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Inside Japanese outages
21 December, 2010
Tadahisa Nagata of the Japan Nuclear Technology Institute and Toshihiro Okajima of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum respond to our query in August issue’s load factors article (pp28-33) about why the load factors for Japanese nuclear power plants are lower than those in the USA.

Rise of the radwaste depot
21 December, 2010
Increasing low-level waste disposition costs and pressure from government are forcing UK industry toward greater processing of radwaste; centralised services in this field offer economies of scale and other benefits. By David Lee

Russia reviews radwaste
21 December, 2010
Russia is preparing for a second reading of a new law on radioactive waste later this year. By Judith Perera

The copper controversy
21 December, 2010
Sweden’s spent fuel disposal concept is based on the idea that the copper waste canisters do not degrade for even hundreds of thousands of years. But a group of researchers has found evidence of copper corrosion, even in conditions without oxygen. A special workshop with an expert panel convened in November 2009 to try to resolve the issue.

Excavating Chooz A
21 December, 2010
Modern nuclear reactors are designed with decommissioning in mind. Earlier reactors were not, so a current industry challenge is to demonstrate that existing reactors can be decommissioned and decontaminated in a timely, cost effective and efficient way. Just such a test case is beginning in France, where, earlier this year, French utility EDF awarded Westinghouse a contract for decommissioning of the first of its fleet of 59 commercial PWRs. By Penny Hitchin

EDF to extend UK AGR life by five years; Heysham and Hartlepool are first winners
20 December, 2010

UK government proposes support for carbon price
20 December, 2010

Sellafield construction work, UK (Deadline: 22 February 2011)
20 December, 2010

I&C consultancy, USA (Deadline: 14 January 2011)
20 December, 2010

Nuclear power station construction work, Romania (Deadline: 17 January 2011)
20 December, 2010

Nuclear safety equipment, Poland (Deadline: 11 January 2011)
20 December, 2010

Nuclear materials transport planning, UK (Deadline: 15 January 2011)
20 December, 2010

Nuclear instrumentation systems, USA (Deadline: 10 January 2011)
20 December, 2010

US ready to sign 123 agreement with Russia
15 December, 2010

Areva eyes Atmea in Jordan
15 December, 2010

Alstom wins EUR 340 million EDF contract
15 December, 2010

O&G supplier buys in to nuclear
15 December, 2010

Areva UK seeks out talent, with great expectations
15 December, 2010

Kuwait invests $600 million in Areva
14 December, 2010



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