September, 2011

27 Sept (NucNet): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is setting up a nuclear safety action team to oversee “prompt implementation” of a nuclear safety action plan that was drawn up in the wake of the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan.

26 Sept (NucNet): The single-unit Mühleberg nuclear power plant in Switzerland has returned to service after a major annual outage that included the completion of work to increase flooding protection.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is setting up a Nuclear Safety Action Team to oversee prompt implementation of the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety and ensure proper coordination among all stakeholders.

23 Sep (NucNet): The accident at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant earlier this year highlights the need to strengthen nuclear safety and security, United Nations officials said at a meeting convened to rally political support and advance...

The IAEA’s 151 Member States have today endorsed the Agency’s Action Plan on Nuclear Safety.

22 Sept (NucNet): United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon will today present a UN “system-wide study” on the implications of the nuclear accident at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan in March 2011.

An international team of nuclear safety experts led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reviewed the Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) near Desnogorsk, in Russia’s Smolensk region, for its safety practices and has noted a series...

21 Sept (NucNet): Czech state-owned power company CEZ is committed to expanding its nuclear power generation fleet and development plans are progressing without delays, the company's new chairman and chief executive said in a newspaper interview yesterday...

19 Sept (NucNet): German engineering group Siemens has abandoned plans to make nuclear generating equipment with Russia’s Rosatom in light of the German government’s decision to phase out nuclear energy after the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan, the...

16 Sept (NucNet): South Africa’s energy minister Dipuo Peters has signed off on a proposal for up to six new nuclear reactor units and plans to present it to the country’s Parliament soon.

15 Sept (NucNet): All eight of Spain’s commercially operational nuclear units have passed stress tests conducted at the request of the European Union following the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan earlier this year, Spanish nuclear regulatory authority...

15 Sept (NucNet): Radioactive material at Dounreay in Scotland arising from the reprocessing of spent fuel for a research reactor at Mol in Belgium is to be returned, with transport by sea beginning this autumn.

Representatives from the 151 member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will meet at the Vienna International Centre (VIC) on Monday, 19 September, for the five-day IAEA annual General Conference to discuss major topics on the organization’s...

13 Sept (NucNet): Iran’s 915 megawatt (MW) Bushehr-1 pressurised water nuclear reactor unit was formally inaugurated yesterday and is generating electricity at up to 40 percent of its capacity, the country’s official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA...

12 Sept (NucNet): The French nuclear safety authority (Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire; ASN) says one person has died and four have been injured, one seriously, after an explosion today at the Marcoule nuclear site in southern France.

Nuclear safety experts concluded a seven-day mission to review the German Regulatory System, conducted from 4-10 September in Bonn, Stuttgart and Berlin.

9 Sep (NucNet): The accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan in March this year seems to have had no impact on the UK public's confidence in nuclear power, according to a poll.

8 Sept (NucNet): A new London-based lobbying organisation aimed at promoting nuclear technologies fuelled by thorium is calling for the UK's Sellafield site to be used as a research centre into next-generation reactors.

The IAEA Board of Governors will convene a meeting at the Agency’s headquarters starting at 10:30 CET on Monday, 12 September, in Boardroom A of the M-Building, in the Vienna International Centre (VIC).

6 Sept (NucNet): The US-based Shaw Group has confirmed plans to sell its 20 percent stake in Westinghouse Electric Company back to reactor manufacturer Toshiba Corporation, removing 1.7 billion US dollars (USD) (1.2 billion euro) in debt from its balance...

5 Sept (NucNet): Iran’s 915 megawatt (MW) Bushehr-1 nuclear reactor unit has been connected to the grid, the country’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said yesterday (Sunday).

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is to host a forum among its Member States to consider how the experience of Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zones (NWFZ) in several regions of the world could be relevant to the Middle East.