Japan
The full startup of the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant here will be postponed until December 2010 or even later due to technical problems. Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. has decided to postpone completion of the plant’s final commissioning test, which was scheduled for August, by at least 14 months.
Asahi Shimbun 31st Aug 2009 more >>
US
The so-called “nuclear renaissance” is finding few friends among state lawmakers in the United States. The nuclear power industry has been shut out across the board in 2009 in its efforts in all six states – ranging across the nation from Kentucky to Minnesota to Hawaii – where it sought to overturn what are either explicit or effectively bans on construction of new reactors, according to the nonprofit Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS).
Nuclear Power Daily 31st Aug 2009 more >>
