[ RadSafe ] Report: China picks possible site for Guangdong province's fourth nuclear power plant

[Sandy Perle]

Index:

Report: China picks possible site for fourth nuclear power plant
Ukrainian emergency ministry fires directors of Chernobyl site
New Iran atomic negotiator backs talks to solve row
Radiation Threat Identification System (RTIS) 
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Report: China picks possible site for Guangdong province's fourth 
nuclear power plant

BEIJING (AP) - China has picked a possible site for a new nuclear 
power plant meant to ease power shortages in its booming southern 
province of Guangdong, a government newspaper said Tuesday.

Construction is likely to begin in Lufeng, a town in eastern 
Guangdong, by the end of next year and the first phase should be 
finished by 2013, the China Daily said.

Construction also is being speeded up at Guangdong's third nuclear 
power plant in the city of Yangjiang, the newspaper said, citing 
executives of the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Co. Ltd.

China is suffering severe power shortages due to its booming economic 
growth. The problem is especially severe in Guangdong, the country's 
most populous province with more than 100 million people and the 
center for its export-driven manufacturing industries.

Power demand in Guangdong last year is believed to have outstripped 
generating capacity by about 10 percent, the China Daily said.

"We hope that increasing nuclear electricity output will help ease 
Guangdong's energy crisis," China Daily quoted Hu Guangyao, a 
Guangdong Nuclear Power executive, as saying.

Guangdong's two operating nuclear power plants at Day Bay and Ling'ao 
each has four 1-million-kilowatt turbines, the newspaper said.
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Ukrainian emergency ministry fires directors of Chernobyl nuclear 
site

KIEV, Ukraine (AP)- Ukraine's emergency ministry has fired the 
directors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, accusing them of 
failing to implement internationally funded programs aimed at 
securing the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, an official 
said Tuesday.

Tetyana Amosova, deputy emergency situations minister, said the 
plant's director Oleksdandr Smyshlaev and his associates were 
dismissed last week because four projects - including reinforcing a 
shelter protecting the burnt-out wreckage of Reactor No. 4, which 
exploded in 1986 - are between one and four years behind schedule.

Another official, Ihor Hramotkyn, was appointed director, Amosova 
said.

The disaster was the world's worst nuclear accident, spewing 
radiation over much of northern Europe.

Chernobyl's remaining three reactors were shuttered in 2000, and 
international funders are providing millions to help Ukraine deal 
with spent fuel and nuclear waste and other projects.
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New Iran atomic negotiator backs talks to solve row

TEHRAN, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Iran's new chief nuclear negotiator has 
said further talks can resolve its atomic standoff with the West, 
while insisting that Tehran will not give up its plans to develop a 
full nuclear fuel cycle.

"Iran deems it a principle to continue talks and it accepts 
negotiation as the right manner," Ali Larijani, installed as 
secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council on Monday, told 
the Sharq daily in an interview published on Tuesday.

European diplomats have expressed concern that Larijani, a 
conservative close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will 
adopt a tougher line on the nuclear issue than his predecessor Hassan 
Rohani.

Larijani takes over the nuclear portfolio with Iran in the 
international spotlight after removing U.N. seals at a nuclear 
facility and resuming uranium conversion -- a process which yields 
material that can be used to make atomic bombs.

Iran, which says its nuclear programme will only be used to generate 
electricity, rejected a resolution adopted by the International 
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors last week calling on 
it to halt all nuclear fuel work.

But Larijani said a solution to the dispute could be found.

"We can reach a conclusion with a win-win situation defined for both 
sides ... We should try to solve the problem in a friendly way and 
our objective is still preserving the fuel cycle," he said.

Iran angered the European Union and the United States by resuming 
uranium conversion at the Isfahan plant on Aug. 8 after rejecting an 
EU offer of political and economic incentives in return for giving up 
a large part of its atomic programme.

Iranian officials have said they will never suspend work at the 
Isfahan plant again and Tehran now wants to discuss resuming the most 
sensitive part of the nuclear fuel cycle -- uranium enrichment -- at 
its facility in Natanz.

"Natanz is a part of our fuel cycle and we insist on it. However, it 
should pass the channel of negotiations," Larijani said.

About 1,000 Iranian students gathered at the Isfahan nuclear plant on 
Tuesday to stage a noisy demonstration in support of Iran's nuclear 
programme.

The students linked arms outside the facility and read a statement 
condemning last week's IAEA resolution and calling on Iranian 
officials to push ahead with their atomic plans.

"The movement of Iranian students insists on a complete resumption of 
nuclear activities as we deem it impossible to bargain about," the 
statement said.
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Radiation Threat Identification System (RTIS) Offers Advanced 
Capabilities for Homeland Defense

BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative American 
Technology Inc. has designed an advanced radiological isotope 
identification system scheduled for field-testing in September. The 
Radiation Threat Identification System (RTIS) can identify trace 
levels of radiological materials. The RTIS offers much-needed 
advancements for a wide variety of homeland security applications 
such as port and border security and strategic asset protection

The identification of radiological materials is a substantial 
technological leap for port security and other homeland defense 
applications. Current systems only detect the presence of 
radiological materials and experience high false positive rates. That 
means benign items that naturally emit radioactivity -- including 
ceramic tile, granite, porcelain toilets, even bananas -- can set off 
the monitors, causing substantial impacts to the flow of goods and to 
port security. "With an accurate identification of the goods and the 
ability to differentiate between normally occurring radiological 
materials and hazardous materials, the RTIS system enables an 
efficient and effective means for port security," reports David 
Frank, president of IAT.

The sensors provided by the RTIS are rugged and can be deployed in 
aggressive environments. This allows for a distributed sensor system 
and increased deployment areas in addition to the conventional 
radiation portal monitor positions. Sensors can be deployed in arrays 
for both covert and visible installations. This broad sensor 
deployment capability provides more exposure time for detection and 
identification of dangerous materials such as Highly Enriched Uranium 
(HEU).

The control system for the RTIS provides a plug-and-play environment 
for the radiation sensors and a modular expansion capability to 
address small-, medium- and large-scale configurations. Additional 
sensors are planned for chemical, biological and remote explosives 
detection that can be deployed on the same control system.

"The real power of the distributed sensor system from Innovative 
American Technology is the revolutionary pattern recognition 
capability. This patented artificial intelligence system can learn 
the spectroscopic signature of radiation, chemical, biological and 
explosive materials for rapid recognition of trace levels," says Dr. 
John Caulfield, chief technology officer of IAT.

The RTIS is scheduled for field-testing in September and to be 
offered for improved support of homeland defense, military and 
commercial applications in the first quarter of 2006. According to 
the DHS Budget-In-Brief, the administration requested a total of 
$49.9 billion for homeland security across the entire federal 
government in GFY 2006.

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