On 16 December 2003 JEWO-metaal B.V. alarmed the VROM-Inspectorate that they had a radiation alarm of their portal detector. A container with stainless steel scrap from Jordan had a radiation level of 0.3 microSievert per hour at contact. The enhanced radiation level was caused by a process vessel of about 40 liters inside the container. The radiation level at the outside of the vessel was 2.2 microSievert per hour. The process vessel contained a filter with about 1 kilogram of natural uranium as remnants of a brown and yellow filtercake. By handling the vessel some pieces of the content fell out of one of the pipes which were assembled on the vessel, but did not cause a contamination of the scrapyard. Those pieces were analysed in a laboratory. The analysed material contained about 50 wt% uranium. The IAEA was informed. Inspectors of the IAEA investigated the vessel and have taken samples of the content of the vessel. The press was informed on 14 january 2004 (http://www.vrom.nl/pagina.html?id=12281, only in Dutch). The press release attracted international attention (on 16 and 17 January 2004 in The New York Times).
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.
Yesterday, the ANVS, the Dutch nuclear supervisor, authorized the transport of up to six shipments of fissile enriched uranium from Russia to Urenco in Almelo. This is remarkable because after the Russian invasion, almost two years ago, the uranium-enriching state-owned company in Almelo claimed to be "very concerned" about developments in Ukraine and therefore "stopped […]
[The Guardian]: "As nuclear plant is hit by further delay, real cost will be far higher after inflation is included, as project uses 2015 prices. The owner of Hinkley Point C has blamed inflation, Covid and Brexit as it announced the nuclear power plant project could be delayed by a further four years, and cost […]
From WNN: In 2022, 13 EU countries with nuclear electricity production generated 609,255 GWh of nuclear electricity - down 16.7% compared with 2021, according to figures released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. It noted this is the lowest level registered in the period from 1990, the first year for which comparable […]