On January 12, 1994 at 10 a.m. during a routine surveillance walkdown a radiation monitoring operator detected increased background gamma radiation of 0.0015 mSv/h at the entrance of auxiliary building C-117. Due to leaktightness failure of isolating valves the radioactive medium with specific activity of 1.85-10E6 Bq/l got released from the primary bypass purification system pipeline into the low pressure compressed air system and from the latter into building C-117 in dropwise form. There was no contamination off-site or personnel exposure.
An analysis by the Norwegian NGO Bellona of transborder trade operations with the customs code 840130 (irradiated fuel assemblies or fuel elements) show a more than twofold increase of import to EU countries of fresh nuclear fuel in cash terms – from 280 million Euros in 2022 to 686 million Euros in 2023. In physical […]
The French government has said it is "seriously" studying the option of building a plant to convert and enrich reprocessed uranium to cut its reliance on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. The only plant in the world that currently converts reprocessed uranium for use in nuclear power plants is in Russia. "The option of […]
Jan vd Putte quickly changed from dressing as the pied piper at the protest during the IAEA nuclear power conference to warn for the Russian nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom and its role in Ukraine.
Anke Herold, Executive Director Oeko-Institut, Freiburg (Germany), in Brussels about the claim to triple nuclear by 2050: IPCC scenarios vs forecast development of nuclear.