Nuclear News Roundup May 05, 2024
EDF secures 'green' financing for extended operation of reactors world-nuclear-news.org
May 2024
Geiger Readings for May 05, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 81 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Geiger Readings for May 04, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1384 - Cameco Is Reporting Losses For 2023
Tim Gitzel is the CEO of Cameco, the Canadian nuclear fuel company. He said that the results for the first quarter of 2024 included losses of five million dollars. The losses were driven by normal quarterly variations, coupled with costs related to its acquisition last year of Westinghouse.
Nuclear News Roundup May 03, 2024
Estonia drafts nuclear resolution power-technology.com
Geiger Readings for May 03, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 123 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1383 - Holtec International Is Spawning A Subsidiary To Provide Nuclear Services
Holtec International has established a wholly-owned subsidiary aiming to “energize the presently placid business sector of modification and maintenance”, with the initial project being the recommissioning of the Palisades nuclear power plant.
Geiger Readings for May 02, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 108 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 86 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1382 - ARC Clean Technologies Is Collaborating With Two Other Companies To Advance Deployment Of The ARC-100 SMR
A trilateral collaboration agreement has just been signed between Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, ARC Clean Technology and New Brunswick Power with the goal of establishing teaming agreements for global small modular reactor (SMR) fleet deployment. This agreement follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) last November.
Nuclear News Roundup May 01, 2024
Iran reaffirms commitment to peaceful nuclear program English.almayadeen.net
Geiger Readings for May 01, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 123 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 859 - U.S. Senator Markley Demands That Any Deal Between Saudi Arabia and Israel Contain Proliferation Safeguards
On Wednesday, a Democratic U.S. senator urged President Joe Biden to include strict nonproliferation safeguards in any nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia that might be part of a potential normalization of relations agreement brokered by the U.S. between the Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Nuclear News Roundup April 30, 2024
Clean-up completed of pioneering ORNL site reactor world-nuclear-news.org
Geiger Readings for April 30, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 79 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 124 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 127 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1381 - World Nuclear Association Conference Discusses Nuclear Power And Grid Needs - Part 2 of 2 Parts
Part 2 of 2 Parts
Geiger Readings for April 29, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 59 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1380 - World Nuclear Association Conference Discusses Nuclear Power And Grid Needs - Part 1 of 2 Parts
Part 1 of 2 Parts
Massive growth is expected in the global demand for electricity. If it materializes it will require an expansion of both generation and the transmission systems, speakers at a side event at the World Energy Congress 2024 agreed. They said that nuclear power will play an important role in ensuring the resilience of the future global electrical system.