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28 Oct (NucNet): The “alert” at the Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania ended yesterday after plant operator PPL Susquehanna confirmed that oxygen levels returned to normal in a pump room related to unit 2 and plant workers shut off the flow of nitrogen that was being used to support maintenance work on water piping in the room.
24 Oct (NucNet): Areva and US defence group Northrop Grumman have joined forces to build a new manufacturing and engineering facility in the US state of Virginia to supply the growing American nuclear energy sector.
24 Oct (NucNet): The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is carrying out a special investigation at the Salem-1 nuclear unit in the state of New Jersey to discover the circumstances surrounding an apparent loss of reactor coolant system inventory control.
22 Oct (NucNet): A routine annual refueling and inspection outage at the Oskarshamn-3 boiling water reactor (BWR) unit in Sweden is being extended after problems were discovered with a control rod.
IAEA Chief Renews Call For Global Energy Body
21 Oct (NucNet): The proposed creation of an “all-embracing international energy organisation” has been raised during a meeting of finance ministers of the group of Commonwealth countries by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Construction Consortium Publishes Update On Olkiluoto-3
20 Oct (NucNet): The Areva-Siemens consortium constructing the Olkiluoto-3
European pressurised water reactor (EPR) unit in Finland said that
confronted with construction delays, it succeeded in convincing utility
Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) that a number of measures were required
to “accelerate and improve” the programme.
17 Oct (NucNet): Civil construction works at the Olkiluoto-3 nuclear unit in Finland will take several months longer than expected, resulting in a possible delay to the startup of the unit until 2012, Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) said today.
17 Oct (NucNet): The UK’s energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband yesterday committed the UK to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent on 1990 levels by 2050 as a major contribution to a global deal on climate change.
Nuclear More Reliable For Energy Than Oil Or Gas’, Says New NEA Publication
16 Oct (NucNet): The security of energy supply from nuclear power is more reliable than that for oil or gas, according to the authors of the first ‘Nuclear Energy Outlook’ launched today by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA).
15 Oct (NucNet): The Petten high-flux research reactor (HFR) in the Netherlands is scheduled to restart on 16 February 2009, the Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group (NRG) said yesterday.
13 Oct (NucNet): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Organisation today signed an agreement that will enhance research into nuclear fusion.
13 Oct (NucNet): Hungary has reached a milestone in its radioactive waste management programme by completing the first stage of the Bataapati National Radioactive Waste Repository, 180 kilometres southwest of Budapest.
India Expects Increased Nuclear Commerce With EU, Says
PM Singh
10 Oct (NucNet): India expects to agree on nuclear cooperation with
additional EU “partners” after signing a bilateral agreement
on civil nuclear commerce with France, prime minister Manmohan Singh
has said.
Fennovoima Oy Submits EIA Report For Possible Finland N-Plant
9 Oct (NucNet): Fennovoima Oy today submitted its environmental impact assessment (EIA) report to Finland’s Ministry for Employment and the Economy for a possible new nuclear plant.
9 Oct (NucNet): US president George Bush yesterday signed into law the US-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, giving approval for US companies such to sell nuclear fuel and technology to India for the first time in three decades.
8 Oct (NucNet): France and China could jointly work on nuclear power plant projects worldwide under the terms of an agreement between Areva and the China Guandong Nuclear Power Company (CGNPC).
7 Oct (NucNet): The UK government's advisory body on climate change said today that a cut in domestic greenhouse gas emissions of at least 80 percent was needed by 2050 and should include the aviation and shipping sectors.
7 Oct (NucNet): A combined licence application (COL) to build two reactor units in Levy County, Florida, has been formally accepted for review, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said yesterday.
7 Oct (NucNet): An exploration licence for uranium deposits near Alice Springs in Australia has been granted to a joint venture of Cameco Australia, a subsidiary of Canada’s Cameco Corporation, and Paladin Energy.
7 Oct (NucNet): The decommissioning support fund for Lithuania’s Ignalina nuclear power plant is co-financing the construction of a power interconnection between the country and Poland, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has confirmed.
6 Apr (NucNet): British prime minister Gordon brown has announced the creation of a new Department of Energy and Climate Change saying he wanted to “to reconstruct the way we govern” so new challenges can be met in a new way.
6 Oct (NucNet): Japan and France is forming a working group of experts to study issues related to the transport of nuclear material worldwide.
Jordan Signs Uranium Exploration Agreement With Areva
3 Oct (NucNet): France’s Areva group has signed a uranium mining exploration agreement with Jordan.
3 Oct (NucNet): Bipartisan proposed legislation that would authorise the use of thorium in US commercial nuclear power plants has been introduced in the Senate
