August, 2007

31 Aug (NucNet) US nuclear power plants posted an average daily capacity factor of more than 98 per cent during the first two weeks of August, according to electricity production data reported by energy companies to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)...

31 Aug (NucNet) Forty-seven per cent of electricity in the Canadian province of Ontario should be provided by nuclear energy by 2025, under an Integrated Power System Plan (IPSP) filed with the Ontario Energy Board.

30 Aug (NucNet): India is increasing the domestic production of uranium following a “temporary mismatch’” in demand and supply from the country’s operational uranium mines, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) has announced.

Aug 29 (NucNet): A majority of UK citizens believe that nuclear power will play a role in meeting the country's future energy needs, the results of a survey published today by 'The Times' newspaper has indicated.

Aug 29 (NucNet): King Abdullah of Jordan has urged that proposals for the launch of a nuclear power programme in his country be "speeded up".

28 Aug (NucNet) The Energy Alberta Corporation (Energy Alberta) said yesterday that it had filed an application with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for a licence to prepare for the construction of up to two twin-unit nuclear power plants in the...

The European Nuclear Society has begun a four-week 'countdown' to the launch of its major international conference, ENC 2007, which starts in Brussels, Belgium on 16 September 2007.

Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has reiterated the need for nuclear energy to help secure the country's energy security.

21 Aug (NucNet): Most of the site of the former Yankee nuclear power plant in Rowe, in the US state of Massachusetts, has been released for unrestricted public use – nearly 16 years after the plant ceased electricity production.

16 Aug (NucNet): Unit 2 of China’s Tianwan nuclear power plant started commercial operation ahead of schedule at 00.15 local time today in eastern Jiangsu province, the China National Nuclear Corporation said.

10 Aug (NucNet): Germany’s Nukem Technologies today announced that it had signed a contract with South Africa’s Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) company in connection with the fuel plant to be built for the PBMR at Pelindaba, 50 kilometres north-west...

10 Aug (NucNet): A US congressman has unveiled bipartisan legislation to speed up the construction of the Yucca Mountain deep geological repository and renew the country’s commitment to nuclear energy by streamlining the licensing process.

10 Aug (NucNet): Tests are being carried out to determine the cause of an event in which three fuel assemblies inserted into the core of the OPAL research reactor in Australia were each found to have one of 21 fuel plates partially dislodged.

10 Aug (NucNet): Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) said today it was disappointed to learn that civil construction works at the site of the country’s fifth reactor unit, Olkiluoto-3, “will be slower than originally planned”.

9 Aug (NucNet): The results of a review of seismic protection standards at South Korea’s nuclear power plants will be used when considering the future design, construction and operation of new units, the country’s government has announced.

8 Aug (NucNet): The second unit of Romania’s Cernavoda nuclear power plant was synchronised to the national grid for the first time yesterday.