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Fire briefly raises alert at Neb. nuclear plant
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Fire briefly raises alert at Neb. nuclear plant
Reactor closed in Hungary nuclear plant fire
Spending in Energy Proposal Boosted
Cheney, GAO still battle over energy task force
Russia begins test of new super-quiet nuclear sub
UK announces energy review, including nuclear
Pakistan eyeing 2 new nuclear power plants: Musharraf
Nuclear Safety Commission to revamp quake-proof guidelines
Contaminated Uranium Threat Widens
MDS Nordion - $20 Million to Build New Commercial Cyclotron
Malfunctions in BNFL causing delay in reprocessing for Japan
Entergy says Arkansas nuke license extended
No nukes, smoking or guns in FTSE ethical indices
Green group says wins UK concession on nuke plant
Siemens Showcases Best Practice Integration Technologies
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Fire briefly raises alert at Neb. nuclear plant
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 (Reuters) - A transformer fire at a
Nebraska nuclear power plant caused a brief scare on Monday,
raising a safety alert when it knocked out power to the plant's
offices.
Despite the outage, there were no injuries or threat of releasing
radioactivity and the fire was quickly extinguished, officials at the
781 megawatt Cooper Nuclear Station said.
The alert, the second-lowest of a four-level safety scale, signals the
actual or potential for "substantial degradation of the safety of a
nuclear plant," according to the safety code used at the nation's
nuclear power facilities.
Two or three such alerts are typically issued a year.
"A piece of electrical equipment that failed has the potential to
affect safety equipment, but in fact no safety equipment was
affected," said Breck Henderson, a spokesman for the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC), the watchdog of the U.S. nuclear
industry.
Glenn Troester, a spokesman for plant owner and operator
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), said a transformer caught
fire in the plant's switch yard at about 4:45 a.m. CDT (5:45 EDT),
knocking out one of two recirculation pumps.
Recirculation pumps, which keep cooling water recirculating
throughout the reactor, are part of the back-up safety system.
"The fire took out power to our offices and training rooms, but
power to the plant is unaffected," Troester said.
The fire was put out in 10 minutes and the alert was lifted at 9:08
CDT (10:08 EDT) today, Troester said.
The plant was reduced from full power to 72 percent of its
generating capacity while the company investigates the cause of
the fire, he said.
Cooper Nuclear Station, a boiling water reactor in Brownville,
Nebraska, is the state's biggest power plant.
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Reactor closed in Hungary nuclear plant fire
BUDAPEST, June 22 (Reuters) - Hungary's Paksi Atomeromu Rt
nuclear plant shut down its second reactor on Friday due to a
cable fire that was quickly extinguished, it said in a staement.
It said the fire broke out at 0930 GMT in the second reactor but
was put out by an automatic fire extinguisher system.
"Such a cable fire has never happened in the Paks nuclear plant
over the plant's 19 years of operation," the statement said.
"The reactor will be restarted after the faulty cables have been
replaced and checks have been carried out, which will probably
take several days."
It said the fire was preliminarily classified as "zero" grade on the
seven-grade international nuclear event scale.
Paks has four reactors. It is Hungary's only nuclear plant,
generating about 40 percent of the country's electricity needs.
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Spending in Energy Proposal Boosted
WASHINGTON (AP) - A House committee voted Monday to beef
up plans for spending on renewable energy and nuclear waste
cleanup as lawmakers demonstrated anew their sensitivity to the
energy issue this year.
The increases were included in a $23.7 billion measure financing
energy and water programs that the House Appropriations
Committee approved by a voice vote.
The measure also included almost $4.5 billion for hundreds of
dredging, beach restoration and other Army Corps of Engineers
water projects, which are big favorites with lawmakers because of
the spending they bring their districts.
The bill, covering fiscal 2002, was approved with little debate.
Democrats said they might offer amendments on electricity price
caps and other energy issues when the measure reaches the full
House, perhaps later this week.
Overall, the measure would provide $18.7 billion for the Energy
Department, $641 million more than President Bush requested and
$444 million more than this year.
Spending on solar, geothermal and other forms of renewable
energy would grow to $377 million, $100 million more than Bush
sought and $1 million more than this year. Money for nuclear
cleanups and managing nuclear waste, mostly for the Energy
Department's nuclear weapons work, would exceed $7 billion, $699
million over Bush's proposal and $253 million over this year.
