January 2017

Construction of the third and fourth units at the United Arab Emirates' Barakah project has passed the

       Disposing of nuclear waste is a major problem for all countries that use nuclear power to generate electricity. In the U.S., the Yucca Mountain Repository for spent nuclear fuel was supposed to be ready by 1999 but the uncompleted project was canceled in 2009. Meanwhile, spent nuclear fuel continues to pile up at power reactor sites around the country.

No inadequate or counterfeited documentation related to the manufacture of forged steel parts used in Finnish nuclear power plants has so far been identified by the plant operators.

       Hanford keeps turning up in my blogs because it is one of the most radioactively contaminated sites on Earth thanks to the Department of Defense use of the site for the development of nuclear weapons. At one point, they poured millions of gallons of radioactive liquids directly into ditches that were not even lined with plastic. There are underground tanks that are filled with a witches brew of toxic chemicals and radioactive substances that are leaking into the soil. The U.S.

US-based GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has been awarded a three-year contract to dismantle the reactor internals of units 1 and 2 at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Sweden. world-nuclear-news.org

       The Prime Minister of Japan bet heavily on nuclear power for domestic power production and for major export sales to foreign nations. Major Japanese nuclear technology corporations also bet on nuclear power for expansion and profit. Now one of those corporations finds itself in serious financial difficulty related to its nuclear power business.