Nuclear News Roundup March 01, 2024
As JET's vital role celebrated ... could UK rejoin Euratom in 2028? World-nuclear-news.org
Geiger Readings for March 01, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 83 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 127 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 129 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1351 - France Is Reprocessing Spent Nuclear Fuel To Create New Nuclear Fuel
Unit 2 of the Cruas-Meysse nuclear power plant in south-eastern France was recently restarted after being fueled with its first full core of recycled uranium fuel. The action marks a major milestone in France's efforts to revive its domestic uranium reprocessing industry.
Geiger Readings for February 29, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 67 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 136 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 136 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 854 - Leaked Russian Classified Documents Reveal That Russia Considered The Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons If China Invaded
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Russian Tactical Nuclear missile
Recently obtained classified Russian military documents reportedly show that Russian forces have rehearsed using tactical nuclear weapons during “an early stage of conflict with a major world power”. China is the major world power in question.
Nuclear News Roundup February 28, 2024
Bowing to Putin’s nuclear blackmail will make nuclear war more likely atlanticcounsel.org
Geiger Readings for February 28, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Radioactive Waste 925 - Hanford Vitrification Plant Will Be In Operation Soon - Part 2 of 2 Part
Part 2 Of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Energy shared that so far, “The [Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant] team has successfully filled four stainless steel containers with molten glass to test the process.”