Radiation News Roundup Oct 05, 2015

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday that it had completed its Final Safety Report for the combined licenses for the South Texas Projects Units 3 and 4 and that there were no safety impediments that would preclude issuing licenses for construction and operation of the two proposed reactors. nuclearstreet.com

The European Union's Court of Justice on Thursday said that a tax in Sweden on nuclear power plants that is based on production capacity rather than the amount of electricity sold could stand, because it did not violate the international mandates that the court is expected to uphold. nuclearstreet.com

The final used fuel element has been removed from unit 2 of the Oldbury nuclear power plant in the UK, the last of more than 52,000 fuel elements from the two Magnox reactors there. world-nuclear-news.org

A report from the think tank Chatham House, which involved 18 months of research, concludes that nuclear power plants around the globe are vulnerable to cyber-attacks and that the risk of cyber-oriented plant disasters is increasing. nuclearstreet.com