November 2016

Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved an application by Kansai Electric Power Co Inc to extend the life of an aging reactor beyond 40 years, the second such approval it has granted under new safety requirements imposed since the Fukushima disaster. reuters.com

       The global nuclear industry was heavily impacted by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March of 2011 in Japan. Many countries reexamined their nuclear safety standards and there were many  changes in regulations and some upgrades to existing plants. Plans for new plants underwent review and some were altered.

Currently the United States is the world's largest producer of nuclear power, but Nevada is home to zero of the 99 plants operating across the cou

       The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant is located on the southwest coast of Finland. It has two operational boiling water reactors that each generate eight hundred and sixty megawatts of electricity. A third reactor is under construction at Olkiluoto. This reactor is based on the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) design.

Despite objections from antinuclear campaigners, Japan’s government cleared the way on Friday for companies that build nuclear power plants to sell their technology to India — one of the few nations planning big expansions in atomic energy — by signing a cooperation agreement with the South Asian count

        France has been having problems lately with a major supplier of nuclear hardware.