Nuclear News Roundup Mar 21, 2017 The Euratom Supply Agency, the nuclear watchdog of the European Union, has approved Berkeley Energia's offtake agreement for the sale of the first production from its Salamanca uranium mine under development in Spain. The mine is expected to enter production in late 2018. world-nuclear-news.org A City Council Member is pushing for a resolution to keep nuclear waste form being shipped through San Antonio, Texas. ktsa.com Fears that Toshiba’s struggling nuclear business Westinghouse could be on the brink of going under have been reignited following reports that it is lining up a US bankruptcy protection finance package. telegraph.co.uk Both reactors at TVA's newest nuclear power plant are shut down after plant operators idled one unit for routine refueling Saturday and shut down the other unit Monday after detecting problems in the pumps on the non-nuclear part of the plant. timesfreepress.com
