In Sweden, declining electricity prices and low demand is having a serious impact on the bottom line for operators of nuclear power plants. Vattenfall, the Swedish state-owned utility, announced that it plans to close down two reactors at the Ringhals nuclear power plant earlier than previously planned due to increasing costs and decreasing profits.[i] “Unfortunately, […]
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is focusing on reducing the amount of radioactive waste generated at the Pickering nuclear power plant, one of the world’s largest nuclear generation facilities, located on the shores of Lake Ontario. The Pickering Nuclear site is home to 8 CANDU nuclear reactors. OPG has created special programs meant to minimize low-level […]
On Tuesday a supervisor at the Watts Bar nuclear power plant in Tennessee failed a random fitness for duty test after confirming positive for alcohol. The licensee terminated the employee’s access to the site. Source: NRC Event Notifications
On Thursday, April 23rd, around 3:32 pm an employee supervisor confirmed positive after a follow-up fitness for duty test. The licensee denied the employees access to the facility. Fitness for duty tests are administered either randomly, in a lottery-style system where “winners” get to report to the medical office for testing, or for-cause, which are […]
After spending more than a year offline, the only chemical separation facility operating in the United States is restarting spent fuel dissolution work. At the L Area Complex in the Savannah River Site (SRS), high and low enriched spent nuclear fuel is stored in underwater storage facilities called disassembly basins. In 1998, Savannah River opted […]
An employee supervisor at the Summer nuclear power plant in South Carolina has been found of willfully acting to avoid a fitness for duty test. The employee was working on Wednesday when they were notified to report to the fitness for duty office to submit to a random fitness for duty test. Instead of reporting […]
The French Government has recommended that AREVA should sell its nuclear reactors to Electricite de France, a power utility who operates nuclear reactors in France which is also majority-state owned.[i] The nuclear industry in France has been struggling to deal with bad investment decisions and an international retreat on nuclear power after the Fukushima Daiichi […]