Nuclear News Roundup Feb 02, 2019 The arctic blast wreaking havoc across much of the U.S. was cold enough to shut down a nuclear reactor, thanks to a rare phenomenon called frazil ice. Fortune.com Construction of the first pair of APR1400 reactors - Shin Kori 3 and 4 - was authorised in 2006, although the actual construction licence was not issued until April 2008. World-nuclear-news.com Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected to government in January 2016 having a policy of creating a "nuclear-free homeland" by 2025. Under this policy, Taiwan's six operable power reactors will be decommissioned as their 40-year operating licences expire. Shortly after taking office, the DPP government passed an amendment to the Electricity Act, passing its phase-out policy into law. World-nuclear-news.com The U.S. Department of Energy’s Officer of Environmental Management (EM), charged with addressing the country’s Cold War legacy, said this week that the program to convert uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) into a more stable form had converted more than half of the 9,000 metric ton annual goal for 2019 in just the final quarter of 2018. Nuclearstreet.com
