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Read MoreIAEA Fuel Bank Could Open in 2013
An unprecedented multilateral repository of fissile nuclear power plant material could open its doors in Kazakhstan in the latter part of 2013, the nation’s top diplomat told the Wall Street Journal in remarks reported on Tuesday. Washington and European governments have pursued talks on the planned site with Kazakhstan in an effort to provide incipient state atomic [...]
Read MoreIndian Crisis Teams to Receive WMD Response Training
Crisis management teams throughout India are to receive training in handling a disaster involving chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear materials, the Times of Indiareported on Monday. National Disaster Management Authority Vice President M. Shashidhar Reddy said a training facility is to be set up in Nagpur and property has also been set aside in each Indian [...]
Read MoreLand released for re-use at Magnox sites
A significant part of the land at both the Oldbury and Berkeley nuclear power plant sites in the UK can now be used for other purposes following the decision by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to release the land for new development. Lord Marland of Odstock, parliamentary under-secretary of state for energy and climate change, [...]
Read MoreRadioactive material said stolen from Egypt plant
CAIRO (Reuters) – Radioactive material has been stolen from a nuclear power station on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast that was the site of violent protests last week, state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday. A safe containing radioactive material at the Dabaa nuclear power plant was seized while another safe containing radioactive material was broken open and part [...]
Read MoreUnique counter-terrorism workshop
Matom are to run a special one day counter-terrorism workshop in association with the Continuity Forum and our specialist partners . On the 26th January 2012 the workshop will be held at the prestigious British Airways headquarters at Heathrow Airport. Aimed at corporate Business Continuity Managers, Building Managers, Security Managers, Facility Managers and Corporate Risk [...]
Read MoreTEPCO to be asked to close all 10 Fukushima nuclear plants
The Yomiuri Shimbun has reported that prefecture officials will ask TEPCO to decomission all of the 10 nuclear reactors in the Fukushima prefecture. Nuclear safety agreements require TEPCO to seek prior consent from local governments before operations are resumed. TEPCO has already decided to decommission the Nos. 1-4 reactors at the Fukushima Dai ichi. At [...]
Read MoreMore nuclear workers required
The UK nuclear sector workforce will need to grow by about 68% before 2025, offering significant employment prospects for young people. The 68% figure is based on information given by Neil Baldwin, the chairman of the country’s National Nuclear Skills Academy and managing director of reactor operator Magnox Ltd. He was speaking to the Nuclear [...]
Read MoreGE Hitachi proposes PRISM for UK plutonium disposal
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has proposed the construction of a nuclear power plant comprising two Prism fast reactors at Sellafield to assist the UK in disposing of its of reactor-grade plutonium stockpile. The proposal comes as the UK government consults on ways to manage its stockpile of uranium. The country is currently storing about 112 [...]
Read MoreExperts say: Danger of Trafficked Nuclear, Radiological Materials Lingers
Two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, the threat of a terrorist or criminal organization acquiring and smuggling nuclear or radioactive materials out of Russia or its former states persists, nonproliferation experts familiar with the issue tell us. The best known catalog of nuclear smuggling incidents is the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Illicit [...]
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