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Mexico Finalising Plans To Retrieve Radioactive Source From Field
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: NucNet9 Dec (NucNet): Mexico is finalising plans for the retrieval of the dangerous radioactive source abandoned in a field after the truck transporting it was stolen last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has…
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsThis week, international and Japanese authorities recommended releasing tritiated water at Fukushima Daiichi, while rising contamination levels in a well brought mixed news on efforts to control untreated water at the plant. Recent developments related…
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Reports It's Ready to Restart
Source: NewsThe Fort Calhoun nuclear plant idled since flooding and a fire at the site during a refueling outage in 2011 has formally asked regulators to restart. The Omaha Public Power District has notified the Nuclear…
IAEA Team Urges Tepco To Consider Radioactive Water Release Into Sea
Source: NucNet6 Dec (NucNet): Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has made significant progress towards decommissioning the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant, but should consider a controlled release of radioactive water into the sea in an effort to manage…
Argentina Awards Contract For Carem RPV
Source: NucNet6 Dec (NucNet): The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for Argentina’s prototype Carem small modular reactor unit is to be manufactured domestically by engineering company Industrias Metalúrgicas Pescarmona. …
Mexican Authorities Find Stolen Cobalt-60
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: NewsOn Wednesday evening, a nuclear safety official in Mexico said police found a stolen truck transporting the medical isotope cobalt-60. The radioactive teletherapy material was en route from Tijuana to a waste storage center Monday…
Canada Signs International Convention On Nuclear Liability
Source: NucNet5 Dec (NucNet): Canada has signed the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC), bringing the treaty another step closer towards full ratification. …
Unrelated Incidents Cut Power Output at Two Palo Verde Reactors
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsTwo of the three units at the country's largest nuclear plant cut their power output Monday following unrelated mechanical problems. Unit 2 at the Palo Verde plant operated by Arizona Public Service shut down completely…
UK Agrees Loan Guarantee For New Hitachi Nuclear Station At Wylfa
Source: NucNet4 Dec (NucNet): The UK government has agreed to provide a loan guarantee to Japan’s Hitachi to help it finance a new nuclear power station on the island of Anglesey in north Wales. …
Shutdowns Hit Nuclear Generation In OECD Countries
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet3 Dec (NucNet): Electricity generated by nuclear energy in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) area declined between 2011 and 2012 by 5.2 percent, reflecting the permanent shutdown of three reactors that had…
Court Upholds Water Use for Utah Nuclear Project
Source: NewsA proposed nuclear plant in Utah has withstood a significant legal challenge as a judge upheld the validity of water rights for the project. As it pursues two new reactors in Emery County, Blue Castle…
Potential EU Investigation Could Delay Reactor Construction in UK
Source: NewsA likely investigation by the European Union could hold up a deal between the UK and EDF on the construction of new reactors at Hinkley Point. The Guardian and other outlets reported Monday that the…
Seabrook Nuclear Plant Union, Management Reach Labor Deal
Source: NewsWith a lockout threat looming and a little more than a day left to negotiate, NextEra Energy and a union representing about a third of employees at the Seabrook nuclear plant announced a likely labor…
Turbine Trip Takes Hope Creek Nuclear Plant Offline
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsPSEG's Hope Creek reactor in New Jersey shut down automatically on Sunday. A plant spokesman told the South Jersey Times that a high moisture separator level tripped the plant's turbine, which caused the reactor to…
Swedish Regulator Approves Postponement Of Ringhals Modernisation
Source: NucNet2 Dec (NucNet): The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) has accepted a proposal for the postponement of modernisation work at units 2, 3 and 4 of the four-unit Ringhals nuclear plant, a statement said. …
Holtec Completes Nuclear Fuel Storage Basket that use Nanotechnology
Source: NewsHoltec announced the successful completion of the first batch of Metamic-HT spent fuel storage baskets for their 89 storage cell BWR canister, MPC-89. The HI-STORM FW canister-based dry cask storage system (NRC Docket 72-1032) is…
Pakistan Begins Construction Of New Nuclear Plant
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet29 Nov (NucNet): Pakistan says it has broken ground on a new nuclear power plant to be built 40 kilometres from the city of Karachi on the country’s southwest coast. …
China To Help Romania Complete Two Candu Reactors
Source: NucNet29 Nov (NucNet): The China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPG) has signed a letter of intent with the Romanian Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) to invest in the country’s Cernavodă-3 and -4 nuclear units. …
China’s Hongyanhe-2 Connected To Grid
Source: NucNet29 Nov (NucNet): Unit 2 at the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in northeast China has connected to the grid, the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPG) has said in a statement. …
IAEA Team Reviews Fukushima Decommissioning Progress
Source: NucNet29 Nov (NucNet): A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency is visiting the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan as part of an independent review of efforts and plans to decommission the plant. …