The representatives of the 16 EU countries that have opted for nuclear energy have identified the four 'pillars' on which the EU's energy policy must be built: safety of sourcing, consumer purchasing power, industrial competitiveness and the fight against global warming.
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Am-241 source melting |
An orphan Am-241 source inadvertently included in scrap metal was melted on the //23/2/2012 // in a Finnish steel factory in Tornio. The first alarm of abnormal radiation level was given by detectors screening the slag pots. The activity of melted source can not be determined exactly, but it is estimated to fall in to Category 4 (0,6 – 60 GBq). The source is traced by the operator to stainless steel scrap delivered from Central Europe.
Due to its physical properties most of the Am-241 activity is partitioned in to the slag phase (aprox 99%) and dust phase (1%).
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France's Areva to announce big losses-minister
Sunday, December 11, 2011Dec 11 (Reuters) - French nuclear reactor maker Areva will announce large losses on Tuesday when the group unveils its strategy, French Industry Minister Eric Besson said on Sunday.
"I can confirm that Areva will announce losses," Besson told Radio J. "In all likelihood, they will be big."
Olkiluoto 3 nuke plant may be delayed further -TVO
Sunday, October 16, 2011HELSINKI/PARIS, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Finnish utility firm Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) blamed supplier Areva for further delays to the construction of its Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant which may further push back operations to 2014.
The 1,600 megawatt plant Olkiluoto 3, Finland's fifth nuclear reactor, was originally scheduled to start operations in 2009 but delays and soaring costs meant TVO revised its start date to 2013.
Polish workers at Olkiluoto earning slave wages
Sunday, October 16, 2011Evidence has come to light suggesting that cheap labour is being employed at the construction site of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant on the Finnish west coast. At worst, some Polish workers are paid less than two euros an hour.
A Polish electrician who wishes to remain anonymous told YLE that the dearth of jobs in his home country drove him to seek work at Olkiluoto. The man says it took him some time to realise he was being short-changed.
Posiva: No room for Fennovoima waste in nuclear cave
Wednesday, October 5, 2011The project director of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant, Posiva President Reijo Sundell, insists there is no space for waste from utilities other than TVO or Fortum in the Onkalo underground disposal site on Finland's west coast.
Onkalo (or ‘cave’) is being dug into the bedrock near the Olkiluoto power station by Posiva, which is 60 percent owned by TVO and 40 percent by Fortum. The latter utility owns two commercial reactors in Loviisa on the south-east coast, and has applied to build a third. TVO has two operating reactors on Olkiluoto, an island in the municipality of Eurajoki, on the west coast between Rauma and Pori.
Finland – land of uranium
Tuesday, January 18, 2011The Decision-in-Principle (DiP) in 2002 to build a fifth nuclear power plant made Finland the center of attention when the nuclear power industry began to see its chances. Finland is the first country to have made a decision on final storage of nuclear waste. Finland is also the only Nordic country in which energy consumption is rising.
Russia proposes “electricity pipeline” to Germany
Wednesday, December 8, 2010Russia is proposing to build a high-voltage electricity cable from Kaliningrad to Germany across the Baltic Sea to export power produced from a newly to be built nuclear power plant. The cable would be laid alongside the last part of the gas pipeline Nordstream that Gazprom is building together with western partners and that will be used to transport gas direct from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea. The electricity cable would similarly bypass third countries, in this case Poland. A representative from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs says he does not expect Germany to be willing to acquiesce to the plan. ‘I cannot imagine that the German public will want to import nuclear power (“Atomstrom”) from Russia’, he says.
Europe eyes deep disposal for nuclear waste problem
Thursday, October 28, 2010A leaked European Commission draft report says Europe should solve the problem of handling nuclear waste by making industry pay to stash it deep underground, where it will be overseen by independent watchdogs.
"The current situation of spent fuel and radioactive waste management in EU member states is not satisfactory," says the draft, seen by Reuters Thursday.
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Radiography overexposure |
On September 16, 2010 the radiation safety officer of a licensed industrial radiography company notified the Regulatory Authority of an overexposure of a gammaradiography worker. The worker was exposed by a 0.4 TBq (11 Ci) cobalt-60 source, with the dose exceeding the annual dose limit 50 mSv for radiation workers. The incident occurred when the radiographer entered the bunker without retracting radiation source to its shielded position. The worker spent about 4 minutes in the bunker while replacing the radiography film.
