According to TEPCO, the organization managing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Japan, all three conditions needed to declare a cold shutdown condition at the installation's damaged nuclear reactors have been met.
The first is to bring the temperature inside the pressure vessel to less than 100 deg... |
16 December 2011
10:58 GMT |
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An international panel of experts put together by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the request of the Japanese government has just released its final report on the situation at Fukushima.
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which is operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), w... |
15 November 2011
06:22 GMT |
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According to documents the State Office for Nuclear Safety of the Czech Republic forwarded to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), higher-than normal levels of radioactive iodine isotopes have been detected over the European nation.
Scientists in the Czech Republic say that they began recording low levels ... |
11 November 2011
10:29 GMT |
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Recently, reports in the press stated that experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had drafted a secret paper, saying that Iran had the necessary expertise required to build a functional atomic bomb. Within a few hours after the report surfaced, officials from the United Nations nuclear watchdog pu... |
23 September 2009
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Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently managed to retrieve dozens of radioactive sources from a Lebanese research facility, where they had been left to decay for the better part of the last ten years. The active cobalt, which has now been repatriated, was a potential source of material fo... |
14 September 2009
04:23 GMT |
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After an extremely narrow vote, 62-year-old Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano has been appointed as the new Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), succeeding Mohamed ElBaradei as the leader of one of the most important agencies in the world. More than two thirds of the Council voted for Amano... |
6 July 2009
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Mosquitoes have been some of our worst enemies most likely since mankind developed. The winged creatures can be a real nuisance through the noises they make at night, when you try to sleep, and that in itself is enough to get you mad. But, in some regions of the world, the hum they make has the same ring to it as dea... |
15 June 2009
08:54 GMT |
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According to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), traces of undeclared and illegal man-made uranium have been found in a small teaching reactor in Damascus, Syria. This is the second time when off-the-books uranium is found in the Middle Eastern nation, with previous traces identifi... |
8 June 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believe that high-tech medical scanners, while perfectly fit to detect hidden diseases and tumors inside patients, could use some improvements, in terms of protecting the people that go in them from the harmful effects of too much radiation. Having already te... |
29 April 2009
10:25 GMT |
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is to become the first Arab country to benefit from nuclear power, according to the US State Department. Secretary Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to sign the nuclear cooperation pact later this year, which will pave the way for the country opening its first nuclear facility. The UAE has ... |
19 January 2009
09:18 GMT |
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With many countries in the world, and especially the Middle East, announcing their intentions to build nuclear power plants in the next decade, the risk of more fuel production and reprocessing facilities, capable of creating weapons-grade uranium and plutonium increases sharply. In an attempt to stop this proliferat... |
8 January 2009
05:40 GMT |
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