NRC gives staff 45 days to review nuclear safety recommendations

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given its technical staff 45 days to analyze a series of sweeping safety recommendations put forth by a federal task force last month...
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US makes nuclear fuel reserve available

The USA has formally announced the availability of a reserve stockpile of low-enriched uranium for use in nuclear fuel, derived from downblended surplus military material. Meanwhile, Belarus has suspended a program to exchange high enriched uranium fuel with the US...
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Fewer Contaminants Seen Escaping From Japan Nuclear Plant

The level of radioactive contaminants escaping from damaged reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi atomic energy complex has dropped in the last month, the plant's operator announced on Wednesday...
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NRC infighting goes nuclear

It's war at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
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Don't count out nuclear just yet

As harrowing as the Fukushima debacle has been, it hasn't dimmed the hopes of nuclear technologists, suppliers and manufacturers. In fact, it may even have helped them...
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Economics hinder US new build

The near-term prospects for an expansion in the use of nuclear energy in the USA "will be miserably hard and extremely challenged by economics," according to the head of Exelon, the country's largest nuclear utility...
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Regulatory shake-up in Japan

Japan is beginning work on a new regulatory structure for its nuclear energy industry with competence centralised in a body linked to the Ministry of the Environment...
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NRC sets hearing for new nuclear plant in Georgia

Federal regulators will soon consider whether to allow Southern Co. to construct what could become the nation's first new nuclear plant in a generation...
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IAEA Proposes Safety Checks of 10% of World's Reactors

The U.N. atomic agency would carry out international safety checks of ten percent of the world's reactor units over a three-year period, under a draft action plan to prevent any repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis...
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