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• Chalk River workers propose own future

  Workers at Canada's Chalk River Laboratories are awaiting a response from the country's natural resources minister on their own proposal for the future of the facility in the restructuring of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Posted Dec 02 2009, 10:12 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: AECL, Canada, Chalk River, labor, atomic energy of canada limited, natural resources, ministry

• Exelon cuts 500 to save costs

  Jobs are being lost at one of the world's largest nuclear utilities in a search for efficiency during "today's difficult economic and business circumstances." Posted Jun 19 2009, 11:44 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: jobs, Exelon, labor

• Happy nuclear families for CGNPC

  A ceremony last month took employee relations to a new level for China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company (CGNPC), when its top executives acted as witnesses for a mass wedding of 199 staff couples. Posted Jun 19 2009, 07:26 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: China, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company, labor

• Workers tackle radioactive wasp nests

  [Tri-City Herald, 11 June] Workers cleaning up the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington State, USA, are having to deal with an unexpected hazard: thousands of radioactive wasp nests. The nests were all built in 2003 when water was used to dampen dust during demolition of an H Reactor basin, which once held fuel irradiated at the reactor until it was processed to extract plutonium for the US nuclear weapons program. The resulting mud attracted mud dauber wasps, which used it to build their tube-shaped nests in top soil that had been freshly-laid on other wastes sites on the reservation. The wasps abandon their nests and build new ones elsewhere each spring. Workers using excavators will dig up to one foot (30cm) of top soil from six acres near the H Reactor. In addition, another 50 to 60 individual nests will be dug up over about 75 acres of the Hanford site. "This is just an example of the issues we deal with in digging up burial grounds," said Todd Nelson, spokesman for Washington Closure Hanford, the contractor hired to clean up the area under the oversight of the US Department of Energy. "You don't know what you're going to run into, and this is probably one of the more unusual situations." He described the nests as "fairly highly contaminated." Washington Closure will spend about six weeks cleaning up the nests and trucking the waste to a lined landfill for low-level radioactive waste in central Hanford. Workers will eventually replant vegetation in the area, at a cost of about $25,000. Posted Jun 12 2009, 12:04 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: safety, maintenance, labor

• Labour agreement signed for US nuclear project

  Bechtel has signed an "historic" agreement with trade unions covering work on Unistar's proposed Calvert Cliffs nuclear new build project in Maryland, USA. Posted Jun 02 2009, 10:44 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Bechtel, Calvert Cliffs, labor

• Trade union doubts Italy's nuclear revival

  Leaders at Italy's major trade union have expressed scepticism on the revival of nuclear power in Italy, despite increasing political and industrial support for nuclear. Posted Apr 23 2009, 06:35 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Italy, nuclear revival, labor