The conversion of Ghana's research reactor to run on low-enriched uranium (LEU) instead of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) has been completed. It is the first of five such Chinese-supplied reactors outside of China to be converted. World-nuclear-news.com Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has been awarded a second final and binding partial award in the ongoing arbitration proceedings related to delays in the construction of the first-of-a-kind EPR unit at Olkiluoto. It follows the granting of a partial award to TVO last November. World-nuclear-news.com THE jury is still out on why a country like South Africa, rated number five on the world as best suitable for renewable energy, would want to build eight new nuclear power stations at cost of R1 trillion. Bereammail.com It is the faulty policy of continuous U.S. support to Pakistan’s military generals that has turned South Asia into a nuclear flashpoint, former U.S. Senator Larry Pressler has said. Mr. Pressler, known for the legislation that forced President George H.W. Bush to suspend aid to Pakistan in 1990, said the U.S. must designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism. The Pressler amendment required the President to certify annually that Pakistan did not possess a nuclear device. Thehindu.com
