The Japanese government plans to introduce a new law to limit the lifetime of nuclear reactors to 40 years, Japan’s minister for nuclear accidents has said.
Shikoku Electric Power Company started procedures today to shut down unit 2 at the Ikata nuclear power plant, bringing the number of nuclear units offline in Japan to 49 out of 54.
The first public meeting about the stress tests that have been carried out on Europe’s nuclear power plants and the related peer review process will be held in Brussels on 17 January 2012, the European Nuclear Safety Regulators’ Group (Ensreg) has said.
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved Westinghouse’s AP1000 nuclear reactor design, clearing the way for potential construction of the first US reactors in three decades.
