In Sarov, birthplace of the first Soviet nuclear weapons and now a major Russian nuclear development centre, a crocodile jumped from the 12th floor of a building. It survived and was later collected from an aquarium by its owner!
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Monday 13 August 2007
Bruce bouncing back
Canadian Bruce Power is buying new components from Babcock and Wilcox to refurbish some of its Bruce A nuclear reactors.
Bruce is bringing a number of its reactors back online to meet the growing energy demand in Canada.
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Bruce is bringing a number of its reactors back online to meet the growing energy demand in Canada.
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Bad news for Areva as Finnish reactor suffers more delays
In Finland nuclear giants Areva and Siemens are having problems building a new nuclear reactor according to schedule. The Olkiluto plant is looking like it will now be two years late. The delays are doing no favours to an industry trying to demonstrate that the long constructions delays that blighted nuclear build in the 70s and 80s are a thing of the past.
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Wednesday 8 August 2007
Plant to turn weapons plutonium into nuclear fuel for electricity being built
Construction has started on a plant in the US that will use plutonium from nuclear weapons to make fuel for US nuclear power plants. The amount of fuel to be made would produce enough electricity to supply a million homes for 50 years. The plutionium comes from an agreement between the US and Russia. A similar amount of Russian plutonium will be made into fuel for electricity generation too.
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US and India agree nuclear deal
India, long left out on its own in the nuclear energy world because of its failure to sign the international Non-Proliferation Treaty, has reached agreement with the US on co-operation over civil nuclear energy. India will be allowed to keep a strategic supply of fuel for its reactors and will be able to reprocess US nuclear fuel, monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The deal states that if for any reason the supply of used fuel from the US stops the US will help India find alternative sources of fuel from other countries.
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The deal states that if for any reason the supply of used fuel from the US stops the US will help India find alternative sources of fuel from other countries.
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