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The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) has released its updated blueprint for the next ten years of the programme to clean up US legacy nuclear sites. Fifteen sites remain on EM's list of active clean-up sites: Brookhaven National Laboratory has been removed from the list after the completion of work there.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 10 March 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-legacy-cleanup-programme-looks-to-next-decade
During the past year, China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) and the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI), have contacted Argentina’s INVAP to discuss collaborating on issues related to experimental nuclear reactors and radioisotope production plants for medical uses, INVAP said earlier in February.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 22 February 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-expresses-interest-in-argentine-technology-for-nuclear-medicine-9496618
Of the 220 research reactors in operation today, only seven are on the African continent. In other words, with 17.2% of the world population and the strongest expected growth in the coming years, Africans have access to only 3% of the world's nuclear research reactor capacity. Marguerite Leonardi, senior advisor at NPC Consulting & Engineering, and Professor Vincent Lukanda Mwamba, Commissaire Général of the Commissariat Général à l’Energie Atomique, explain why that is a concern and why the research reactor in Kinshasa should be restarted urgently.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Why-research-reactors-are-so-important-f
Following a US Environmental Protection Agency proposal to revise Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations (40 CFR 190) in February 2014, the American Nuclear Society and Nuclear Energy Institute have announced that they have commented.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 August 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nuclear-bodies-submit-comments-on-radiation-protection-4336016