Georgia Power Vogtle Project Construction Costs $42 Million Over Budget
Construction costs for Georgia Power’s planned expansion project at Plant Vogtle are $42 million over budget, and delays in getting federal approval to build the two reactors may push back the construction schedule…
Ethiopia Announces Construction of 6 Wind Power Projects and 1 Geothermal Plant
The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO) is set to start construction of six wind power projects and one Geo Thermal Power Plant with a capacity of generating 1,015 Mega Watts (MW) power in…
11 workers fired from Pickering nuclear plant for potential conduct violations
Eleven employees of Ontario Power Generation’s Pickering nuclear plant have been fired for alleged violations of the company’s code of conduct. The nature of the alleged offences wasn’t disclosed. “It wasn’t a safety…
French President Sarkozy’s Emotional Claims About Nuclear Industry
France’s opposition Socialists and Greens last week agreed a deal to jointly campaign for France to reduce its reliance on nuclear energy from more than 75 percent to 50 percent by shutting 24…
Hungarian Plant responsible for released I-131: 634,000,000,000 bq
A Hungarian laboratory is the most likely source of the outbreak of a radioactive particle recently detected in the atmosphere above parts of Europe, the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported….
River near Fukushima Daiichi found contaminated with over 50 billion bq of Cesium a day
A joint study by Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba, among other entities, estimated that water at the mouth of the Abukumagawa river running through the prefecture was contaminated with cesium levels…
Dounreay begins construction of underground solid waste vaults
Work to construct a series of underground concrete vaults to hold solid low-level waste (LLW) from the decommissioned experimental fast reactors at Dounreay is expected to cost over $150 million USD. Plans include…
TEPCO Says Not Responsible for Decontamination
During court proceedings concerning a radioactive golf course, Tokyo Electric Power Co. stunned lawyers by saying the utility was not responsible for decontamination because it no longer “owned” the radioactive substances. TEPCO’s argument…
NRC Issues White Finding for Plymouth Power Plant
PLYMOUTH — The Pilgrim nuclear power plant will be required to face another Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspection now that the agency has finished its evaluation of the plant’s accidental shutdown in May. The…
Rep Kucinich disputes FirstEnergy’s “hairline crack” theory – calls for public hearing
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Cleveland) asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday to hold a public hearing on the cracks in the concrete containment building at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant 10 miles west of Port…
Nuclear Engineer shares concerns about Brunswick Nuclear Leak
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission will begin a special inspection at Progress Energy’s Brunswick-2 unit in North Carolina after the utility said Friday the reactor pressure vessel’s lid was not adequately tightened when…
NASA – Mars – Nuclear Reactors? – Plutonium Powered Assistance in space since the 1960s
If you’ve seen the next Mar’s rover, named Curiosity (part of the Mars Science Laboratory–or MSLas it’s called for short), you’ve probably noticed that it’s does not have solar panels, and that’s because…
India faced by mounting opposition to lack of liability for nuclear damages
Following the catastrophic tragedy that struck Japan in the aftermath of the earthquake and Tsunami on March 11 last, the leaders of five NGOs working for the survivors of the December 1984 Bhopal…
2 Leaks at Brunswick Nuclear Power Station – Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Not Fully Tensioned
According to Progress Energy, early Wednesday morning the plant reported an unusual plant event to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Environmentalist Tom Clements with Friends of the Earth, tracks nuclear issues primarily in South…
Message by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the 2011 Fukushima Conference
Message by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on the Occasion of the Fukushima Conference 2011 November 11, 2011 [Provisional Translation] Without the revival of Fukushima Prefecture there will be no restoration of trust and…
North Anna Unit 3 Permit – EQ Reveals Major Design Deficiency that has Safety Implications
Power Reactor Event Number: 47446 Facility: NORTH ANNA Region: 2 State: VA Unit: [3] [ ] [ ] RX Type: (3) M-4-LP, (4) M-4-LP NRC Notified By: JOSEPH HEGNER HQ OPS Officer: HOWIE CROUCH Notification Date:…
2012 Elections have nuclear impact in France – Party proposes closing 24 of 58 reactors by 2025
In an electoral pact with the Green party, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, France’s Socialists have agreed to phase out a large chunk of the country’s nuclear capacity and guarantee the Greens seats in the…
Despite lack of NRC approval, work goes on at Vogtle
Day by day, there’s a little more progress on two new units at Plant Vogtle. Units 3 and 4 are expected to be completed around 2016 and 2017, but none of that can…
Water leak at Davis-Besse cause of fire affecting safety-related equipment
Power Reactor Event Number: 47443 Facility: DAVIS-BESSE Region: 3 State: OH Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] B&W-R-LP NRC Notified By: TOM COBBLEDICK HQ OPS Officer: JOHN KNOKE Notification Date: 11/16/2011 Notification Time:…
Nuclear abolition and the whole nuclear chain
Nuclear abolition and the whole nuclear chain Andreas Nidecker IPPNW (Internatl. Physicians for Prev. Of Nuclear War) ICAN (Internatl. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) Nuclear Energy (NE) Civil use of NE in many…
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