February 26, 2011 Nuclear Iran Fuel to be removed from Iran’s Russian-built Bushehr reactor over major safety concerns Iran said Saturday it will have to remove fuel from the controversial nuclear reactor that Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom…
February 23, 2011 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia COMMENT: Belarus’s ecologists keep up court battle to exercise right to information on future Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant MINSK – The Belarusian NGO Ecodom (Ecohome) has lost yet another court hearing in its crusade to obtain full documentation…
February 21, 2011 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Comment: The Russian ‘nuclear renaissance’ has been postponed as government cuts Rosatom investment program MOSCOW – At a mid February meeting of the Russian government to reel in electricity costs, officials decided to cut…
February 18, 2011 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear Russia Russia’s Balakovo nuke plant hiccupping again MOSCOW – Personnel at Russia’s Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) were again forced on Wednesday to patch up the station’s…
February 17, 2011 Nuclear USA Three US states sue NRC over onsite spent nuclear fuel storage as end to America’s open nuclear fuel cycle draws near The attorneys general of New York, Connecticut and Vermont have filed suit against the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the…