November 14, 2011 Accidents and incidents Sodium burn sends Idaho National Lab worker to hospital in second accident in a week A clean up worker at the US Energy Department’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) nuclear research lab – where 16 workers…
November 14, 2011 Accidents and incidents Vacuum cleaner that sparked fire at Swedish nuclear reactor may lead to plant’s closure A severe fire in a nuclear reactor that triggered a shut down of Sweden’s largest nuclear power plant last May…
November 10, 2011 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear USA Sixteen workers exposed to radiation at US DOE lab in Idaho Six workers were contaminated by low-level plutonium radiation and 10 others were exposed on Tuesday at the US Energy Department’s…
November 9, 2011 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Chain reaction scare at Fukushima only fission incident, say authorities, but environmentalists still fear criticality A scare last week in which technicians and observers warned of a possible chain reaction in Fukushima Daiichi’s destroyed reactor…
November 8, 2011 Nuclear issues COMMENT: Russia will pay for export nuke plant in Bangladesh, host Bangladeshi nuclear waste – all for the cleansing light of nuclear power, no doubt In yet another export deal marked with an astounding lack of solid reasoning, Russia’s State Nuclear Corporation Rosatom has managed…
