September 2024

Nuclear Reactors 1420 - Maersk, Lloyds Register and Core Power Are Studying The Use Of Nuclear Power For Container Ships

     Nuclear-powered container ships could be moving cargo in and out of Europe by the end of the decade. Danish company Maersk moves twelve million containers a year. It has partnered with Lloyd’s Register and nuclear technology start-up Core Power to study the regulatory feasibility of using fourth-generation nuclear reactors to supply power to container ships.

Nuclear Reactors 1419 - France Turns On New Flammenville Reactor After Twelve Years Of Delays

     France is starting up its first newly built nuclear reactor in a quarter of a century. The project is twelve years behind schedule and has suffered multiple setbacks. France is still looking to a nuclear revival with plans for more new plants.

Radioactive Waste 935 - Finland Nearing Completion Of Permanent Geological Repository For Spent Nuclear Fuel

     Finland is soon to become the first country in the world to attempt the burial of nuclear fuel waste in a permanent geological tomb stored for the next one hundred thousand years.
     The plan is to pack the spent nuclear fuel in watertight canisters and deposit them about thirteen hundred feet below ground level in the forest of the southwest region of Finland.

Nuclear Reactors 1418 - South Africa Is Working On License Extensions For Its Two Operating Nuclear Reactors

     A South African Ministerial Determination for the procurement of twenty-five hundred megawatts of new nuclear capacity has been withdrawn to allow for further public consultation after legal challenges to the procedure for seeking public comments.

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