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Japan's Kansai Electric to restart Takahama 1
Japan's Kansai Electric Power Company has informed the Fukui prefectural government that it plans to restart unit 1 at its Takahama NPP in late July, followed by unit 2 reactor...
IAEA finds high level of safety in Netherlands
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) mission said the Government of the Netherlands and the national regulatory bodies...
IAEA concludes long-term operation safety review at Kozloduy NPP
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safety Aspects of Long Term Operation (SALTO) team of experts has completed a review of long term operational safety at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy NPP.
Polish regulators renew cooperation with US NRC
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA - Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki), have renewed their cooperation agreement for a further...
IAEA mission reviews Czech regulatory framework
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) mission said the Czech Republic is committed to maintaining and strengthening its...
Nuclear regulators to collaborate on SMRs
Members of the International Nuclear Regulators' Association (INRA) say they are committed to proactively collaborate on generic reactor design assessments and licensing and to...
Africa seeks to strengthen nuclear safeguards
The African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) has launched a five-year programme, which aims to strengthen nuclear material control measures in Africa. AFCONE said “Uplifting...
US National Lab uses virtual reality for radiation training
US company Teletrix has licensed technology developed by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to help with the training of radiological workers and radiological...
Egypt parliament approves bill to speed up work at El Dabaa NPP
Egypt's House of Representatives has approved government-drafted amendments to the 1976 law regulating the activities of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA). "The legislation...
Upgrade at Brookhaven National Lab increases actinium-225 production
Following recent upgrades, the medical isotope facilities at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is now producing actinium-225 (Ac-225) and...
US NRC proposes fining Urenco USA
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a $70,000 civil penalty for Urenco USA for two violations of agency requirements related to improperly implementing safety...
Rolls-Royce SMR progresses through generic design assessment
Rolls-Royce SMR Limited's 470 MWe small modular reactor (SMR) design has completed the first step of the UK's Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process and is expected to complete...
ThorCon to carry out a pre-licensing consultation for a 500 MW demonstration plant in Indonesia
US-based nuclear company ThorCon has signed an agreement with the Indonesia’s Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten) to officially start a safety, security, & safeguards...
Belgium’s IRE moves to 100% low-enriched uranium
Belgium’s Institute for Radioelements (IRE), a key producer of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) and iodine-131 (I-131) widely used in nuclear medicine, has complete conversion of its...
Japanese high court supports operation of Ikata NPP unit 3
Japan’s Hiroshima High Court high court has rejected a petition by local residents to halt the operation of unit 3 at Shikoku Electric Power Co’s Ikata NPP in Ehime Prefecture,...
NRC begins partial review of NuScale’s SMR
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said staff will begin reviewing most of NuScale Power’s application for standard design approval of the company’s 77 MWe/module small...
Polish and Canadian regulators strengthen co-operation
The Nuclear regulators of Poland and Canada signed a memorandum extending their existing supervisory cooperation on the sidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency conference...
IAEA task force reviews Fukushima water discharge plan
The International Atomic Energy (IAEA) Task Force established to monitor Japan’s plan to discharge treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP has completed its second regulatory...
MIT and co-researchers devise new tool for testing reactor components
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other institutions have developed a remote test that can produce key information about the condition of...
