April 2018

Addressing shareholders at the company's annual general meeting in Darwin yesterday, Peter Mansell said that, with a third of the world's total undeveloped uranium reserves, the potential to expand Australian uranium mining was real. World-nuclear-news.org

Gunter, who leads the reactor oversite project at the anti-nuclear group Beyond Nuclear, pressed nuclear regulators on Tuesday to "autopsy" the Oyster Creek Generating Station in Lacey after it shuts down later this year. App.com

       There are many sites around the world contaminated by radioactive materials. Some sites such as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State were dedicated to nuclear weapons production and little regard was given to safely disposing of radioactive materials. Some sites such as the Nevada Test Site were used to test nuclear weapons before a treaty banned above ground and atmospheric tests.

The South African Department of Energy (DoE) will have to report back to Cabinet regarding requests for proposals for the new nuclear build programme before a final decision on nuclear energy is made, says Energy Minister Jeff Radebe.  Fin24.com

        India has very serious shortages of electricity. About two hundred million people out of India’s one billion three hundred million citizens do not have any access to electricity. Much of the rest of the country does not have reliable sources of electricity. In July of 2012, India experienced the biggest electrical blackout in world history.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the issuance of combined construction and operating licenses (COLs) for the two proposed AP1000 reactors at Florida Power and Light's (FPL's) Turkey Point plant in Florida.

       Nuclear power reactors are fueled with fuel rod assemblies. The fuel rods in the assemblies are long and thin. They are filled with pellets of enriched uranium or a mixture of uranium and plutonium. The rods are coated with an alloy of zirconium.