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The UK, as host of the next round of UN climate talks, must take the opportunity to show how nuclear energy is essential to decarbonisation, Tim Stone, chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association, said at a Westminster Energy Forum conference last week. "In fact, I would go as far as to say: No nuclear? No net zero."
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 19 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Finance-need-not-be-harder-than-physics,-says-NIA
US Department of Energy (DOE) contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) announced on 3 July that it had awarded a subcontract to AVANTech for its tank-side caesium removal demonstration project at the Hanford site, which is undergoing a major legacy cleanup programme. This is the third proposal to prepare radioactive waste from the Hanford tank farms for treatment before it is channelled to the plant. The aim is to separate caesium and solid materials from Hanford's underground tanks to provide a low-activity waste stream to the plant when it begins vitrification.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 06 July 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscontract-awarded-for-pre-treatment-plant-at-us-hanford-site-6233139
The United Nations is to adopt advice on radiation that clarifies what can be said about its health effects on individuals and large populations. A preliminary report has also found no observable health effects from last year's nuclear accident in Fukushima.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 10 December 2012
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UN-approves-radiation-advice