Nuclear News Roundup Nov 30, 2016

The French nuclear industry is in its “worst situation ever” because of a spate of plant closures in France and the complexities it faces with the UK’s Hinkley Point C power station, according to a former Électricité de France director. theguardian.com

A consortium led by Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract to examine the future decommissioning of the Iter fusion reactor, currently under construction at Cadarache in the south of France. world-nuclear-news.org

Nuclear reactors running on thorium are widely held to be inherently safer than the awful pressurized-water reactors we have today. So why don’t we have thorium reactors? A new TV documentary also available online answers the question quite well. cleantechnica.com

The Tennessee Valley Authority has been fined $140,000 for fire violations at a nuclear power plant near Athens, Alabama. timesdaily.com