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9 May (NucNet): Nuclear power appears to be the most cost-effective of the low-carbon energy technologies and should form part of the UK’s mix assuming safety concerns can be addressed, a new report on renewable energy from government advisors has said...

6 May (NucNet): Safety levels at Switzerland’s four nuclear power plants remain high, although a potential weakness at some units is the protection of spent fuel pools inside the reactor buildings, the country’s Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI...

5 May (NucNet): Amazon.com founder and chief executive officer Jeff Bezos has joined a group investing 19.5 million US dollars (13.3 million euro) in a Canadian start-up company working on nuclear fusion. ...read more

7 Apr (NucNet): The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) has launched a cross-border radiation protection and research project for the Arctic regions of Finland, Russia and Norway following a meeting held on 6 and 7 April 2007 in Finland...

19 Mar (NucNet): The government’s chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano said in a statement today (Saturday) that radiation exceeding the government-set radiation level was detected in sampled milk in Fukushima Prefecture and in six samples of spinach in...

17 Mar (NucNet): A Japanese government ministry has released radiation data from more than 50 monitoring posts (MPs) around the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan that show transient high readings of up to 80 microsieverts per hour (microSv...

17 Mar (NucNet): Japanese authorities have started using helicopters to drop water onto the spent fuel pools at Fukushima-Daiichi units 3 and 4 in an effort to counter the “immediate threat” of damage to the fuel, the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF...

16 Mar (NucNet): Figures from a radiation monitoring post near the main gate of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant show the latest reading was 1,900 microsieverts per hour (microSv/hr) at 11:20 Japan time (03:20 central European time; CET) and...

16 Mar (NucNet): Small fires have broken out inside the reactor building at unit 4 of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, where damaged fuel in the spent fuel pool is leading to the uncontrolled release of radioactive substances. ...read...

15 Mar (NucNet): The European Commission today called for every nuclear power plant in European Union member states to undergo a “stress test” of their safety and emergency preparedness in light of the events at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant in Japan. ...

15 Mar (NucNet): The European Commission will today ask industry and regulatory heads to provide information on safety and emergency preparedness at European nuclear power plants during a meeting in Brussels, Belgium. ...read more

15 Mar (NucNet): The Japanese authorities have said the level of radioactivity has been decreasing at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant site. ...read more

13 Mar (NucNet): Japanese authorities have told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that operator Tohoku Electric Power Company has declared the first and lowest state of emergency at the Onagawa nuclear power plant. ...read more

21 Jan (NucNet): India’s 20th nuclear reactor unit, Kaiga-4, was synchronised to the electrical grid for the first time on 19 January 2011, Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) said in a statement. ...read more

24 Dec (NucNet): The NucNet network continues to operate as normal throughout the holiday season, including Christmas Day and Boxing Day. ...read more

20 Jul (NucNet): A former US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) chairman, Dale Klein, has joined the board of directors of the Southern Company. ...read more

1 Jul (NucNet): Finland’s parliament today voted in favour of building two new units and constructing an extended spent fuel repository in Eurajoki municipality. Full NucNet report to be published shortly. ...read more

22 Apr (NucNet): Westinghouse-produced nuclear fuel has been loaded into a nuclear reactor unit in Ukraine, marking what the US called “a milestone” in the Ukraine Nuclear Fuel Qualification Programme, a US-Ukraine initiative to help Ukraine to diversify...

22 Mar (NucNet): Yemen is preparing the “pre-requisites” for a nuclear energy programme that it needs to “survive and prosper”, a Middle East nuclear conference* was told today. ...read more

11 Feb (NucNet): The annual PIME meeting for nuclear communications professionals begins in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday with three days of plenary sessions including a special showcase with presentations on recent communications developments. ...read...

5 Feb (NucNet): France’s nuclear safety authority (Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire, ASN) and Institute of Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) have launched a public internet site showing the life measurements of radioactivity. ...read more

2 Feb (NucNet): The Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG; www.nrg.eu) of the Netherlands has extended the preparatory phase for the planned new Pallas European research reactor to replace the High Flux Reactor (HFR) at Petten and now says it will...

29 Dec (NucNet): South Korea has won a 40 billion US dollar (USD) (about 27 billion euro) order to build four nuclear reactor units in the United Arab Emirates. ...read more

29 Dec (NucNet): The Swiss government has approved unlimited operational licences for two nuclear installations. ...read more

21 Dec (NucNet): Chinese vice-premier Li Keqiang and visiting French prime minister Francois Fillon today attended a ceremony marking the official start of construction of the Taishan nuclear power plant in China’s Guangdong province. ...read more