September, 2009

29 Sept (NucNet): India’s prime minister today urged the world to think more about how international cooperation can “multiply the benefits of nuclear energy” for mankind.

29 Sept (NucNet): The US enrichment corporation USEC has warned that it may need to make further cuts in its American Centrifuge project and might even be forced to terminate the programme.

28 Sept (NucNet): Isotope production in Europe will remain fragile for years to come and political action is needed to help organise a “sound and economic” system of distribution for the future, according to a leading scientific body.

25 Sept (NucNet): Kazakhstan’s civil nuclear market is to be opened up to Canadian companies under a planned nuclear cooperation agreement between the two countries.

25 Sept (NucNet): Unit 4 of Japan’s Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka prefecture has been restarted and adjustment operations have begun, just over one month after an earthquake hit the region.

25 Sept (NucNet): Africa will need nuclear power to help drive economic development, one of the continent’s leaders has told the UN Security Council.

25 Sept (NucNet): The European uranium enrichment company, Urenco, said today that it had received formal approval from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a 350 million euro (EUR) (about 514 million US dollars) debt facility.

24 Sept (NucNet): The outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told the UN Security Council today that his agency’s infrastructure was “dilapidated” and lacked state of the art technology to ensure nuclear verification and security...

24 Sept (NucNet): The US-Russia ‘megatons to megawatts’ programme is now 75 percent complete after the equivalent of 15,000 nuclear warheads were eliminated, the US enrichment corporation USEC said yesterday.

24 Sept (NucNet): Regulators have proposed changes to US licensing requirements for the storage of spent nuclear fuel.

24 Sept (NucNet): Regulators have published inspection reports on quality management arrangements being used by Electricité de France (EDF) and Areva, and Westinghouse, as part of the generic design assessment (GDA) being carried out for possible new...

23 Sept (NucNet): Canada and Argentina have agreed to extend a number of nuclear cooperation programmes including development of the advanced Candu reactor (ACR-1000).

23 Sept (NucNet): Sixty-one percent of Lithuanians would approve of foreign investment in the country’s proposed new nuclear power plant, a new opinion poll has indicated.

22 Sept (NucNet): The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has launched a competition to find a parent body organisation for the Dounreay Site Restoration (DSRL) site licence company.

22 Sept (NucNet): A national partnership has been launched between the Australian National University (ANU) and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (Ansto).

17 Sept (NucNet): The Areva group said yesterday that a contract has been signed to supply 40 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies for unit 2 of Japan’s Shimane nuclear power plant.

17 Sept (NucNet): A contract has been signed paving the way for the final repatriation of spent nuclear fuel from Serbia’s Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences to Russia.

17 Sept (NucNet): National nuclear regulators today focused on licensing and the safe geological disposal of nuclear waste during the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) general conference in Vienna.

15 Sept (NucNet): The head of France’s nuclear safety authority has said he finds it “hard to believe” that there could eventually be a “standardised” reactor design available worldwide.

8 Sept (NucNet): Despite the global recession the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revised upwards its projections for nuclear power generating capacity in the medium term.

8 Sept (NucNet): Uranium producer Cameco is opening an office in India to take advantage of the country’s emerging nuclear market.

7 Sept (NucNet): The worldwide nuclear energy revival is "here to stay", the head of France's Areva group told the opening day of an international conference in Paris today.

7 Sept (NucNet): Doubts about the future of the US Yucca Mountain repository programme concern questions of policy rather than the technical aspects of the project, the international conference Global 2009* in Paris was told today.

7 Sept (NucNet): Russia is aiming for nuclear energy to account for up to 80 percent of domestic electricity generation by the end of the century, it was confirmed today.

4 Sept (NucNet): German utility Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) said yesterday that independent experts had confirmed the strong safety culture and high standard of operational safety at the country’s Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant.