During a routine filter change, in the refuelling water storage and cooling system, three workers received whole body radiation doses of 50, 90 and 105 milli-Sieverts. The statutory annual whole body dose limit is 50 milli-Sieverts. A pre-job radiation survey performed on the filter had indicated a dose rate of approximately 2 milli-Sieverts per hour, therefore two maintenance workers started to remove the filter from its location on the plant (watched by another worker employed as a radiation monitor). After about 20 minutes one of the workers looked at his portable radiation indicator and saw that it was reading off-scale high. The work site was immediately cleared and the workers reported to the radiological area entry point for monitoring. A subsequent radiation dose survey indicated a contact dose rate of approximately 2400 milli-Sieverts per hour on the filter. Initial readings taken from the worker's legal radiation monitoring dosimetry indicated whole body doses of 50, 90 and 105 milli-Sieverts. Estimated doses to the hands of the maintenance workers are being calculated. Justification of rating: INES Manual II-2.2: level 2 an event resulting in a dose to a worker exceeding a statutory annual dose limit.
An analysis by the Norwegian NGO Bellona of transborder trade operations with the customs code 840130 (irradiated fuel assemblies or fuel elements) show a more than twofold increase of import to EU countries of fresh nuclear fuel in cash terms – from 280 million Euros in 2022 to 686 million Euros in 2023. In physical […]
The French government has said it is "seriously" studying the option of building a plant to convert and enrich reprocessed uranium to cut its reliance on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. The only plant in the world that currently converts reprocessed uranium for use in nuclear power plants is in Russia. "The option of […]
Jan vd Putte quickly changed from dressing as the pied piper at the protest during the IAEA nuclear power conference to warn for the Russian nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom and its role in Ukraine.
Anke Herold, Executive Director Oeko-Institut, Freiburg (Germany), in Brussels about the claim to triple nuclear by 2050: IPCC scenarios vs forecast development of nuclear.
