3 Feb (NucNet): The Nuclear Energy Agency will hold a workshop on crisis communications of nuclear regulatory organisations (NROs) from 9-10 May 2012 in Madrid, Spain.
2 Feb (NucNet): Finnish nuclear power company Fennovoima has received commercial bids from Areva and Toshiba for the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear unit which is planned for construction in the Pyhäjoki municipality in northern Finland.
25 Jan (NucNet): Delta says it remains convinced of the need for new nuclear, despite a decision announced this week to delay plans for a new plant at the at the existing Borssele site by two to three years.
23 Jan (NucNet): Spain’s Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism has asked nuclear regulatory authority Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN) for its opinion on whether there is any obstacle, from a regulatory point of view, to the amendment of a ministerial order that limited the operation of the Santa Maria de Garoña nuclear plant to 6 July 2013.
15 Sept (NucNet): All eight of Spain’s commercially operational nuclear units have passed stress tests conducted at the request of the European Union following the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan earlier this year, Spanish nuclear regulatory authority Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN) said today.
29 Jun (NucNet): The UK government has launched a consultation on how to choose a potential deep geological disposal site for radioactive waste and has also provided an update on its disposal programme.
24 Jun (NucNet): France’s Areva group has announced the creation of a joint venture in China with the China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute (CNPRI), a subsidiary of existing Areva group partner CGNPC (China GuangDong Nuclear Power Company).
20 Jun (NucNet): Restarting a system to decontaminate highly-radioactive water accumulating at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant could be several days away.
