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Scot J. Paltrow AMARILLO, Texas (Reuters) - In a sprawling plant near Amarillo, Texas, rows of workers perform by hand one of the most dangerous jobs in American industry. Contract workers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pantex facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired (…)

Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) said it plans to start loading fuel into the core of the Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) EPR in the autumn, once an operating licence has been granted. However, the company said it is awaiting confirmation from the Areva-Siemens consortium that start-up of the unit (…)

Source : The Herald Rob Edwards NEW cracks have been discovered in one of Scotland’s ageing nuclear reactors, raising radiation safety fears and resulting in a prolonged shutdown, the Sunday Herald can reveal. Checks have detected fresh cracks in the graphite core of a reactor at (…)

— By FPJ Political Bureau Mumbai : It seems that the petrochemical refinery worth Rs 3 lakh crore in Rajapur tehsil of Ratnagiri district is not enough for Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, though the project has led to relations between the party (…)

En accédant à la position d’interlocuteur de la nation la plus puissante du monde, la Corée du Nord illustre la nature politique de la dissuasion nucléaire. <img alt="l'objectif de l'arme atomique est " l'équilibre="" (…)

Winners of the world’s leading environmental award faced down Vladimir Putin and the country’s recently deposed leader, Jacob Zuma, to overturn a multibillion-dollar nuclear deal Jonathan Watts in Cape Town Two grassroots women activists – one black, one white – stand together against (…)

Gilbert Reilhac, Lucien Libert BURE, France (Reuters) - The 82 residents of the French village of Bure lived a quiet life until the government began testing the feasibility of storing nuclear waste there. Now Bure is rocked by protests as a final decision on the project looms. A (…)

STÉPHANE FRACHET EDF achève l'installation de générateurs de secours sur la centrale de Chinon (Indre-et-Loire) dotée de quatre réacteurs. L'investissement total des mesures post-Fukushima s'élève à 250 millions d'euros. EDF a terminé l'installation de générateurs (…)

Note de facteur du Réseau sur la liste [rezo-actu] à l'article ci-dessous : Alors que toutes les données sont disponibles sur la fusion de tous les types de "combustibles" de Three Mile Island à Tchernobyl en passant par Fukushima et son MOX labellisé Orano, les atomistes (…)

editorial On 29 June 2015, The Namibian carried a story under the heading "Geingob's unexplained cash". The story was a result of questions sent to President Hage Geingob shortly after he publicly declared his assets. It took the President more than a month to answer (…)