Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

World Nuclear News Update 3/28


CORPORATE: Tohoku scraps plan for Namie-Odaka plant (http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C-Tohoku_scraps_plan_for_Namie_Odaka_plant-2803134.html)
Long-standing plans for the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukushima prefecture have been dropped by utility Tohoku Electric Power Company. The Namie-Odaka plant was first proposed some 45 years ago.

CORPORATE: Putin offers help to South African nuclear industry (http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C-Putin_offers_help_to_South_African_nuclear_industry-2803138.html)
Russia is offering to help South Africa to develop its own nuclear industry from resource production to power plant design and manufacture, Vladimir Putin has told South African president Jacob Zuma.

WASTE & RECYCLING: New licence for Chernobyl used fuel facility (http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-New_licence_for_Chernobyl_spent_fuel_facility-2803137.html)
Ukraine's nuclear regulator has issued a new licence for the construction and commissioning of a facility to store used nuclear fuel at the Chernobyl plant.

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