October, 2011

Senior nuclear regulators today concluded a Workshop on the Lessons Learned from the IAEA Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) Missions.

27 Oct (NucNet): After 44 years of operation Oldbury nuclear power plant will stop generating electricity in February 2012, operator Magnox Ltd announced.

26 Oct (NucNet): Russia is likely to join the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), following an official announcement from the Paris-based organisation that it has applied for membership.

25 Oct (NucNet): Demand for Russian nuclear power plants has remained strong despite the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in March 2011 and Russia is now looking to strengthen its international presence further, the head of Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy...

24 Oct (NucNet): Modernisation of the Dukovany nuclear power plant remains a priority for the Czech Republic, with the possibility of additional units being built at the site around 2030, the chairman and chief executive officer of utility CEZ Daniel...

23 Oct (NucNet): A fire in the turbine of the Oskarshamn-2 nuclear reactor unit in Sweden has been extinguished by the plant’s onsite fire brigade with no danger to public or environment, operator OKG confirmed today.

19 Oct (NucNet): Experts have suggested 30 alternative uses of the Yucca Mountain deep geological repository site in the US, but they all face a number of legal and administrative challenges, a report says.

17 Oct (NucNet): The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has asked the UAE Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) to approve additional preparatory construction work for the UAE’s first nuclear power plant at Braka.

14 Oct (NucNet): Nuclear energy should still play a part in the UK’s electricity generation, but government and the nuclear industry must show they have learned from their past mistakes, energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne said in a speech...

20 October 2011 | Vienna, Austria — Today the European Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) celebrate 30 years of cooperation in the safeguarding of nuclear materials and facilities. This anniversary is marked by an...

12 Oct (NucNet): Commercial operation of the Olkiluoto-3 nuclear unit in Finland could now be delayed one year until 2014, operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) said today.

The International Atomic Energy Agency and the European Commission will celebrate 30 years of cooperation on the control of nuclear materials in a ceremony on Thursday, 13 October at the IAEA headquarters in the Vienna International Center (VIC).

7 Oct (NucNet): Posiva of Finland and SKB, a Sweden-based nuclear waste management company, have signed a three-year cooperation contract related to the research and development of the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel.

6 Oct (NucNet): Finnish nuclear power consortium Fennovoima is to build a reactor in Pyhajoki, northern Finland – the first announcement of a new site anywhere in the world since the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant in Japan.

An IAEA safeguards inspector was involved in a contamination incident yesterday afternoon at the Belgoprocess nuclear waste processing facility in Dessel, Belgium.

5 Oct (NucNet): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will send a mission to Japan to help the country in its planning to remediate areas around the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011...

An international team of senior nuclear safety experts today concluded a 10-day mission to review the regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety in Slovenia.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will dispatch an international expert mission to Japan to assist the country in its planning to remediate the areas off-site from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

3 Oct (NucNet): Six months after the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan, solid majorities of Americans still view nuclear energy favourably and support the extension of operating licences at existing facilities that meet safety standards, a survey shows...