Warramunga Station is part of a high-tech global network detecting and monitoring nuclear tests around the globe, most recently by North Korea. The 20-kilometre array of seismometers is located in the centre of the Northern Territory, hundreds of kilometers from Alice Springs, and operated by Canberra's Australian National University (ANU). Abc.net.au
A Chinese nuclear giant is considering a bid for the troubled £15bn NuGen nuclear plant on the Cumbrian coast that is owned by Toshiba, according to reports. China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) has fingers in a number of UK nuclear pies, including a 33 per cent holding in the consortium building Hinkley Point C in Somerset and a 20 per cent stake in a project at Sizewell, Suffolk, and it will eventually own 66.5 per cent of a plant at Bradwell, Essex, where it will install its HPR1000 reactor. Cityam.com
For at least two years before a South Carolina nuclear power construction project was abandoned, its owners had a report that they intended to keep secret showing the reactors couldn't be completed as planned, an attorney for a legislative panel investigating the debacle said Friday. Abcnews.go.com
China has limited access to a nature reserve on its border with North Korea after mysterious seismic shakes at the rogue nation's nuclear test site were detected less than 10 minutes after it launched a missile earlier this month. Beijing reportedly closed the site over fears that underground detonations by the North Koreans at a facility near Punggye-ri could lead to rockslides and even trigger an eruption of the active volcano Mount Paektu, which is sacred to North Korea and located right on the border between the two countries. Newsweek.com