Programs aimed at preventing the spread of Russia's nuclear
arsenal to other countries and terrorist groups would get $544
million, $87 million more than Bush requested and $86 million
above this year's figure.
The Senate has yet to write its version of the bill.
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Cheney, GAO still battle over energy task force
WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney
continued to be locked in a battle with the General Accounting
Office over the activities of a White House energy task force.
Cheney spokesman Juleanna Glover Weiss said late on Monday
that the vice president's office provided the GAO, which is the
investigative arm of Congress, with 77 pages of documents last
Thursday that that were "a financial account of the task force
activities."
However, Cheney's office still refuses to meet the GAO request to
turn over the names of the people who met with the task force."
"We're still talking to GAO about their request for that," Weiss
said.
The White House task force that was headed by Cheney met with
officials from the oil, natural gas, electric, and nuclear industries,
among others, in developing the Bush administration's new national
energy plan unveiled last month.
At the request of several Democratic lawmakers, GAO is trying to
establish who met with the White House panel and how much
money was spent by the task force.
The White House has refused to provide the list of names and has
questioned the authority of the GAO to even investigate the task
force.
In a letter Friday to David Addington, the vice president's counsel,
the GAO said a month had lapsed since the agency's first request
for facts about the energy task force's activities and the information
must be "provided immediately."
"We trust that the Office of the Vice President will proceed
expeditiously to respond to our existing and future access requests
on this review, as well as allowing us to interview appropriate
officials," wrote GAO general counsel Anthony Gamboa.
Weiss said the documents from the vice president's office sent on
Thursday to GAO must have crossed in the mail with the agency's
letter sent to Cheney's office on Friday.
Nonetheless, the GAO warned that if the White House does not
provide timely access to the information requested, which
presumably includes the list of names, the agency is prepared to
issue a demand letter.
Under the law, if the White House does not respond to such a
demand letter within 20 days, the GAO could bring a civil action to
compel a response.
Democratic Reps. John Dingell of Michigan and Henry Waxman of
California asked the GAO in April to investigate the task force's
members and proceedings.
"It is past time for the American people to find out what went on in
Cheney's energy task force," Dingell said on Monday. "What are
they hiding?"
"The Vice President should stop stonewalling and start cooperating
with GAO's investigation," Waxman also said Monday.
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Russia begins test of new super-quiet nuclear sub
MOSCOW, June 22 (Reuters) - Russia has begun testing a new
super-quiet, nuclear-powered attack submarine, the navy
commander was quoted as saying on Friday.
Vladimir Kuroyedov told Interfax news agency the new sub, the
Severodvinsk, was being tested at sea but was not yet complete.
"Even NATO says this boat beats the newest Western subs in
most measures, including noise level," he said.
He added that the submarine would still need additional financing.
Russia's massive Cold War-era nuclear submarine-building
programme ground to a virtual halt in the 1990s when funding dried
up. Several of the huge vessels, costing billions of dollars, remain
incomplete.
One of Russia's newest submarines, the Kursk, sank last year
killing all 118 crew members on board.
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UK announces energy review, including nuclear
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair announced a top-to-
bottom review of Britain's energy needs on Monday that will include
a look at the future for nuclear power.
Blair, in a written answer to parliament, said the review would look
at tackling global warming and ensuring "secure, diverse and
reliable energy supplies at a competitive price."
A review group will report by the year-end.
Energy minister Brian Wilson, who will chair the group, said: "The
review will consider the role of coal, gas, oil and renewables in our
future energy balance as well as combined heat and power and the
enhancement of energy efficiency.
"The review will also need to consider what, if any, role the nuclear
industry should play in meeting the environmental and security of
supply objectives."
Just two days before he was swept back to power at a June 7
election, Blair said he had no plans to increase Britain's nuclear
power capability.
His Labor Party's election manifesto was slightly more opaque,
saying coal and nuclear energy "currently play important roles in
ensuring diversity in our sources of electricity generation."
Speculation has been rife that the review, which will be conducted
by the Performance and Innovation Unit which reports direct to
Blair, will sanction an extension of nuclear power.
Experts say Britain will become a net importer of oil and gas in the
future. The government's investment in renewable energy sources --
solar, wind power and the like -- is unlikely to fill the gap.
Nuclear power stations generate around 30 percent of Britain's
electricity. Renewables currently meet less than 3 percent of
electricity demand.
"In future we expect to become increasingly dependent on imports
of fuel and particularly gas which could eventually become a
dominant source of our supplies," Wilson said in a statement.
