The unit was shut down in a planned manner on 5.5.92 to attend to maintenance jobs in moderator system. While manually tripping the reactor, the time recorded in Recording Annunciator (RA) for the moderator level in calandria to drop from 91% full tank to 35% full tank was found to be 13.938 secs. against the normal value of 7.5 to 8 secs. Malfunctioning of the calandria level indicating instrument giving signal to RA on level reaching 35% full tank is suspected to be the cause of this event. As the high dump time recorded is spurious, the event can be rated as level 0 under A-1R category of Table-1 of INES Users Manual.
Jan vd Putte quickly changed from dressing as the pied piper at the protest during the IAEA nuclear power conference to warn for the Russian nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom and its role in Ukraine.
Anke Herold, Executive Director Oeko-Institut, Freiburg (Germany), in Brussels about the claim to triple nuclear by 2050: IPCC scenarios vs forecast development of nuclear.
Yesterday, the ANVS, the Dutch nuclear supervisor, authorized the transport of up to six shipments of fissile enriched uranium from Russia to Urenco in Almelo. This is remarkable because after the Russian invasion, almost two years ago, the uranium-enriching state-owned company in Almelo claimed to be "very concerned" about developments in Ukraine and therefore "stopped […]
[The Guardian]: "As nuclear plant is hit by further delay, real cost will be far higher after inflation is included, as project uses 2015 prices. The owner of Hinkley Point C has blamed inflation, Covid and Brexit as it announced the nuclear power plant project could be delayed by a further four years, and cost […]
From WNN: In 2022, 13 EU countries with nuclear electricity production generated 609,255 GWh of nuclear electricity - down 16.7% compared with 2021, according to figures released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. It noted this is the lowest level registered in the period from 1990, the first year for which comparable […]