February 1, 2011 Nuclear UK An accident at Sellafield would hit Norway seven times harder than Chernobyl: Report An accident at England’s aged Sellafield nuclear facility would have seven times the environmental impact in Norway that Chernobyl did,…
January 30, 2011 Nuclear issues Single Lithuanian nuclear power plant desperately seeking investor MINSK/ST.PETERSBURG – The media in the small Baltic state of Lithuania are busy discussing the recent fiasco with a tender…
January 25, 2011 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia announces start date for construction of Belarus NPP in haste, giving away billions The construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus with lavish Russian assistance will begin in September, the head of…
January 25, 2011 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear Russia Reactor glitches become regular occurrence in Russia’s Northwest MOSCOW – January 2011 has so far seen five unplanned reactor outages at Leningrad, Kalinin, and Kola Nuclear Power Plants…
January 24, 2011 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Rosatom presents a few results from its work in 2010 with a cocktail of gallows humour At the end of December the public council of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, held it’s year-end meeting at which…