Geiger Readings for Sep 04, 2019 Sep 04 2019 charts.png Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745China is still actively promoting a nuclear fuel reprocessing project with France’s Orano, formerly called Areva, the head of China’s nuclear safety watchdog said on Tuesday. Uk.reuters.com Work has been completed to remove fuel from the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria, in northwest England. Opened on 17 October 1956, Calder Hall was in operation for 47 years, until 2003, and the defueling operation began in 2011. World-nuclear-news.org The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrongly approved the sale and decommissioning of a Massachusetts nuclear power plant and should halt both immediately, the state’s attorney general told the commission in a Sept. 4 filing with the federal agency. Bloombergenvironment.com About 25 guards at Xcel Energy's Monticello nuclear power plant have been locked out by their employer, G4S, and no resolution to the labor impasse appears to be in sight. Startribune.com