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  • Shrinkwrapping Bradwell

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 03:20

    The main buildings at the UK's shuttered Bradwell nuclear power plant are to be sealed in a £20 million ($31 million) 'weather envelope' while they await final dismantling.

  • Bids in for new Finnish plant

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 03:20

    Fennovoima has received commercial bids from Areva and Toshiba for the construction of its planned nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki on the western coast of Finland. A final decision on the plant supplier will be made by the end of next year.

  • Low risk from major accident consequences

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 03:20

    A severe accident at a US nuclear power plant would not be likely to cause any immediate deaths, while the risks of fatal cancers caused by such an accident would be millions of times lower than the general risks of dying of cancer, a long-running research study has found.

  • Privatisation of Russian state nuclear giant

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 03:20

    Having spent five years combining its nuclear power, engineering and scientific enterprises into the single entity of Rosatom, Russia now sees privatisation of the firm as part of a plan for industrial modernisation.

  • Is there life after sixty?

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 03:20

    A new research program headed by the US Department of Energy will begin to investigate the case for reactor lifespans of greater than 60 years.

  • Kazakhstan continues front-end push

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 03:20

    Kazakhstan has posted another year of record uranium production as it furthers its diversification into value-added nuclear fuel products.

  • Novovoronezh II steam generators on track

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 03:20

    The first of four steam generators for the second phase of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in Russia has been transported to the construction site by rail.

  • New lease of life for Smolensk

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 02:15

    Upgrade work will enable the lives of three RBMK reactors at the Smolensk site in Russia to be extended until the first new unit of a replacement plant is up, according to Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko.

  • TVA looks again at Watts Bar schedule

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 02:15

    Construction efficiency is the priority for Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as it examines the Watts Bar completion project and the start-up date for the new reactor slips backwards.

  • Imminent construction of Baltic nuclear power plant

    Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 02:15

    Engineers are preparing to pour the concrete foundation of the Baltic Nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad. Once underway, it will be the ninth power reactor under construction in Europe.