June, 2008

Canada’s Cameco Corporation said yesterday that it is joining a uranium enrichment business venture in the US which will extend the company's involvement in the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle.

5 Jun (NucNet): A leak of coolant from the primary circuit of Slovenia’s Krsko nuclear power plant, which led to a controlled shut-down of the plant yesterday, has been provisionally rated as level 0 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES).

3 Jun (NucNet): The long-awaited application to construct the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada has been submitted to nuclear regulators, energy secretary Samuel Bodman announced today.

18 Jun (NucNet): Physicists in Europe have expressed “alarm” at the declining number of nuclear science students and have called for the preservation of nuclear knowledge to ensure the continent remains a key player in the development of nuclear energy...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and the Kazakhstan Atomic Energy Committee have signed a memorandum of understanding paving the way for an agreement on research into high-temperature gas cooled reactors (HTRs).

10 Jun (NucNet): An application to build a new third generation light-water reactor (LWR) unit in Switzerland has been submitted for a general licence – a ‘framework approval’ – to the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.

17 Jun (NucNet): The International Energy Agency (IEA) has praised Japanese policies for showing “technology leadership” and helping to drive enhanced energy security and climate change mitigation worldwide.

17 Jun (NucNet): France’s Areva group has been awarded six service contracts for work on Brazil’s Angra-1 and -2 nuclear reactor units.

12 Jun (NucNet): The UK government is inviting communities to volunteer to host a deep geological repository for the storage of higher activity radioactive waste.

Bruce Power is to study the potential of bringing nuclear energy to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan as part of a wider look at clean energy technologies.

3 Jun (NucNet): There is enough uranium known to exist to fuel the world's fleet of nuclear reactors at current consumption rates for at least a century, according to the latest edition of the world reference on uranium published today, the so-called...