Nuclear News Roundup Sep 04, 2024
The Kremlin explained the need to update Russia's nuclear doctrine comoreanda-news.com
The Kremlin explained the need to update Russia's nuclear doctrine comoreanda-news.com
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Brazilian fuel cycle company Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) has announced that it will resume exploration for uranium in the country after a forty-year hiatus.
Ambient office = 131 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 92 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 90 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear-powered container ships could be moving cargo in and out of Europe by the end of the decade. Danish company Maersk moves twelve million containers a year. It has partnered with Lloyd’s Register and nuclear technology start-up Core Power to study the regulatory feasibility of using fourth-generation nuclear reactors to supply power to container ships.
Ambient office = 115 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Westinghouse tech-based nuclear reactors approved for projects in China pennbizreport.com
Ambient office = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 112 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 113 nanosieverts per hour
Commercial SMR Agreement Reached at U.S-Africa Nuclear Energy Summit energycentral.com
Ambient office = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 95 nanosieverts per hour
France is starting up its first newly built nuclear reactor in a quarter of a century. The project is twelve years behind schedule and has suffered multiple setbacks. France is still looking to a nuclear revival with plans for more new plants.
Why Is the US Fighting Nuclear Threats Behind Closed Doors? Hindustantimes.com
Ambient office = 90 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Finland is soon to become the first country in the world to attempt the burial of nuclear fuel waste in a permanent geological tomb stored for the next one hundred thousand years.
The plan is to pack the spent nuclear fuel in watertight canisters and deposit them about thirteen hundred feet below ground level in the forest of the southwest region of Finland.
Kishida looks to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa units world-nuclear-news.org
Ambient office = 109 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 107 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 110 nanosieverts per hour
A South African Ministerial Determination for the procurement of twenty-five hundred megawatts of new nuclear capacity has been withdrawn to allow for further public consultation after legal challenges to the procedure for seeking public comments.