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New South African enrichment process
Source: World Nuclear NewsA new isotope enrichment process with eventual application to uranium has been announced by a South African company. It represents a revival of an historic project, never thought to be commercially viable. …
Forgemasters to pump up capabilities?
Source: World Nuclear NewsBritiain's Sheffield Forgemasters has won a contract to produce nuclear-grade steel pumps casings for Westinghouse AP1000 reactors. The company is considering adding a press that would allow it to make reactor pressure vessels. …
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 graphite will shape and hold the unit's reactor core…
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 announced. The agreement with Traxys, a global metals, minerals…
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 to build Finland's Olkiluoto 3 because of cost overruns.…
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 the company has shut down its Waterford nuclear power…
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 the nuclear medicine factory was released on 23-24 August.…
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 director of the plant, Vladimir Gusarov. Current and past…
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 stack. Workers at the plant are unhurt, but local…
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 be agreed within the next two weeks. An offer…
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 a problem at Canada's main production reactor led to…
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 First Reserve private equity group and intends to operate…
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 has begun an advertising campaign featuring glum-looking miners and…
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 plant operators following a series of incidents. On Monday,…
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 on 25 August, with almost 1000 workers from the…
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 nations raised objections to US proposals, but these are…
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 alliance could see Cameco invest up to $212 million.…
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. The main entrance near where the bees had gathered…
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 – for recovering uranium from incinerator ash from Areva's uranium…
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 the downward trend. …