China appears to be edging ahead in the international contest to build a new nuclear power station on Turkey’s Black Sea coast – a sign of how the ambitions of its nuclear companies are poised to reshape the global nuclear industry.
Beijing is not looking for government guarantees for the project and can supply its own financing, according to an Ankara official, pointing to China’s advantage in the race to build the reactor for Turkey.
Bulgarian Parliament Chair Tsacheva has made promising hints about the fate of the Belene nuclear power plant. Photo by BGNES
Bulgarian will for sure build its second nuclear power plant at Belene, Parliament Chair Tsetska Tsacheva has declared.
ALMATY. Nov 6 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan's national nuclear corporation, Kazatomprom, will be involved in the construction of new nuclear power plants in China, Kazatomprom chief Mukhtar Dzhakishev told a press conference.
"Kazatomprom is embarking on a new line of business, which is helping to build nuclear power plants - in this case in China," Dzhakishev said.
BEIJING, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Three Chinese tourists have bought a 274-kg (604-lb) piece of depleted uranium and brought it home from Kyrgyzstan as a souvenir, the China Daily newspaper reported Monday.
The three tourists from the city of Aksu in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region bought "the glittering treasure" for $2,000 at a flea market in Kyrgyzstan, hoping to make money by reselling it in China.
MOSCOW (Thomson Financial) - Russia and China will inaugurate an atomic power station in Jiangsu province on December 20, as Moscow steps up construction of such stations worldwide, a top Russian official has said.
The head of Russian atomic power station contractor Atomstroiexport, Sergei Shmatko, told journalists Russia was shaking off the stigma attached to its nuclear industry after the Soviet-era Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 and was in talks with European and Asian countries.
December 04, 2007: 05:55 AM EST
PARIS, Dec. 4, 2007 (Thomson Financial) -- French anti-nuclear group Sortir du Nucleaire said it has mounted a legal challenge to the construction of EDF's Flamanville nuclear reactor and hopes to get work stopped.
EDF said the construction of the 1,650 megawatts EPR European pressurised water reactor, to be supplied by Areva, has started following ground preparation at the site.
By Isabel Gorst in Almaty
Kazakhstan has agreed to share its uranium resources with China in exchange for equity in Chinese nuclear power facilities in a strategic deal that brings together the world's fastest growing uranium and nuclear electricity producers.
Moukhtar Dzhakishev, the president of Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan's state-owned nuclear power company, said: "We will swap shares in uranium production for shares in Chinese atomic facilities... This is the first time China has allowed any foreign company to become a shareholder in its atomic power industry enterprises."
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A worker was injured by an overexposure of Iridium-192 lost source from a gamma radiograph |
A young worker, Mr Song who is not a radiation worker, was injured by an overexposure of an Ir-192 source lost from a gamma radiograph in the Construction Site for 300 kt Polyethylene Project of Jihua.
The Ir-192 source slipped out from the container of the gamma radiograph and dropped on the ground of the site when the container was carried and moved. Because the key to the safe lock of the container broken, the shutter cannot be locked.
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Two occupational workers were injured by exposure of electron accelerator |
Two occupational workers, Mr. Qiao and Wang were injured by exposure of high frequency-high voltage electron accelerator during its commission in Tianjin electrical wire factory. The energy of the accelerator is 2.5 MeV. Its cooling water tank under Ti window was needed to change cooling water pipe. On 21 November 1995, while the accelerator has high voltage, but no electron beam was provided, five workers entered the irradiation hall to change cooling water pipe for 7-8 minutes. They did not wear personal dosimeter. Two of them were exposed by electron beam which caused skin burns.
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TURBINE TRIP AND REACTOR SCRAM DUE TO TO AG WATER LEVEL HIGH-HIGH |
The unit was in stable operation with a load of 290 MWe on December 15, 1995. Because some tubes of no. 3 high pressure heater leaked seriously, at 10:18 a.m. control room operator isolated the leaking no. 3 high pressure heater. The Main feedwater automatic regulation could not meet the requirement of water level control of SG and then manual control failed, which led to turbine trip and reactor scram because of "SG water level high-high" at 10:26:50 a.m.
