At ca. 9.00 a.m. a deflagration occurred in an auxiliary steam generator while opening the inactive side of the steam generator, located in the turbine hall. Two workers were injured and immediately transported to hospital. The plant is in refueling state since one week. No radioactive release happened. Neither any safety system was involved, no plant equipment was damaged. The injured persons are not contaminated. Rating explanation: The event can be rated as out of scale but because of the deflagration in the turbine hall of BWR the event was rated as below scale/zero.
An analysis by the Norwegian NGO Bellona of transborder trade operations with the customs code 840130 (irradiated fuel assemblies or fuel elements) show a more than twofold increase of import to EU countries of fresh nuclear fuel in cash terms – from 280 million Euros in 2022 to 686 million Euros in 2023. In physical […]
The French government has said it is "seriously" studying the option of building a plant to convert and enrich reprocessed uranium to cut its reliance on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. The only plant in the world that currently converts reprocessed uranium for use in nuclear power plants is in Russia. "The option of […]
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.
