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The debate is won
13 December, 2004
The first of Foratom’s biannual European Nuclear Assembly meetings was held on 25-26 November 2004. Its subtitle, ‘Nuclear energy: An essential option for Europe’, gave a clue as to what conclusion the meeting would reach.

Energy minister throws down the gauntlet
09 December, 2004
UK energy minister Mike O’Brien has challenged the nuclear industry to come up with a serious commercial proposition for new nuclear build.

EC investigates UK over state aid
01 December, 2004

Cleaning up the use of nuclear clean-up funds
09 November, 2004
The European Commission has issued its first annual report on how decommissioning funds are managed. Eventually, the Commission aims to harmonise the methods of financing decommissioning in the European Union.

Funds destined for PBMR
08 November, 2004

UK goes back to the drawing board on waste
04 November, 2004
Against a backdrop of front-page pro-nuclear news stories, a UK minister has said that a solution to waste is a prerequisite to the future viability of nuclear.

Mountain peaks
03 November, 2004
In July, the US Appeals Court ruled that the 10,000-year licensing standard for the proposed Yucca Mountain repository was out of line with the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences. Now, a senior consultant has advised the academy that the USA is alone in considering such a compliance period. By Thecla Fabian

An artist's impression
29 October, 2004
British artist Nigel Green spent a year photographing in and around the Dungeness plant in the UK. His book ‘Dungeness’ contains many large-format colour images and small back and white ‘fragments’, as well as an essay by architecture critic Jonathan Glancey.

Rebels back down but BE teeters on the edge
25 October, 2004

Sellafield: EC versus UK
06 September, 2004

Coming of age
02 September, 2004
The seventh meeting on plant life management and plant licence extension (PLIM + PLEX) took place in New Orleans, Louisiana on 13-14 October 2003. It was the first PLIM + PLEX meeting held in the USA and over two-thirds of the 30 papers that were presented were from North America. By Garry Young and Tim Abney

Good is not good enough
01 September, 2004
WANO’s BGM in Berlin, Germany on 12-14 October 2003 brought together nearly 400 nuclear utility CEOs and other top brass. The basic message they went away with was that in the demanding business of nuclear power being good is not good enough. But worst of all is thinking that you’re good. That’s when things really start to go bad. By James Varley

Tucson times thirty
31 August, 2004
At the 30th Waste Management Symposium, there seemed to be a feeling that things were looking up for nuclear power around the world. By Shankar Menon

Tracking the technology
31 August, 2004
Compared to other enrichment processes, centrifuges are simpler to build, operate, and hide from detection. This makes them preferable for use in clandestine weapons programmes. By Jack Boureston

Increasing in importance
31 August, 2004
A number of disruptions to the uranium conversion services market at the end of last year upset the previously established balance of supply and demand, focusing the industry’s attention onto this often-overlooked yet essential component of the nuclear fuel cycle. By Julian Steyn and Thomas Meade

Rolling out the barrel
28 July, 2004
A drum containing Magnox fuel cladding was found to have been sealed for many years, allowing a build-up of potentially explosive gases which had to be safely released. By Phil Rhodes and Barry Vernon

Nirex and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority step forward
27 July, 2004

High-level waste of time
22 July, 2004
Germany’s nuclear purge will create a flow of decommissioning waste in the next decade. By Holger Bröskamp, Klaus-Jürgen Brammer and Reinhold Graf