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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.

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.

Inside Japanese outages
06 November, 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.

The copper controversy
06 November, 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.

Fuel vendor audits
06 October, 2010
The current goal of zero fuel failures requires meticulous quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) of fuel design, fabrication and fuel operation. Although fuel vendors are responsible for the fuel’s design and fabrication, utilities have the added responsibility of exercising QA over the design and fabrication of the fuel at the vendor’s facilities. By Alfred Strasser

The laser alternative
24 August, 2010
One laser, configured in two different ways, can perform two important decommissioning jobs: tube cutting for size reduction and concrete scabbling for removal of contaminated surface layers. Both operations can be conducted in a safe, remote and efficient manner. By Paul Hilton, Ali Khan and Colin Walters

Doosan & GE focus on nuclear turbines
20 July, 2010

NEI's 2009 load factor analysis is updated
12 July, 2010

Follow the jumbo jet
02 July, 2010
The US regulations that cover nuclear new-build no longer allow utilities to build plants first, and licence them later. But they still do not go far enough in specifying how those plants will be maintained for trouble-free operation. Nuclear power should look to the commercial airplane industry, where such systems have been working for more than 40 years. By J. K. August

Contract to implement improved metrology for portable high-purity germanium gamma detectors (lot 1) and portable UF 6 cylinder verification systems (lot 2), Luxemborg, (Deadline: 6 August 2010)
14 June, 2010

Figuring out Fordow
20 May, 2010
The revelation that Iran is building a new enrichment facility outside Qom was widely portrayed as proof of Tehran’s nuclear weapons programme. But, what is the plant’s capability and what does this mean? By Ivanka Barzashka and Ivan Oelrich

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

Armouring Armenians
17 May, 2010
The Middle East’s only operating commercial nuclear plant, Armenia NPP, has begun a programme to reduce worker doses. A new European Union-funded programme will also help. By Aida Avetisyan and Vovik Atoyan

India’s passive breeder
17 May, 2010
India’s Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has adapted its AHWR design, which features only passive safety features, to run on LEU-thorium MOX fuel. As a result of its fuel mix and fuel breeding properties, the 300MWe plant requires 42% less mined uranium per unit of energy produced than a modern high burnup PWR. By Ratan Sinha and Anil Kakodkar

Response to Lovins, December 2005
29 April, 2010
Amory Lovins (NEI Dec 05) has provided a politely nuanced but ultimately misleading article for your readers. He extols the virtues of small scale methods of generating power, and suggests that these are essentially in competition with large-scale base-load options, particularly the nuclear one he has been obsessively bucketing for 30 years.

Response to Hore-Lacy
29 April, 2010
Amory Lovins responds to Ian Hore-Lacy's response

Looking down the bore
25 March, 2010
Deep borehole waste disposition research has not progressed to demonstration. Fergus Gibb reviews the steps necessary before drilling can begin.

Deep borehole disposal (DBD) methods
25 March, 2010
Since DBD, or VDD (very deep disposal) has become a real possibility through the advances in drilling technology, research is being carried out in very few places. Nevertheless, it is regarded as an option in some countries. By Fergus Gibb



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