"And in the longer term we will need to reduce our carbon
emissions further in order to play our part in meeting the challenge
of global warming."
Britain's newest nuclear power station is Sizewell B which was
commissioned by British Energy in 1995.
British Nuclear Fuels owns the country's oldest power stations and
has already started to shut them down. All are due to close by
2021.
Laying out its legislative plans last week, the government said it
wanted to cut Britain's greenhouse gas emissions by 23 percent
below 1990 levels by 2010, almost double the UK's target under the
Kyoto Protocol of a 12.5 percent reduction below 1990 levels by
2008-2012.
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Pakistan eyeing 2 new nuclear power plants: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, June 25 (Kyodo) - Pakistan's military ruler Gen.
Pervez Musharraf said Monday his government is considering
building two new nuclear power plants at the sites of two already
existing ones to meet the country's demand for electricity.
Musharraf made the remarks at a workshop organized by Pakistan
Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).
Pakistan is already operating two nuclear power plants -- an aging
one at Karachi on the Arabian Sea coast and a new one at
Chashma in the Mianwali district of Punjab Province.
The 137-megawatt Karachi Nuclear Power Plant was supplied by
Canada in 1972 but was overhauled in the mid-1990s, while the 300-
megawatt Chashma Nuclear Power Plant supplied by China went
into operation earlier this year.
Former PAEC chairman Ishfaq Ahmad had announced shortly
before his retirement in April this year that Pakistan would set up a
600-megawatt nuclear power plant at Chashma with Chinese
assistance.
But Musharraf's remarks were the first word of plans for yet another
power plant at Karachi.
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Nuclear Safety Commission to revamp quake-proof guidelines
TOKYO, June 25 (Kyodo) - The Nuclear Safety Commission on
Monday launched a first thorough review of the nation's safety
guidelines on the earthquake resistance of nuclear power plants
that would pave the way for the plants' flexible construction.
The guidelines established in 1978, based on the principle that
nuclear facilities should be built on solid bedrock, will be revamped
due to recent technological advances that enable constructions to
tolerate earthquakes by absorbing their shock waves, government
officials said.
The rapid scientific development on quake predictions since the
1995 Great Hanshin earthquake that hit Kobe and the vicinity in
western Japan will also be taken into account, they said.
An expert panel under the commission will soon start discussions
on how to make the guidelines reflect scientific and technological
development and is expected to report to the commission more
than a year later, the officials said.
Following the discussions, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry will study ways to incorporate the new guidelines into
specific construction standards and whether to adopt them for
safety checks of existing nuclear plants, they said.
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Contaminated Uranium Threat Widens
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Thousands more workers than first
thought could face serious health threats from exposure to
plutonium and other highly radioactive matter that fouled a large
amount of uranium recycled by U.S. nuclear weapons programs, a
published report says.
>From 1952 until 1999, when the shipments ended because of the
contamination threat, vast quantities of recycled uranium were
shipped worldwide.
New government studies, reviewed by USA Today and reported in
Monday's editions, found that the recycling program yielded
250,000 tons of tainted uranium, or about twice as much as earlier
estimated. The highly radioactive material was handled at about 10
times the number of sites previously revealed and reportedly
reached more than 100 federal plants, private manufacturers and
universities.
``This stuff circulated much more widely than we'd thought,'' said
Robert Alvarez, an official at the Energy Department when the new
studies were started in 1999.
USA Today said the latest studies suggest that thousands more
workers than expected might have unwittingly faced radiation risks
beyond those associated with normal uranium. That exposure
could significantly increase their odds of developing cancer and
other diseases.
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MDS Nordion - $20 Million to Build New Commercial Cyclotron
TORONTO, June 24 /PRNewswire/ - New Facility Essential to
Meet Growing Market Demand for Medical Isotopes Toronto,
Ontario, Canada - MDS Nordion, the world leader in the production
of medical radioisotopes, announced that it is investing $20 million
to build a new commercial cyclotron in Vancouver, British
Columbia. The addition of a fourth commercial cyclotron secures
MDS Nordion's capability to meet increasing demand for diagnostic
and therapeutic radioisotopes used daily around the world.
The new cyclotron, which will double MDS Nordion's current
production capacity at the Vancouver site, will be ready for
production in January 2003. This significant increase reinforces
MDS Nordion's ability to serve radioisotope users including
radiopharmaceutical producers, hospitals and clinics worldwide.
