TEPCO Building Structure to Protect Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 4 Used Fuel...
Plant Update Tokyo Electric Power Co. last week began preparing to build a covered structure alongside and above the reactor 4 building at Fukushima Daiichi. The structure will house a fuel-handling...
View ArticleTEPCO Finds Reactor 4 Fuel Storage Pool Is Level and Safe
Plant Update Tokyo Electric Power Co. has published measurements showing that the used fuel storage pool at Fukushima Daiichi reactor 4 is level and can withstand a large earthquake. The company last...
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Entergy Reactor Engineer Discusses Leadership Opportunities for Young People...
Reactor Engineer Kristine Madden (Click to enlarge) As a dedicated young leader in the nuclear energy industry, Kristine Madden, a reactor engineer at Entergy’s Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan, is...
View ArticleJapanese Shareholders Uphold Utilities’ Nuclear Use; Ohi 3 Starts Up
Industry/Regulatory/Political At shareholder meetings last week of all nine Japanese nuclear utilities, proposals to reduce or eliminate the use of nuclear energy were voted down. Tokyo Electric Power...
View ArticleNEI Submits Industry Approach on Used Fuel Pool Instrumentation Order
The following story originally appeared in NEI’s Nuclear Energy Overview. NEI has asked the NRC to endorse the industry’s guidance for complying with the agency order requiring that nuclear energy...
View ArticleNEI, NRC Share Fukushima Lessons With NAS Study Panel
The following story originally appeared in NEI’s Nuclear Energy Overview. NEI and NRC representatives told a National Academy of Sciences panel that the industry is making steady progress in...
View ArticleIndustry Seeks NRC Approval of Used Fuel Pool Instrumentation Guidance
The following news article originally appeared in NEI’s Nuclear Energy Overview. The industry has submitted for NRC endorsement revised guidance for implementing the agency’s post-Fukushima order to...
View ArticleTEPCO: Unused Fuel From Fukushima Daiichi Storage Pool Undamaged
Plant Update Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it found no significant damage or deformation to two unused fuel assemblies it had removed last week from the used fuel storage pool of Fukushima Daiichi...
View ArticleUS Industry to Develop Two Regional Emergency Response Centers
Industry/Regulatory/Political The operators of U.S. nuclear energy facilities last week approved a contract to develop two regional response centers that will store emergency equipment for rapid...
View ArticleJapan Voters Return Pro-Nuclear Party to Power
Industry/Regulatory/Political U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has recommended requiring engineered filters to the containment vents for Mark I and Mark II boiling water reactors as a...
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