AECOM said Monday it has completed the decontamination and demolition of a facility at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory that was used in the early 1950s to separate plutonium and uranium from irradiated materials. The two elements were then used in nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. Timesunion.com South Africa will not adopt a “big bang” approach to building new nuclear power capacity but instead add capacity in an affordable way, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday. Reuters.com Russia has resumed sharing data from radiation monitoring stations in Siberia after some were taken offline following a deadly explosion at a missile range, a nuclear weapons watchdog said Tuesday, while an American expert said the fact that more than one Russian site went offline at the same time suggests it was not the work of Mother Nature. Abcnews.go.com Britain’s nuclear watchdog has agreed to allow one of the country’s oldest nuclear reactors to restart, one year after it was shut down to investigate cracks in its graphite core. Theguardian.com
