside and outside France that call for a response from the state at national…
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsAn order to cut worker doses at Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 and a request to release plant groundwater into the sea highlighted the news from Japan this week. Developments related to the Tokyo Electric Power…
Workers Released from Hospital, WIPP Waste Site Safe After Truck Fire
Source: NewsThe Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico has temporarily stopped accepting waste but remained secure following a fire underground. At about 11 a.m., Wednesday, a truck hauling salt from a new sector of the…
Cameco Uranium Conversion Plant Shut Down While Regulators Investigate Incident
Source: NewsCanada's sole uranium conversion plant is offline pending an investigation by regulators into an unplanned shutdown last week. Cameco, which owns the Port Hope Conversion Facility, reported that the uranium hexafluoride plant was in operation…
NRC Chairman Warns Over ‘Hasty Construction’ Of New Nuclear Stations
Source: NucNet6 Feb (NucNet): Any situation in which the hasty construction of a new nuclear power station takes precedence over careful development of a robust domestic safety infrastructure is of great concern, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
Worker Dies on Refueling Floor of Cooper Nuclear Plant, Natural Causes Suspected
Source: NewsPolice and the Nebraska Public Power District are investigating the death of a worker at the Cooper nuclear plant Tuesday, although the circumstances suggest he died from natural causes. The control room received a report…
No Opposition ‘In Principle’ Towards Deep Geological Repository In France, Says Andra
Source: NucNet6 Feb (NucNet): A panel from France’s Commission Nationale du Débat Public (National Commission for Public Debate; CNDP) has said it is not “in principle” against the Cigéo national deep geological repository project, the National…
NS Book Review: ATOMIC ACCIDENTS: A HISTORY OF NUCLEAR MELTDOWNS AND DISASTERS FROM THE OZARK MOUNTAINS TO FUKUSHIMA By James Mahaffey
Source: NewsAlthough Coach Friel was talking about endurance athletes, his words can be applied to many of life's situations, including those involving accidents with nuclear material, devices and reactors. Part detective story, part documentary, part diabolical…
Tepco Says It Is Making ‘Significant Progress On Several Fronts’
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNet5 Feb (NucNet): Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (Tepco) says significant progress is being made on several fronts at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station, including the safe removal of nuclear fuel from the spent fuel pool…
Unusual Event Declared After Smoke Fills Battery Room at Brunswick Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsSmoke restricted access to a battery room at unit 1 of North Carolina's Brunswick nuclear plant Monday, prompting operators to issue an unusual event declaration. Just after 10 a.m., a standby UPS inverter cabinet was…
Atomic Journal Questions Capital Cost Of SMRs
Source: NucNet4 Feb (NucNet): Small modular reactors (SMRs) will not offer satisfactory solutions to the most pressing problems of nuclear energy such as high capital cost, safety, and weapons proliferation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists…
Westinghouse Shifts Resources from Small Modular Reactors to AP1000
Source: NewsSaying he does not see a large enough market materializing for the technology in the near future, the CEO of Westinghouse announced the company has shifted staff working on its small modular reactor to the…
Duke Energy Offers to Buy Out Co-Owner of the Brunswick and Harris Nuclear Plants
Source: NewsDuke Energy has begun negotiating with the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency to purchase the agency's minority stake in two nuclear plants. The NCEMPA owns 18.3 percent of both reactors at the Brunswick plant…
TVA Resolves Red NRC Finding at Browns Ferry 1
Source: NewsThe Tennessee Valley Authority has met the requirements imposed by federal regulators after a residual heat removal system pump was found to be inoperable in 2010. Because the pump had not been functional since late…
Salem, Millstone Reactors Taken Offline Friday
Source: NewsMechanical problems took two reactors in the Northeast offline Friday. At the Salem plant in New Jersey, operators took unit 2 offline at 10:01 a.m. when a control rod became mispositioned during regular testing. Quoting…
Canada Increases Absolute Liability Limit Of Operators To CAD 1 billion
Source: NucNet3 Feb (NucNet): The Canadian government has passed a law establishing a compensation and civil liability regime for nuclear accidents which includes compensation of up to one billion Canadian dollars (CAD) (900 million US dollars,…
Axpo Board Decides To Halt Russian Uranium For Beznau
Source: NucNet31 Jan (NucNet): The board of directors of the Swiss company Axpo Holding AG, owner of the two-unit Beznau nuclear station has decided to discontinue uranium deliveries for the production of fuel elements from the…
Inspection Reveals Flaws in Palisades CRDM Housings, No Leaks Found
Source: NewsInspections during a refueling outage have turned up flaws in the housing of control rod drive mechanisms at the Palisades nuclear plant. They were not through-wall, and no leakage was found. Nonetheless, 17 of 45…
NRC Paves Way For South Dakota Uranium Recovery Project
Source: NucNet31 Jan (NucNet): There is no potential environmental impact that would prevent the licencing of the proposed Dewey-Burdock uranium recovery project in South Dakota, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has concluded in its final…