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John on May 18th, 2012

Rolls-Royce has delivered the final components of a multimillion dollar package of automated handling, transportation and storage technology to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL), Canada’s leading nuclear science and technology Laboratory.

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The Office for Nuclear Regulation has published  its assessment of stress tests for UK non power generating nuclear facilities.

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The Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR is a major contributor to an international workshop to learn lessons from the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident by improving crisis communications.

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John on May 2nd, 2012

EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger and Andrej Stritar, Chairperson of ENSREG, the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group, welcomed the adoption of the ENSREG stress test report and the agreement to examine some safety aspects in more detail and prepare a follow up in the next few months.

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John on April 24th, 2012

 Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (TEPCO) announced that it has classified Units 1 through 4 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) as permanently decommissioned from  April 19 2012.

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On 22 March 2012, international experts concluded their meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna. In their presentations and discussions, the experts sought to identify the root causes of the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

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admin on February 10th, 2012

They are small and do not produce energy for electricity production, but for over half a century research reactors have been fostering scientific innovation and education in more than 50 countries around the world.

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John on January 25th, 2012

Japan Atomic Industry Forum JAIF reports on the 93% of Japanese nuclear reactors that are now switched out of service.

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John on January 19th, 2012

The latest face-to-face survey of the British public by Ipsos MORI shows that public support for nuclear energy has bounced back strongly since its June 2011 low point in the wake of the Fukushima incident in Japan in March.

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John on January 3rd, 2012

Nuclear Liaison TV have posted the edited video of the Manchester Salon discussion ‘Fukushima fallout’ that took place in October. 

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