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A new international research project which could one day lead to a new source of safe, abundant clean energy for Earth was launched today by scientists, engineers and Ministers from across Europe, at a special event and press conference at the Science Museum in London.
Today's launch event marks the start of a three year planning and preparatory phase of the European High Power Energy Research Facility ( HiPER ) project. This is the first step towards HiPER's long term goal, which is to facilitate the technological and scientific advances necessary to make nuclear fusion, which powers the sun, a possible source of energy in the future.
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Whitehaven News: Drigg’s huge waste site project to get most materials by rail
ONE of the area’s biggest construction projects, at the low-level radioactive waste site at Drigg, will not only give valuable work to two Copeland quarries but keep transport disruption to a minimum.
Drigg villagers will be told that 90 per cent of the materials needed to built the massive Vault 9 at the repository will be taken by rail.
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Whitehaven News: Nuclear shipments ban to go?
SELLAFIELD is one step away from having its ban on plutonium shipments lifted.
The ban or prohibition notice was imposed in June after it was discovered that a shipment of the highly radioactive material from Sellafield to France failed to meet regulations. The embarrassment arose over a failure to comply with the Department of Transport’s certificate of ap
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RIA Novosti - Russia denies nuclear weapons on ships bound for Venezuela
Russian warships en route to Venezuela to take part in naval exercises are not carrying nuclear weapons, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
"There are no tactical nuclear weapons on board these ships," Andrei Nesterenko told a news conference at RIA Novosti.
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Ukrainian Journal: Russia’s Atomstroiexport to build Khmelnytsky reactors three and four
The general contractor to build reactors three and four at the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant will be Russia's ZAO Atomstroiexport, a source in the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.
"The interagency tender commission on the selection of the type of generating units for reactors three and four at the Khmelnytsky NPP has finished its work. After studying proposals from Atomstroiexport, South Koera's ÊÅÐÑÎ and U.S. company Westinghouse, the commission said that the Russian project was the best," the source said.
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NewsRoom Finland: Finnish local councils may be given veto on uranium mines
A Finnish government working group tasked with proposing amendments to the Mining Act said in a report Wednesday that local councils should have the right to veto uranium mines.
Mauri Pekkarinen, the economic affairs minister, said as he was handed the report that the veto right was justified.
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Robots to work in Dounreay's radioactive cells - John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courier
ROBOTS are being employed to help clean up Dounreay. Decommissioning bosses have turned to specialist demolition firm Brokk to supply the remotely-operated equipment that can work inside cells and a pond where radiation levels are still too high for human access.
The robots – mounted on tracks like a construction excavator and powered by electricity – have been fitted with specially-designed tools.
They will go inside the cells and pond to cut up and package the vessels and pipes where more than 10,000 spent fuel elements were dissolved and reprocessed before the plant shut down in 1996.
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Nuclear waste disposal facility opened in southern Hungary - Caboodle.hu
Hungary's new nuclear waste disposal facility has the highest possible safety standards that current technology allows, Jozsef Palinkas, head of the Academy of Sciences (MTA), said on Monday.
"MTA scientists went to enormous efforts to find the location from where radioactive materials cannot escape under any circumstances," Palinkas said, opening the first phase of the project.
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The Associated Press: Dangerous spent fuel returned to US
Germany has returned over 20 pounds of highly enriched uranium fuel to the U.S. for safeguarding from terrorists or potential misuse, the government said Tuesday.
The National Nuclear Security Administration said the spent fuel shipment was transported by ship and rail under secret and secure conditions. Spokeswoman Casey Ruberg said the material was secured at the federal Savannah River site near Aiken, S.C., on Sept. 23.
Overall, nearly 115 pounds of spent fuel, originally provided by the United States for use in research reactors, has been returned to the United States from Argentina, Portugal, Romania and Germany during the past year, the agency said.
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UK nuclear capacity in meltdown | Greenpeace UK
Should you happen to find yourself debating with a passionate supporter of nuclear power about how to supply our country's future energy needs, the odds are that pretty early in the debate they'll play their trump card - namely that only nuclear can supply the 'base load' necessary to ensure that the lights stay on throughout the long, dark British winter. Hang the dangers of radioactivity, forget the ruinous expense, they'll say - we can't do without nuclear power.
