On 6 August 2002, Jewometaal alarmed the Inspectorate, that they had a radiation alarm of their portal detector. Using handheld survey equipment they measured a dose rate at the surface of a 40" container of 8 microSieverts per hour. Two officers of the Inspectorate went to the scrapyard to investigate the container. With a portabale gamma spectrometer they concluded that the radation source in the container was no gamma source but presumably a bèta source. They expected it to be a strontium-90 source. Three days later the container was unloaded by a firm specialised in tracing radioactive sources in scrap, supervised by an officer of the Inspectorate. In the container the firm found 9 identical stainless steel source holders with in each source holder a strontium-90 source. The sources were taken to a radiological facility and examined there. The source holders beared no identification marks. Each source holder weighs approximately 1.4 kgs and measures 12 cm long and 9 cm wide (see figures 1 - 4 in related documents). The doserate at the surface of the source holders varies from 16 to 31 microSieverts per hour. Inside every source holder a source capsule was present. Such a capsule is cylindrical in shape and attached to a 12 mm hexagonal metal piece with a threaded end (see figure 5 in related documents). The capsules bear no identification marks. The activities of the 9 sources vary from 71 to 138 MBq. The scrapload was shipped by Inna Grikis, Yerevan, Armenia. The container was shipped in Poti, Georgia and transported by MS Philipp. The container arrived in Rotterdam by MS Sofia. Since the source holders were all but one found in one metal drum (see figure 6), it seemed that these source holders were put there on purpose.
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.
Yesterday, the ANVS, the Dutch nuclear supervisor, authorized the transport of up to six shipments of fissile enriched uranium from Russia to Urenco in Almelo. This is remarkable because after the Russian invasion, almost two years ago, the uranium-enriching state-owned company in Almelo claimed to be "very concerned" about developments in Ukraine and therefore "stopped […]
[The Guardian]: "As nuclear plant is hit by further delay, real cost will be far higher after inflation is included, as project uses 2015 prices. The owner of Hinkley Point C has blamed inflation, Covid and Brexit as it announced the nuclear power plant project could be delayed by a further four years, and cost […]
From WNN: In 2022, 13 EU countries with nuclear electricity production generated 609,255 GWh of nuclear electricity - down 16.7% compared with 2021, according to figures released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. It noted this is the lowest level registered in the period from 1990, the first year for which comparable […]