March 2024

Contract for removal of Mühleberg reactor vessel world-nuclear-news.org

     A project to transfer more than one thousand drums of radioactive waste from the Winfrith site in Dorset, in southern England, to the Low-Level Waste Repository (LLWR) site in Cumbria, in northwest England, has been finished earlier than expected. The project was an accumulation of eight years' work. Eleven consignments of drums have been transported by rail from Winfrith to the LLWR site.

Ambient office = 141 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 100 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 104 nanosieverts per hour

Analysts question economic viability of Bulgaria’s new nuclear units power-technology

     Nuclear fusion is the process of generating energy by fusing two atomic nuclei to form a heavier one. It has long been advertised as the energy of the future. Referred to as the “power of the stars,” fusion energy offers clean, safe, and virtually limitless power.

Ambient office = 83 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 130 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 129 nanosieverts per hour

As ‘Oppenheimer’ wins big, we should worry about lowering of nuclear thresholds politico.eu

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     There are growing fears among diplomats in the US and Europe that Iran’s largely unmonitored nuclear program and the destabilization caused by the Gaza conflict are strengthening the power of Iranian factions that back the development of nuclear weapons.

Ambient office = 99 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 102 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 101 nanosieverts per hour