"This essential investment demonstrates our ongoing commitment
to nuclear medicine," said Iain Trevena, Senior Vice-President,
Nuclear Medicine at MDS Nordion. "Our new cyclotron is critical to
secure ongoing and reliable worldwide supply for vital medical
isotopes."
In particular, MDS Nordion's cyclotron will help meet growing
demand for the radioisotopes iodine-123 and palladium-103. MDS
Nordion is the largest commercial producer of iodine-123 in North
America and a major supplier to independent researchers. MDS
Nordion is also the leading commercial supplier of palladium-103 to
manufacturers of prostate seed implants.
Iodine-123 is primarily used in the diagnosis of thyroid conditions
such as cancer and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's
and Parkinson's disease. Palladium-103 is used in treatment of
prostate cancer, the most common form of cancer in men, affecting
over 200,000 men in Canada and the United States each year.
"The medical community relies on MDS Nordion's experience in
producing radioisotopes for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of
patients with cancer, and also cardiac and other disease," said Dr.
Sandy McEwan, Senior Specialist, Nuclear Medicine, Department
of Oncologic Imaging at the Cross Cancer Institute, a leading
Canadian institution for cancer therapy and research. "The
increased supply of iodine-123 and other necessary radioisotopes
will improve the care we can give to our patients."
MDS Nordion supplies over two-thirds of the world's reactor-
produced isotopes and a wide variety of cyclotron-produced
isotopes used in nuclear medicine procedures. It is estimated that
nearly 20 million nuclear medicine procedures are conducted
worldwide each year.
MDS Nordion currently operates two commercial cyclotrons, also
known as particle accelerators, at the TRIUMF site located on the
University of British Columbia campus, and a third in Fleurus,
Belgium. TRIUMF is Canada's centre of excellence for subatomic
physics research.
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Malfunctions in BNFL causing delay in reprocessing for Japan
LONDON, June 24 (Kyodo) - Malfunctions at a reprocessing facility
of British Nuclear Fuels PLC (BNFL) has caused delays in the
reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel sent from Japan, a British
antinuclear civic group said Sunday.
According to CORE, operation capabilities of a reprocessing facility
in Sellafield, central Britain, have declined due to recent
malfunctions.
As a result, the completion for the reprocessing of spent nuclear
fuel from Japanese power companies may be delayed eight to 10
years more than originally scheduled, the group said.
Such delays would affect Japan's ''pluthermal'' project which
involves the use of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.
MOX fuel is made by mixing uranium with plutonium extracted from
spent nuclear fuel. The Japanese government and power
companies such as Tokyo Electric Power Co. plan to use MOX fuel
in light-water reactors.
The BNFL has a contractual agreement with Japan to reprocess
spent nuclear fuel produced from nuclear power plants in Japan to
produce MOX fuel.
The BNFL has asked Japan to extend the completion date of its
contract one year beyond the original 2004, the group said.
However, the group said that the malfunction of the facility is
serious and that the completion of the reprocessing operation for
Japan could be delayed to 2012 or 2015.
The British government's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate made
general admissions that the BNFL facility had caused problems,
the group said.
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Entergy says Arkansas nuke license extended
In story headlined "Entergy says Arkansas nuke license extended
to 2034," please read in fifth paragraph "...Arkansas 2 is licensed
to operate into 2018," instead of Arkansas 2 is licensed to operate
into 2020. Correction is from the source.
A corrected version follows.
NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters) - Entergy Nuclear said Thursday
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has extended the
operating license to the year 2034 at the 836-megawatt (MW)
Arkansas nuclear power unit 1 in Arkansas.
Arkansas 1, in Russellville, Ark., had originally been licensed to
operate into 2014, Entergy said in a statement.
"The renewed operating license gives Entergy the option to operate
the unit 20 years beyond its original 40-year license period," the
company said.
An Entergy spokeswoman said the company has notified the NRC
it intends to apply in 2003 for an extension of the operating license
for the adjoining 858-MW Unit 2.
Currently, Arkansas 2 is licensed to operate into 2018.
Entergy said the Arkansas 1 license renewal was the third nuclear
plant license renewal application ever considered by the NRC. The
application process was completed in just under 17 months.
Arkansas 1 began commercial operation in 1974, while Arkansas 2
began commercial operation in 1980.
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No nukes, smoking or guns in FTSE ethical indices
LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) - Tobacco, arms and nuclear power
firms will be excluded from the FTSE ethical investment indices
which go live next month, the stock market index compiler said on
Thursday.
