September 16, 2012 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Japan offers vague, weak nuclear exit by 2040 that could have reactors chugging decades beyond deadline Japan finally announced, in the wake of last year’s disastrous triple meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant, that it…
September 14, 2012 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Nuclear waste ship leaves Murmansk harbor for good after 20-years of politicking and environmental pressure The Lepse nuclear service ship, which has since 1988 languished at dockside in Murmansk’s atomic icebreaker port, posing enormous radiological…
September 12, 2012 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Lepse nuclear waste storage ship endangering Murmansk for decades finally headed for dismantlement The Lepse nuclear waste ship, which has for more that two decades hovered in its Murmansk port, bursting at the…
September 10, 2012 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear Russia COMMENT: Fire at Rostov NPP blazes for three hours, burning up millions on hasty construction project MOSCOW – A three hour long fire within the No 3 reactor block’s protective cement barrier at Rostov Nuclear Power…
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…