Nuclear News Roundup Mar 14, 2017 The Taiwanese nuclear power regulator, the Atomic Energy Council, has approved the restart of the 951 MWe Kuosheng 2 reactor that has been idled since a fire in May 2016, putting the final decision in the bureaucratic process with the parliament. Nuclearstreet.com A government panel in Japan has weighed in on the underground ice wall that forms a 1-mile perimeter surrounding the destroyed Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors and buildings, calling the wall's ability to stop water from seeping into the area only partly successful. Nuclearstreet.com Westinghouse Electric Company and its eight European consortium partners today announced the successful completion of an EU funded project targeted at diversifying the nuclear fuel supply to VVER-440 reactors in Europe. Nuclearstreet.com Hundreds gathered at an anti-nuclear rally in Taiwan on Sunday (Mar 11) to demand the government keep its pledge to abolish the use of atomic energy by 2025. Channelnewsasia.com
