Nuclear News Roundup Aug 01, 2018 The late night transportation by road of nuclear waste from Lucas Heights to Port Kembla on the weekend was described as “routine” by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. Begadistrictnews.com Plans for completing the idled Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Jackson County, Alabama are being unveiled today. Decaturcaily.com Rusatom Healthcare - a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom - and the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) have signed an agreement to cooperate on non-power applications of nuclear technology, particularly nuclear medicine. Under the agreement, the partners plan to construct two small-scale reactors as well as a cyclotron in South Africa for the production of medical isotopes. World-nuclear-news.org On the heels of a $263 million Nuclear Sector Deal between the industry and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the British government said that nuclear power in Britain ticked slightly lower in 2017 from 2016, dropping from 21.1 percent of the country's electricity generation to 20.8 percent. Nuclearstreet.com
