Tag Archives: Safety

Armenia’s nuclear power plant is dangerous. Time to close it. via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2021/03/08 by nfield

By Brenda Shaffer | March 5, 2021 In late 2020, the Armenian government announced that its Metsamor nuclear power plant would close for five months in 2021 to attempt significant upgrades. Soon after, the EU urged Armenia to make the closure permanent … Continue reading →

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France extends lifetime of its oldest nuclear reactors via Star Tribune

Posted on 2021/02/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By SYLVIE CORBET  PARIS — France’s nuclear safety authority agreed Thursday to extend the operational lifetime of the country’s 32 oldest nuclear reactors by a decade to as much as 50 years. The public electricity company that operates the nuclear … Continue reading →

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‘Problems around Akkuyu NPP is so dire that, even the supporters of nuclear energy must object’ via YEŞİL GAZETE

Posted on 2021/01/26 by nfield

‘If Such accidents occur during the construction phase of nuclear facilities that require maximum safety, it means that risks of Akkuyu Project is beyond general nuclear risks . When we see that facts are hidden from public it is obvious … Continue reading →

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Rosatom Will Build SMR Project in Republic of Sakha via Power

Posted on 2020/12/29 by nfield

Russia’s state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom has signed an agreement confirming its participation in construction of a small modular nuclear reactor project in the Russian Republic of Sakha. […] Development of the SMR project comes after Rosatom and officials from … Continue reading →

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Annual High Tide Spurs Concerns About Future Safety of San Onofre Nuclear Waste Stock Near South OC via Voice of OC

Posted on 2020/11/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By BRANDON PHO Ocean waves that grow especially tall a few times during the year, rumbling against the California coast and offering a glimpse into future sea level rise and a reshaping shoreline, according to state coastal regulators. Those tides rolled up … Continue reading →

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Japan left with only one nuclear reactor working due to shutdown via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2020/11/04 by nfield

Japan will have to limp by on just one nuclear reactor for the next six weeks after Kansai Electric Power Co. shut down the No. 4 reactor at its Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, western Japan, for regular maintenance on Nov. … Continue reading →

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Trump Admin to Give $1.4 Billion to Try to Revive the Nuclear Power Industry via Truthout

Posted on 2020/10/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY Peter Montague The nuclear power industry may be getting a new lease on life, thanks to a $1.4 billion taxpayer subsidy from the Trump administration. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in August approved the design of a new kind of nuclear … Continue reading →

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Germany launches new search for permanent nuclear waste disposal site via DW

Posted on 2020/09/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Germany has named 90 locations that could safely house containers of radioactive nuclear waste permanently. The controversy over what to do with waste from the country’s nuclear power plants has been long and divisive. Germany formally launched its new search … Continue reading →

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To Show Fukushima Crops are Safe, an Agency Made a Book Out of Rice Paper Grown There via Adweek

Posted on 2020/06/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Sara Spary Serviceplan created the project for a company whose sensors have shown the safety of decontaminated fields […] Nine years later, scientists in the region are fighting to show that crops from decontaminated land are safe to eat. Agency Serviceplan in Germany has … Continue reading →

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Leaning (Nuclear) Tower of Vogtle: Arnie Gundersen + Nancy Burton on Millstone Covid Outbreak + Int’l Covid/Nuclear UPDATE via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2020/05/20 by nfield

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, has more than 45 years of nuclear power engineering experience. He holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president. … Continue reading →

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