British Energy
The country’s largest electricity generating company was thrown into turmoil yesterday after it was forced to close two of its nuclear power plants. Nearly £500 million was wiped from the value of British Energy amid fears that the group will now miss full-year output targets just two months after Bill Coley, the chief executive, insisted that performance was on an “improving trend”.
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THORP
The Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Sellafield is set to restart full commercial operations in the new year, almost three years after it was closed following a radioactive leak. The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, or Thorp, at the nuclear complex in west Cumbria, is a large source of income for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the government body that owns the site. The plant recycles spent fuel from reactors by dissolving it in nitric acid and removing the waste, leaving uranium and plutonium that can be made into fresh fuel.
FT 23rd Oct 2007 more >>
Submarines
Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarines have been involved in more than 200 radiological incidents at a single base in the past five years, according to a report released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Times 23rd Oct 2007 more >>
The crew of a US nuclear submarine failed to carry out daily reactor safety checks for a month, then forged records to cover up the blunder, it emerged today.
Belfast Telegraph 22nd Oct 2007 more >>
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Trident
Talk by Rob Edwards on the environmental impact of nuclear weapons, and some pointers to what the Scottish Government may be able to do to block Westminster’s plans to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system.
Rob Edwards 22nd Oct 2007 more >>
Letters: it is hard to see how any government of Scotland would not find the presence of nuclear weapons in Scottish waters and on Scottish soil of intense and dreadful interest to its citizens.
Herald 23rd Oct 2007 more >>
Iran
Iran’s new chief nuclear negotiator is to meet EU envoy Javier Solana in Rome as diplomats try to detect any hardening in Tehran’s policy.
BBC 23rd Oct 2007 more >>
Saeed Jalili, who replaced Ali Larijani as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator at the weekend, is a man of strong moral views who believes spiritual values should inform political actions. His absolute conviction of the rightness of Iran’s cause, and his loyalty to his old friend, Iran’s hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, may make him an awkward interlocutor when nuclear talks with the European Union resume in Rome today.
Guardian 23rd Oct 2007 more >>
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