Iran
GEORGE Bush warned last night that a nuclear-armed Iran could trigger World War Three.
The Sun 18th Oct 2007 more >>
Reuters 17th Oct 2007 more >>
Middle East
Egypt has sent a high-level protest to dozens of European nations expressing “astonishment and regret” at their refusal to endorse Cairo’s call for a Middle East nuclear free zone at a conference last month.
Guardian website 18th Oct 2007 more >>
Syria
Syria denied today reports that an Israeli air strike in the northeast of the country last month had targeted a nuclear site, saying there was no such thing on its soil.
Interactive Investor 17th Oct 2007 more >>
Guardian website 17th Oct 2007 more >>
US
Nuclear regulators this week are conducting a special inspection of recently identified damage on steamline pipes at a power station owned by electric utility Detroit Edison. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it is inspecting the Fermi Nuclear Power Station in Newport, Mich., after plant personnel last week discovered “a small unexpected hole and several indentations on steamline pipes” during a refueling outage.
Interactive Investor 18th Oct 2007 more >>
All economic energy sources, including nuclear, will be needed in the period to 2030 according to a committee representing the oil and gas industry.
World Nuclear News 17th Oct 2007 more >>
Italy
Italy’s anti-mafia squad has launched an official investigation into allegations of illegal trafficking and disposal of nuclear waste — as well as clandestine production of plutonium — by managers of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA). Eight former employees of ENEA’s Trisaia research centre in the southern town of Rotondella, and two alleged members of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, are under suspicion following a decade-long inquiry. Trisaia is now a multidisciplinary research centre, but in the 1970s and 1980s it specialized in nuclear waste processing and storage.
Nature 17th Oct 2007 more >>
Bulgaria
RWE has made a non-binding offer for a 49 pct stake in a project to build a nuclear reactor at Belene in Bulgaria.
Interactive Investor 17th Oct 2007 more >>
Scotland
The Scottish Government’s submission to the nuclear power consultation has rejected new nuclear reactors.
The Engineer 17th Oct 2007 more >>
New nukes
AN INTERACTIVE session addressing the contentious issue of nuclear power will be held in Kendal next week. South Lakeland Friends of the Earth would like to invite members of the public to come along and have all their questions answered by three experts in renewable energy. Dr Stuart Parkinson, director of Scientists for Global Responsibility, Jean McSorley, a nuclear advisor for Greenpeace, and Neil Crumpton, a nuclear campaigner for Friends of the Earth, will speak on “Nuclear Power: Part of the solution or part of the problem?” and the public will be given the opportunity to ask questions.
Westmorland Gazette 17th Oct 2007 more >>
Dounreay
Strike action by workers at the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness has been averted after agreement was reached over a pay deal.
BBC 17th Oct 2007 more >>
John O Groat Journal 17th Oct 2007 more >>
RADIATION surveyors have recovered the 100th Dounreay fuel particle to end up on the nearby public beach at Sandside. The hot-spot was found buried in sand in the middle of the beach last Thursday afternoon. Tests at the site revealed it contained 210,000 becquerels (Bq) of radioactivity – one of the highest counts since the checks at Sandside began 23 years ago. A further particle was unearthed during a scan on Saturday afternoon. At 18,000 Bq, it was found to be one of the least active. Monitoring teams, who deploy a specialist tracked detection vehicle on the beach, have now removed 101 of the tiny slithers of metallic reactor fuel reprocessed at Dounreay.
John O Groat Journal 17th Oct 2007 more >>
Hartlepool
AN MP has backed plans to build a new nuclear power station in Hartlepool. Town MP Iain Wright is in favour of a nuclear new-build on the site of Hartlepool Power Station. The MP’s stance comes as the power station bids to build a new nuclear site to replace the existing power station when it is decomissioned in 2014.
Hartlepool Mail 16th Oct 2007 more >>