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The Cumberland News: Sellafield transferred in historic £20bn deal
THE £20bn deal to transfer Sellafield to private ownership, described as “the most important development in the history of west Cumbria”, was signed yesterday.
Nuclear Management Partners, an American-Anglo-French consortium, sealed a ‘transition agreement’ with the Government clearing the way for a formal handover of the site next month.
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Bloomberg.com: Russia's Nuclear Shutdown Pads Reactor Orders, Purges Chernobyl
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- ``All zones, fire at the nuclear power plant,'' booms a loudspeaker at 9:00 a.m. near the Volgodonsk station deep in southwest Russia.
Within 3 minutes, emergency personnel known as liquidators spill out of fire trucks wearing rubber boots and gloves to guard against electric shock as flames dance inside. At 9:14 a.m. an armored car rolls up, turret slowly twisting, measuring radiation. The command center receives a reading transmission: Abnormal.
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BBC NEWS | Views sought over nuclear build
A series of public events is planned to discuss plans for a new nuclear plant at Hinkley, Somerset.
Local residents will be give the opportunity to see current plans and to raise any concerns they have.
British Energy and EDF are arranging events as part of proposals to involve the local community in discussions about new nuclear power plants.
Events are planned at Nether Stowey, Cannington, Bridgwater, Combwich, Burnham-on-Sea, Williton and Stogursey.
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IAEA 52nd General Conference of Member States Draws to a Close
The IAEA´s 52nd General Conference of Member States concluded today in Vienna. More than 130 IAEA Member States and over 1400 delegates attended the five-day event held at the Austria Center, Vienna from 29 September – 4 October.
At its concluding session, the General Conference adopted resolutions backing the IAEA´s work and setting future directions in key areas. These included nuclear safety, nuclear applications, technology transfer and safeguards implementation. The full texts of adopted resolutions will be posted on the IAEA.org website as they become available.
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SNP wave farm could create ‘nuclear threat’ - Times Online
THE construction of the world’s largest tidal farm off the north of Scotland could put lives at risk by disturbing thousands of radioactive particles from the Dounreay nuclear plant, a government adviser has warned.
Dr John Large, an independent nuclear consultant who has advised the UK government, fears that laying cables to connect turbines to the national grid would release nuclear waste buried in the seabed.
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New law and order in Russian radioactive waste
The number of storage sites for radioactive wastes number thousands, and they are difficult to monitor, deputy head of Russia’s nuclear energy company Rosatom told journalists in Sankt Petersburg. Now, a new law will help reduce the number of sites.
-We expect a new law on the handling of radioactive wastes to be adopted by the end of the year, deputy head of Rosatom Yevgenii Yevstratov confirmed. The law will help significantly limit the number of waste storage sites.
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Inhabitat » Chicken Manure to power 90,000 Homes in the Netherlands!
Here at Inhabitat we love to see innovative reuses for organic waste, and so we’re perpetually fascinated by the potential of poo to be used as a renewable source of energy. Last week Dutch agriculture minister Gerda Verburg announced a groundbreaking development for the field as she unveiled the world’s largest biomass power plant to run exclusively on poultry manure. The plant will convert a third of the nation’s chicken waste into energy while running at a capacity of 36.5 megawatts - enough to power 90,000 homes!
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French EDF not to sign BE/Centrica deal until after EC OK: report
French energy giant EDF's UK subsidiary EDF Energy would not comment Wednesday on press reports that no deal would be reached with UK's Centrica over ownership of nuclear generator British Energy until after the European Commission ratified the French company's takeover bid. State-controlled EDF's Eur15.6 billion ($22 billion) takeover of British Energy was agreed September 24 by the boards of EDF and British Energy and is subject to UK and EC regulatory approval.
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BBC NEWS| Mixed views on new nuclear build
Residents living near existing nuclear reactors only have "qualified support" for new power stations, a study shows.
While most locals trusted the operators of their nearby power station, some had a strong distrust of the UK Government and the nuclear industry, it added.
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BBC NEWS | UK | University radiation probe begins
An expert has been appointed by a university to investigate claims that radiation exposure may be linked to the deaths of five people who worked there.
Professor David Coggon from the Medical Research Council will lead the review at the University of Manchester.
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