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Regulatory delay closes San Onofre

Corporate

07 June 2013

San Onofre 48Both reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in California are being retired due to the lengthy and uncertain regulation surrounding their return to service.

 

Terrorists target Areva site

Corporate

23 May 2013

UPDATED Areva has confirmed that 15 people were injured in a terrorist attack at its Somair uranium mine in Niger, one of which later died the same day. The site was the target of one of two simultaneous attacks in the north-west of the country.

Jail sentence for falsification

Regulation and Safety

15 April 2013

Browns Ferry (TVA)_48An American court has sentenced a former engineering safety manager to 78 months in prison for falsifying information about injuries at three nuclear power plant sites.

Paducah enrichment plant to be closed

Exploration and Nuclear Fuel

28 May 2013

Paducah (DoE)_48USEC is to wind up operations this month at the Paducah plant it leases from the US Department of Energy. The 1950s facility is the last remaining gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment plant in the world.

Moniz takes office

Nuclear Policies

22 May 2013

Moniz sworn in (DoE) 48Ernest Moniz was sworn in yesterday as the 13th US Secretary of Energy at a ceremony in Washington, DC.

Industrial accident at centrifuge plant

Regulation and Safety

04 April 2013

Two men lost their lives after an accident at the Enrichment Technology manufacturing plant in the Netherlands at Almelo on 29 March. The non-nuclear facility makes and maintains equipment for uranium enrichment.