September 5, 2012 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues Steam leak at France’s Fessenheim nuclear power plant injures two A blast of escaping steam resulting from an involuntary chemical reaction triggered a brief fire alert at a France’s oldest…
August 30, 2012 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues Reactor vessel cracks revealed in Belgium earlier this month spark international inspections As inspectors investigate possible manufacturing shortcomings in the reactor pressure vessel of the No 3 reactor at the Doel Nuclear…
August 28, 2012 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Russia announces enormous finds of radioactive waste and nuclear reactors in Arctic seas Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean…
August 14, 2012 Russian Navy Skyrocketing costs of launching ‘new’ nuclear submarine flex muscles Russia does not have The Severodvinsk, the flagship for the new Yasen class of large scale Russian submarines, has failed sea trials in the…
August 13, 2012 Nuclear Russia Norway pulls plug on electricity from Kola Nuclear Power Plant’s ageing reactors MURMANSK – Norway has given the cold shoulder to plans to buy energy from the Murmansk region to power gas…
