Members of the European Parliament's budget committee on Monday night voted to cut planned funding for the ITER experimental nuclear fusion project in 2011, the Green group in the European Parliament said Tuesday. The budget committee adopted an amendment to cut the ITER budget by Eur 57 million to Eur304.76 million ($419.77 million) in 2011 in a revision to the EU's research budget.
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MEPs vote to cut 2011 spending on ITER nuclear fusion project
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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EU diverts cash for nuclear fusion demo project
Thursday, July 22, 2010BRUSSELS, July 20 (Reuters) - Cash-strapped European Union governments will not have to provide fresh money in order to fill a 1.4 billion euro ($1.81 billion) funding gap in a project to commercialise nuclear fusion -- the process that powers the sun.
Increased complexity and rising construction costs have seen the price tag for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project rise to 16 billion euros ($20.76 billion), while the EU's share has more than doubled.
£1bn funding shortfall jeopardises hopes of producing cheap, non-polluting power
Monday, June 7, 2010A £15bn international bid to harness the fusion process that powers the Sun is facing a major funding crisis. Scientists have revealed that the cost of the International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor (Iter) has trebled from its original £5bn price tag in the past three years. At the same time, financial crises have beset all the nations involved in the project.
Interest in reactor cools as construction costs soar
Thursday, February 4, 2010Member states want a change in timetable but other investors oppose any delay to project.
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Failure in fissile material accountability |
On 6 October 2009, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) notified ASN of an incident occurred at the nuclear facility dealing with Plutonium technology and so-called “Atelier de Technologie du Plutonium” ATPu located in the CEA Cadarache plant. The ATPu, a facility currently being dismantled, is operated by AREVA NC and the license holder of this facility is the CEA.
The CEA informed ASN that the amount of plutonium deposits in the facility glove boxes was underestimated.
India's DAE to take 3% stake in France's Jules Horowitz project
Monday, January 28, 2008London (Platts)--28Jan2008
India's DAE will take a 3% stake in France's Jules Horowitz reactor project under a scientific cooperation agreement signed January 25 in New Delhi. The agreement was signed by Anil Kakodkar, head of the Department of Atomic Energy, and by Alain Bugat, chairman of the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, which is responsible for the project to build a 100-MW (thermal) materials test reactor at the Cadarache site in southern France.
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Operation outside limits and conditions at a former MOX facility |
On 6th November 2006, at the Cadarache MOX fuel processing former facility ATPu, after a maintenance outage, a double-load of nuclear material has been detected during the preparation of a grinding operation of waste nuclear material from an ancient industrial activity. The analysis demonstrated it was the result of an unrecorded material loading. Indeed, a set of non-approved procedures was used to compensate for a long lasting weight measurement failure.
US plutonium reaches French plant
Friday, October 8, 2004A controversial shipment of US weapons-grade plutonium has reached a processing plant in southern France.
Several dozen anti-nuclear protesters met the convoy on arrival at the plant in Cadarache. They said the plutonium was vulnerable to terrorist attack.
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ACCIDENT CLOSE TO THE FORMER RAPSODIE REACTOR AT THE CADARACHE SITE |
On 31. March 1994 towards 5:45 pm an explosion took place in rooms adjoining the former Rapsodie reactor.
The shock wave which followed the explosion caused a 300 sqm concrete slab to fall, destroying the circular adit located nearby. The dead body of a worker was discovered under the slab towards 10:30 p.m.. Four workers were rushed to the Manosque and Aix hospitals with multiple fractures.
This explosion was probably due to the hydrogen released following treatment of the slightly contaminated sodium with alcohol.
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OVERFLOW OF A LIQUID EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK |
On the 21st of June, the operator noted an abonrmal continuous in-flow of water, from an eyewash located in the laboratory and connected to the tank. This had continued throughout the weekend.
Investigations undertaken showed that the tank overfill detection device had failed.
The tank overflowed into a barrel of insufficient capacity.
Its overfill alarm also failed to operate.