The new FTSE4Good index series will provide benchmarks for
"socially responsible investments" (SRI) and take into account
social, environmental and ethical issues.
FTSE said its advisers making the rules had decided to leave out
tobacco producers, manufacturers of weapons systems and
owners or operators of nuclear power stations after a survey of
financial and investment markets found widespread international
support for disqualifying them.
Constituents will be chosen by assessing their achievements in
working for environmental sustainability, "developing positive
relationships with stakeholders" and support for human rights.
But FTSE said the criteria were not set in stone and index rules
could change as socially responsible investment evolved and more
information became available about the socially responsible
performance of companies.
"I believe FTSE4Good will increase the levels of socially
responsible investment and provide a platform for further debate and
change," said FTSE Chief Executive Mark Makepeace.
INDICES GO LIVE IN JULY
The indices will cover companies in Britain, developed Europe as a
whole, the United States and the developed world.
Members of the British and European indices will be announced on
July 10 and the benchmarks will go live on July 31.
The U.S. and Global indices are expected to start by the end of the
year.
The index licence fees are to be donated to the United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF), which was represented on the advisory
committee with fund managers, academics and investment banks --
in their personal capacities.
The indices have been developed with the Ethical Investment
Research Service (EIRIS), which provides research to fund
managers and charities on the ethical performance of companies.
FTSE is co-owned by the London Stock Exchange and Pearson
Plc's Financial Times newspaper.
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Green group says wins UK concession on nuke plant
LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) - Environmental pressure group
Friends of the Earth said on Thursday the British government had
conceded in part to a legal challenge against plans by state-owned
British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) to start up operations at a nuclear
fuel plant.
"The government has conceded a key part of the legal challenge
over plans by BNFL to start operations at the Sellafield Mixed
Oxide fuel plant," Friends of the Earth's Mark Johnston told
Reuters.
The group took the government to court last month arguing the
government was acting unlawfully firstly in not allowing the 482
million pound construction cost of the Sellafield Mox Plant (SMP)
to be taken into account when its economic viability is assessed
and secondly in not allowing comment on an independent report by
consultants Arthur D Little on the plant's viability.
Johnston said the treasury's solicitor on Thursday told Friends of
the Earth the Arthur D Little report will be published and four weeks
set aside for comment.
But not everything in the report will be made public. Deletions will
cover information which "cause unreasonable damage to BNFL's
commercial operations or to the economic case for the Mox plant
itself."
Friends of the Earth's legal adviser Peter Roderick said it was
"startling" the government thought it proper to exclude information
from public scrutiny that might expose the lack of a sound
economic case for the plant.
"We will be going through this report with a fine tooth comb to
ensure that all the information the public needs for an informed
debate is included," he said in a statement.
The controversial Sellafiel Mox Plant has lain idle since its
completion in 1997 as regulatory approval to start up has been
witheld over fears there are not enough customers for the fuel, a
combination of plutonium and uranium oxides.
Before it is allowed to start operations the plant has to pass a test
of justification required by European law, proving the benefits of a
practice involving ionising radiation outweighs any adverse
environmental impact.
In late 1999 BNFL's Mox fuel created an international furore after
revelations that quality control data on a pilot batch of fuel sent to
Japan had been falsified. The scandal led to import bans by a
number of potential overseas customers for Mox and raised
questions about the size of future export markets.
Critics of Mox, including green groups Greenpeace and Friends of
the Earth say it is more expensive than uranium and requires
modifications to most reactors before it can be burnt.
They say the fuel has no real market and increases stockpiles of
highly toxic plutonium.
But BNFL argues Mox is a good way of re-using a valuable
commodity and says its order book for Mox has reached the 40
percent break-even point.
Friends of the Earth's Johnston disputed this. "In terms of firm
orders that figure is actually 9.6 percent," he said.
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Siemens Showcases Best Practice Integration Technologies in
Nuclear and PET Imaging At the SNM Annual Meeting
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2001--Siemens Nuclear
Medicine Group will showcase at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's
48th Annual Meeting in Toronto, breakthrough technologies that
demonstrate how their nuclear medicine systems integrate into the
world of improved healthcare.
Products demonstrated will include the ECAT(R) ACCEL(TM) high
throughput LSO (lutetium orthosilicate) scanner; biograph(TM)
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Known as the powerhouse in positron emission tomography (PET),
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