Nuclear News Roundup Jun 29, 2018 GE and French utility EDF have agreed to team to build six reactors for a nuclear power project in western India, which is due to be the world’s biggest when finished. In.reuters.com Britain's Office of Nuclear Regulation said this week that the release of water at the Sellafield site on March 1 of this year during extremely cold weather included as much as 680 cubic meters (more than 24,000 cubic feet) of water. But the regulator said the estimate of the amount water that became contaminated before it was cleaned up was conservative, even while the effect on the environment was "negligible." Nuclearstreet.com EDF and VEOLIA said Tuesday they had entered a partnership agreement to co-develop remote control solutions for dismantling gas-cooled reactors (natural uranium graphite gas) and for vitrifying radioactive waste, in France and other locations around the globe. Nuclearstreet.com Identified uranium resources are sufficient for well over 100 years of supply, but the current oversupply may not last for ever and it is important that this “vital resource” is mined, produced and managed sustainably, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Yukiya Amano told the opening of a meeting on the uranium production cycle today. Nucnet.org
