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Proposed Budget Reduces Funding for SRS MOX Plant
Source: NewsIn a budget proposal Wednesday, the Obama administration said it will explore alternatives to the Savannah River Site's MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility and proposed a $133 million cut to the project's budget.
NRC Head Warns Global Regulators On Pace Of SMR Development
Source: NucNet10 Apr (NucNet): If the development of new nuclear technologies such as small modular reactors (SMRs) outpaces the development of regulatory controls, nuclear safety, security, and environmental protection may be jeopardised, the chairman of the…
Tepco Uses Temporary Pumps To Stop Fukushima-Daiichi Leaks
Source: NucNet10 Apr (NucNet): The operator of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has installed temporary pumps in an effort to stop the leaking of contaminated water from two water storage reservoirs at the crippled…
Industry Disputes Former NRC Chairman's Assertion That U.S. Nuclear Plants Are Unsafe
Source: NewsThe former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has again provoked the indignation of the industry he used to regulate by asserting that fundamental safety flaws make U.S. power reactors unfit for relicensing.
Iran Says Power Reactor Undamaged in Earthquake
Source: NewsA deadly earthquake in southwest Iran has not damaged the country's sole commercial nuclear plant, according to an Iranian report to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
NRC Sends Inspectors to Arkansas Nuclear Plant Following Industrial Accident
Source: NewsFederal regulators have ordered an investigation at Arkansas Nuclear One, where a falling generator stator caused a fatal accident last week.
NNSA Helps Czech Republic Ship Last of Its Highly Enriched Uranium to Russia
Source: NewsThe United States and Russia have helped move the final shipment of highly enriched uranium from a research reactor in the Czech Republic, representing the last of the material in the country that could be…
Active Regulatory Involvement Needed In Repository Siting, Says NEA Study
Source: NucNet9 Apr (NucNet): Successful experiences in siting radioactive waste management facilities have shown that “active regulatory involvement” is needed and is also possible “without endangering the independence and integrity of the nuclear safety regulator”, a…
Plans Cancelled For New Unit In Fukushima Prefecture
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet8 Apr (NucNet): Tohoku Electric Power Company has announced the cancellation of plans to construct the Namie-Odaka nuclear power plant in Namie, in Fukushima prefecture near the crippled Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant. …
Summer Nuclear Plant Back Online After Pump Seal Repairs
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsThe V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant in South Carolina exited a mid-cycle outage last week after repairs to back-up pump seals.
Final Shipment To Russia Sees Czech Republic Free Of HEU
Source: NucNet8 Apr (NucNet): The Czech Republic is now free of highly enriched uranium (HEU) after a shipment saw the last batch successfully returned to Russia, the country of origin. …
USEC Completes Construction Of Demonstration American Centrifuge Cascade
Source: NucNet5 Apr (NucNet): The US enrichment corporation USEC has completed construction of its American Centrifuge commercial demonstration cascade, designed to confirm the technical readiness of the next-generation US uranium enrichment technology. …
Rosatom Invited For Negotiations On Finland’s Planned Hanhikivi-1
Source: NucNet5 Apr (NucNet): Finnish utility Fennovoima said today it had invited Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom to take part in negotiations for the planned Hanhikivi-1 nuclear reactor project at Pyhäjoki in northern Finland. …
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsWorkers at Fukushima Daiichi have begun building an underground structure to block contaminated groundwater from reaching the ocean, while a recent power outage has resulted in temporary pay cuts for Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives.Developments…
Turkey Close to Selecting Bidder for New Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsTurkey's energy minister denied a recent report in Japanese media that the country had selected Areva and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build a 5,000 megawatt nuclear plant at Sinop.
Nuclear Energy Has Prevented 1.8 Million Air Pollution Deaths, Says Report
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: NucNet4 Apr (NucNet): Nuclear energy has prevented about 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths and 64 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that would have resulted from fossil fuel burning, a report says. …
Board Raises Safety, Design Concerns With Hanford Waste Facilities
Source: NewsIn a letter to a senator likely to bring enhanced political scrutiny to the Department of Energy, a federal panel has reiterated several concerns it lodged with the DOE over its partially built vitrification plant…
Nuclear Workers’ Union Criticises UK Government Strategy On New Build
Source: NucNet3 Apr (NucNet): The trade union that represents workers in the UK’s nuclear energy industry has called on the government to establish a nationalised authority to bring on stream some of the nuclear power stations…
EC Approves Bulgaria’s Plans For Kozloduy Radioactive Waste Disposal
Source: NucNet3 Apr (NucNet): Bulgaria’s plans for the disposal of radioactive waste from the decommissioning of the first two reactors at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant have been approved by the European Commission. …
Leading NASA Climate Scientists: Nuclear Plants Worldwide Have Prevented 1.84 Million Air Pollution-Related Deaths
Source: NewsLeading climate scientists, including the outgoing head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, recently published a paper asserting that nuclear power has the potential to prevent millions of pollution-related deaths and is a superior…