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PUBLIC OPINION RECOVERS: POLITICIANS REMAIN DEAF
First, the good news. Nuclear power has virtually recovered from the knock it took over Fukushima. Indeed, according to an Ipsos MORI poll between December 2 and 8 exactly half the population is now in favour of replacing existing nuclear power stations and only 20% against. That compares with a favourable 36/28% rating in June last year – three months after the Japanese disaster. Read more...
Comprehensive nuclear safety assessments being carried out by the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) are “generally consistent” with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety standards, says a preliminary summary report published today by the Vienna-based agency.
A visit to Russia by a delegation from the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has shown that many of the “mandatory conditions” for NEA membership have been met, Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Rosatom has said.
The Dutch government has given the green light for a new research reactor to be built at Petten in the Netherlands, replacing the existing High-Flux Reactor (HFR), which has been in operation since 1961 and is reaching the end of its economic life.
A commission appointed to find alternatives to a failed plan to store nuclear waste in the Nevada desert said yesterday that the US would have to develop a “consent-based approach” for choosing a site because leaving the decision to Congress had failed.
A wireless tracking system that can provide a real-time headcount of underground workers is to be used at the Swedish nuclear waste management company SKB International’s Aspo Hard Rock Laboratory.
Radioactive releases from Canadian nuclear power plants from 2001 to 2010 were “far below” the set limit for the release of radioactive substances from a licensed nuclear facility, the country’s regulator has said in a report published yesterday.
The quest to create nuclear fusion may have come a step closer after scientists heated solid matter to two million degrees Celsius with the world’s most powerful X-ray laser.
Delta says it remains convinced of the need for new nuclear, despite a decision announced this week to delay plans for a new plant at the at the existing Borssele site by two to three years.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has shut down another reactor for regular inspections, leaving just four of the country’s 54 reactor units in commercial operation.
With 65 reactor units under construction around the world the nuclear energy industry can play an important role in job creation and economic growth, providing both near-term and lasting employment and economic benefits, a US industry group has said.
The Dutch government has given the green light for a new research reactor to be built at Petten in the Netherlands, replacing the existing High-Flux Reactor (HFR), which has been in operation since 1961 and is reaching the end of its economic life.
