Geiger Readings for May 01, 2024
Ambient office = 123 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 80 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient office = 123 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 80 nanosieverts per hour
On Wednesday, a Democratic U.S. senator urged President Joe Biden to include strict nonproliferation safeguards in any nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia that might be part of a potential normalization of relations agreement brokered by the U.S. between the Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Clean-up completed of pioneering ORNL site reactor world-nuclear-news.org
Ambient office = 79 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 124 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 127 nanosieverts per hour
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Ambient office = 59 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Part 1 of 2 Parts
Massive growth is expected in the global demand for electricity. If it materializes it will require an expansion of both generation and the transmission systems, speakers at a side event at the World Energy Congress 2024 agreed. They said that nuclear power will play an important role in ensuring the resilience of the future global electrical system.
France's Framatome and Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) have agreed to create an industrialization process for the manufacture of monolithic molybdenum-uranium (U-Mo) fuel for the TUM’s FRM II research reactor. Framatome said that this low-enriched fuel will benefit from the highest uranium fuel density ever loaded into a European research reactor.
Ambient office = 61 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 126 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 126 nanosieverts per hour
Energoatom and Holtec just signed an agreement to collaborate on SMR manufacturing facilities.
The collaboration agreement provides for the creation in Ukraine of manufacturing capabilities for components for small modular reactors (SMRs), plus storage and transportation systems for spent nuclear fuel.
Ambient office = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 156 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 152 nanosieverts per hour
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Rafael Grossi is director-general of the IAEA. “For this business model to succeed, we need regulatory approaches to adapt to a new circumstance. We cannot afford the luxury of these regulatory marathons lasting five, six, seven years.”
Ambient office = 58 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 116 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 116 nanosieverts per hour
Part 1 of 2 Parts
Executives at Rolls-Royce estimate that U.K. regulators will take four and a half years to assess the safety of its design for a small modular reactor (SMR). The U.K. company must endure more lengthy approval processes in other countries where it wants to build its SMRs.