December 12, 2013 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Movement on dismantlement of decrepit Lepse nuclear service ship finally on horizon The long delayed dismantling of the Lepse Russian nuclear service ship, brimming with spent nuclear fuel, much of it damaged,…
December 9, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Why you shouldn’t care if the IAEA praises Fukushima decommissioning efforts On Friday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sent a cohort to the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant, and headlines trumpeted…
December 3, 2013 Nuclear Russia Chernobyl-type reactor survives CPR and goes back online at Leningrad nuclear plant Workers have repaired swelling and cracking of the graphite moderator at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant’s No 1 reactor –…
November 29, 2013 International climate conferences, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan, Nuclear Russia Japan tries to plug leaks about leaks, donning Russia’s mantle of nuclear and Olympic explosions The Japanese government’s powerful lower house of Parliament passed a stiff new secrecy bill that would visit harsh penalties on…
November 25, 2013 Gas, Nuclear Russia, Oil Atomic energy willing to aid Russia’s crude dreams of the Arctic MURMANSK – Without any of its own drilling installations in the Arctic, and in the face of constant delays to…
