On May 2, 2005, the State of Texas Department of State Health Services received notification from a radiography licensee indicating that a radiographer may have received a whole body dose of 46.6 millisievert (mSv) or 4.6 rem during the period of March 20, 2005 through April 19, 2005. Based on previous dosimetry results, the individual’s annual cumulative dose is 63.95 mSv (6.4 rem), a dose in excess of the NRC’s annual occupational total effective dose equivalent limit of 50 mSv (5 rem).
The State of Texas is investigating the apparent overexposure, and the employee has been removed from working with radioactive material.
From the IPFM: During a visit to the Civaux nuclear power plant on 18 March 2024, France's Minister of the Armed Forces unveiled a plan to use the plant to produce tritium for the French nuclear weapons program. Civaux is a civilian power plant that belongs to and is operated by Electricité de France. According […]
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.