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Japanese nuclear power plant operators have reported some minor damage, but no public safety issues, following the 7.6 magnitude earthquake which struck Ishikawa Prefecture on Monday.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 03 January 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/No-abnormalities-reported-at-Japanese-nuclear-plan

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says that the arrival of its experts at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant a year ago was "crucial" and their presence continues to be of "paramount importance".

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Tuesday, 05 September 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-stresses-importance-of-IAEA-presence-at-Zap

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have carried out further inspections "so far without observing any heavy military equipment, explosives or mines" but are still awaiting access to the rooftops of the reactor buildings.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Saturday, 22 July 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-team-continue-Zaporizhzhia-inspections,-but-a

Reactors shut down as condition of EU membership All spent nuclear fuel including nuclear fuel debris has been safely removed from the fuel pools. Courtesy Ignalina NPP. The recovery of fuel debris from spent fuel pools has been completed at the Ignalina nuclear power station in Lithuania, operator Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) said.

INPP said the fuel debris recovery is part of the programme of nuclear decommissioning at the two-unit facility. The work was supported by the main contractor, Germany-based Höfer & Bechtel.

The project had financial support from the Ignalina International Decommissioning Support Fund administrated by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Ignalina is the first and only Soviet-era RBMK-type power station to have performed the cleaning of the bottom of fuel storage pools. INPP said all spent nuclear fuel including nuclear fuel debris had been safely removed and stored in fuel storage casks.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 18 February 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/lithuania-2-5-2023

Power company Ukrenergo says hostilities making it impossible to restore power supply The Chernobyl nuclear station and all nuclear facilities in the exclusion zone have been left without electricity. Courtesy Chornobyl NPP. Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has called for a ceasefire to allow repairs to be carried out to restore the electricity supply to the Chernobyl nuclear power station and facilities within the 30-km exclusion zone around the shut-down facility.

Ukraine’s state power operator Energoatom earlier said Russian forces have disconnected the nuclear power station – which does not have any reactors in commercial operation – from the grid. The state-run company said a high-voltage line had been damaged by Russian forces and had been disconnected.

As a result, the Chernobyl station and all nuclear facilities in the exclusion zone were left without electricity, Energoatom said, warning that the situation could lead to the release of radioactive substances.

Energoatom said the loss of power “makes it impossible to control the parameters of nuclear and radiation safety at the plant”. Energy minister Herman Halushchenko confirmed safety data was no longer being received from the plant.

Earlier this week, Ukraine’s nuclear regulator SNRIU said safety and security parameters at Chernobyl were normal, but several neutron flux, gamma radiation dose rate and radiation pollution sensors at the New Safe Confinement (NSC) shelter failed, making it impossible to control a number of radiation parameters, Ukraine’s nuclear regulator SNRIU said.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 11 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/kyiv-calls-for-russian-ceasefire-to-allow-repairs-at-chernobyl-3-3-2022

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on 28 April approved Tokyo Electric Power Company's (Tepco's) decommissioning plan for the four boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plant, some 11km south of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant. The four reactors, which began operation between 1982 and 1987, were also hit by the tsunami in March 2011 which destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi plant. They temporarily lost reactor cooling functions, but unlike the Daiichi plant, avoided meltdowns. They have since been maintained in cold shutdown.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Friday, 30 April 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapans-nra-approves-decommissioning-plan-for-fukushima-daiini-8708800

Japan's nuclear regulator today approved Tokyo Electric Power Company's (Tepco's) decommissioning plan for the four reactors at its Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, close to the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 29 April 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fukushima-Daini-decommissioning-plan-approved

The removal of fuel from Unit 3 began in April 2019. Courtesy Tepco. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), the operator of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station in northern Japan, has removed all 566 fuel assemblies from the storage pool of Unit 3 at the damaged facility.

“The fuel removal work from the spent fuel pool of Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station Unit 3 was completed with the removal of all 566 units at 13:59 on February 28,” said a statement on the company’s social media feeds.

The removal of fuel from Unit 3’s storage fuel pool began in April 2019 after several years of work to remove debris from the reactor building service floor.

The work required the removal of huge pieces of damaged equipment that fell into the pool during the explosions that hit the nuclear site in Fukushima, in the days after a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and emergency cooling.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/tepco-completes-removal-of-unit-3-fuel-assemblies-3-2-2021

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) today announced its official decision to decommission the four reactors at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, close to the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant. The company said in June 2018 that it was considering decommissioning the plant in conjunction with Fukushima Daiichi in response to local demands for a decision on the fate of the site.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Tepco-declares-Fukushima-Daini-for-decommissioning

A pre-construction design review of the Hitachi-GE ABWR in the UK has proceeded to the next phase. Following a preliminary phase that ended in January 2014, the reactor design completed an initial technical assessment in August. But there remains lots more work to do before final approval, tentatively scheduled for December 2017.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 03 September 2014
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsabwr-passes-uk-gda-step-2-but-full-psa-needed-4360853

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