June, 2009

29 Jun (NucNet): Japanese utilities are to take part in feasibility study for a new uranium mine development project in the state of Western Australia. The study will be carried out by the Canadian uranium mining company, Mega Uranium Ltd.

26 Jun (NucNet): Dutch utility Delta yesterday launched the procedure that will eventually lead to the application for a permit to build a second nuclear power plant near the existing one at Borssele.

25 Jun (NucNet): Analyses in several US states show that new reactor units will be the “least cost option” for new generation, the country’s Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) has said.

24 Jun (NucNet): A replacement reactor vessel closure head (RRVCH) has been shipped from Japan for unit 1 of the South Texas Project nuclear power plant in the US.

24 Jun (NucNet): Proposals on energy and the climate, including the need for further international cooperation on nuclear energy, has been submitted by scientists to all of the governments taking part in next month’s summit in Italy of the group of eight...

18 Jun (NucNet): The head of the Sweden-based utility Vattenfall is to join a new United Nations (UN) advisory group on enrgy and climate change.

18 Jun (NucNet): The Cameco Corporation said yesterday that it had resumed production of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) at its Port Hope conversion facility in Canada's Ontario province.

17 Jun (NucNet): More US suppliers will be needed to provide materials necessary for the construction of new nuclear power plants in the country, the head of DTE Energy told a meeting of business, government and academic leaders in the city of Detroit...

17 Jun (NucNet): A contract has been signed with the main suppliers for the completion of units 3 and 4 of Slovakia's Mochovce nuclear power plant.

16 Jun (NucNet): Russia's Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) has granted Energoatom Concern a licence for the construction of the third and fourth units of the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant (also...

16 Jun (NucNet): Japan's prime minister Taro Aso says he wants to make widespread use of nuclear energy in an effort to reduce Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.

16 Jun (NucNet): South Korea is to take a 2.5 percent stake in the Georges Besse II enrichment plant in France, where production is set to start this year.

9 Jun (NucNet): The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued its final safety evaluation report (SER) for the proposed renewal of operating licences for each of the two pressurised water reactor units at the Beaver Valley nuclear power plant...

9 Jun (NucNet): Russia has agreed to supply Japan's Chubu Electric Power Company with enriched uranium until the early 2020's.

9 Jun (NucNet): The UK's twin-unit Wylfa nuclear power plant has been given the go-ahead to continue generating electricity for at least nine months after its planned closure date of March 2010.

3 Jun (NucNet): Russia and Oman are to set up a joint working group to outline plans for establishing a civilian nuclear energy industry in the Middle East sultanate.

3 Jun (NucNet): A straw poll on the five candidates nominated for the post of director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be held at a closed meeting of the agency’s board of governors in Vienna on 9 June 2009.