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German nuclear storage site deemed unsafeBerlin (AFP) Jan 15, 2010 German radiation protection officials said Friday that all 126,000 barrels of nuclear waste stored since the 1970s in an unstable and leaking former salt mine would have to be removed as soon as possible. "This is the best option for dealing with the radioactive waste stored there," said Wolfram Koenig, head of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), which made the recommendation ... read more |
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Sofia (AFP) Jan 13, 2010One of two reactors at Bulgaria's nuclear plant at Kozloduy has been plugged back into the electricity grid after being shut down for maintenance last week, the plant's operators said Wednesday. During the planned repair work on the 1,000-megawatt reactor, a faulty valve regulating steam into the reactor turbine was replaced, the plant's operators said in a statement. Three imilar valves ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 The German government is bickering over how many nuclear power plants it should save from closure. When Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union was re-elected in a team with the pro-business Free Democratic Party in September 2009, it was widely believed that nuclear would get a quick boost. Both parties had campaigned in favor of nuclear power, arguin ... more 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 11, 2010The EU's new foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, distanced herself Monday from her anti-nuclear past, as European lawmakers grilled her about her suitability for the post. "The relevance of the 1970s is not the relevance of 2010," she told deputies in Brussels. "I'm not a member of CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) and have not been a member of CND for 28 or 29 years. "I do not ... more |
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Bloomington IN (SPX) Jan 12, 2010Medical physicists from around the world converged at the ProCure Training and Development Center (TDC) last week for intense training in the physics of protons and proton therapy, an alternative to X-ray radiation for cancer treatment that spares healthy tissue and results in far fewer short- and long-term treatment side effects. The five-day graduate training course, presented by Harvard ... more 
New York NY (SPX) Jan 12, 2010Nuclear Innovation North America has responded in a legal filing to the lawsuit CPS Energy filed on Sunday, December 6, 2009. "NINA's goal is to work with our partners to find mutually agreeable solutions, not to file lawsuits against them," said Steve Winn, NINA Chief Executive Officer. "That said, the CPS Energy lawsuit against NINA requires a legal response and we filed our response. Ou ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2010The HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is awarding nine contracts for the advanced research and development of more effective tests and devices to determine the level of radiation a person has absorbed after a nuclear or radiological incident. The contracts total $35 million for the initial phase and up to $400 million over five years. The contracts are awar ... more |
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