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…
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…
