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International concern at radioactive smuggling growing
30 November, 1998

Vendors’ views Framatome
01 October, 1998
The coming decade is a vital one for the nuclear power industry. With many old plants coming to the end of their operating lives, decisions will soon have to be made regarding what form of power generation will replace them. NEI asked the major vending companies to answer questions addressing the issues most likely to effect the industry’s future.

Vendors’ views ABB Atom
01 October, 1998
The coming decade is a vital one for the nuclear power industry. With many old plants coming to the end of their operating lives, decisions will soon have to be made regarding what form of power generation will replace them. NEI asked the major vending companies to answer questions addressing the issues most likely to effect the industry’s future.

Prize taken by FORCE
30 July, 1998

Material recycling – what’s the NORM to be?
30 June, 1998
The recycling and reuse of material arising from the decommissioning of nuclear facilities can significantly reduce the volumes to be disposed of as radioactive waste. Internationally accepted release levels for such material are necessary to be able to do this. This issue dovetails with the NORM question – what to do about “naturally occurring radioactive material” (NORM) which becomes concentrated in various non-nuclear industrial processes and which can have the same activity levels as the potentially reusable material from decommissioning, but occurs in much larger quantities.

Liability for all
31 March, 1998
The IAEA has recently increased the amount of insurance required for nuclear reactors and took other steps to strengthen the existing nuclear liability regime. This involved amending the Vienna Convention on civil liability for nuclear damage and adopting a new supplementary compensation convention that is designed to finally create an international liability regime that is acceptable to most countries, including the USA and non-nuclear states.

Inspection round-up
28 February, 1998

Will much change after the climate change conference?
01 February, 1998
The third conference on climate change, known as COP3*, held in Kyoto during December, achieved significant agreement on emission reduction targets, even for the main energy users of Japan, the USA and the EU. However, the question of how to achieve the targets through, for example, emission trading regimes, sanctions and a greater use of nuclear power, is to be left to later conferences.

Cleaning up the past:lessons from Eastern Europe
01 February, 1998
The ICEM* meetings, organised by ASME at venues outside the US, provide a global forum for discussing the problems of and sharing the lessons learnt from cleaning up environmental black spots, such as Chernobyl and the waste piles in the eastern part of Germany left over from uranium mining which the Wismut Corp is now cleaning up. There are many other smaller cases of contamination, also legacies of the old Soviet bloc, which are now being dealt with. The meeting also provides an opportunity to introduce some sensitive issues, such as the desirability of setting up regional repositories.

Transporting plutonium by air
01 January, 1998
As the use of mixed uranium/plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel grows and an international market develops, the issue of transporting plutonium is gaining public attention. It is opportune, therefore, to examine the regulatory situation governing the transport of civil plutonium by air and how it has evolved.

Khmelnitsky 2/Rovno 4 completion: a Ukrainian perspective
01 January, 1998
Government commitment to complete the Khmelnitsky 2 and Rovno 4 VVER-1000s remains firm.

Chernobyl Pledging Conference – private support needed
01 January, 1998