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Poland returns to nuclear power
25 July, 2010
An airplane crash in April took the lives of 100 Polish politicians, including the Solidarity co-founder and Polish president Lech Kaczynski. In 2009, Poland announced plans to build Zarnowiec 2. Construction of Poland’s first nuclear reactor at Zarnowiec was stopped in 1989, partly by the power of Poland’s dominant coal industry, expressed through its famous Solidarity movement. By Dariusz Witold Kulczynski.

Work begins at Hinkley Point C
02 July, 2010

Westinghouse offers backing but no more money to Sheffield Forgemasters
02 July, 2010

EDF reorganises to fight exposure
20 May, 2010
In 2003, French nuclear utility EDF launched a project called source term reduction that splits up the large organization into different research and engineering centres to tackle radiation exposure in complementary projects. This paper describes the main R&D developments, and the compensatory actions they are planning. By Gilles Ranchoux, Stéphane Taunier, Frédéric Gressier, Stéphanie Leclercq, Florence Carrette, Luc Guinard and Bernard Jeannin

Thinking outside the cage
25 March, 2010
A concrete backfill with a water barrier has been developed to stabilise legacy waste packages stored in the 1960s-70s at the Richard radioactive waste repository in a former Czech limestone mine. The barrier, a so-called hydraulic cage, provides an alternative pathway for groundwater to prevent the build up of a pressure gradient across the concreted waste body, and can be used even in saturated rock. The design could be applied to other waste repositories worldwide. By Bernt Haverkamp, Miroslav Kucerka and Enrique Biurrun

Learning from Phénix
08 January, 2010
After 35 years of operation, the French fast reactor Phénix shut down in October 2009. But it still has a role to play in shaping the design of future sodium fast reactors. EDF has outlined its requirements for a commercial SFR, and areas where further R&D is needed. By Caroline Peachey