Nuclear News: Nuclear solution comes with a huge price tag
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Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
AFP: Nuclear solution comes with a huge price tag
‘COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A ghost from the nuclear industry's early years has reappeared. It is not public apprehension about safety or disposal issues this time, but the staggering cost of building nuclear reactors.’
CNN: N. Korea seen as using bargaining chips
‘North Korea's announcement last week that it has begun reprocessing nuclear fuel rods at the Yongbyon nuclear facility about 60 miles (nearly 100 kilometers) north of the capitol, Pyongyang, raises questions about the secretive nation's agenda.’
Financial Times: High bids force out group in nuclear site sale
‘The consortium of Spain's Iberdrola, the French utility GDF Suez, and Britain's Scottish and Southern Energy has dropped out of the race, leaving EDF of France and the German partnership of RWE and Eon to continue in a bid process launched almost two months ago.’
Registan.net: Kazakhstan Expands Its Uranium Industry
‘A new uranium mine has opened near Kyzylorda. When fully functional, it is expected to supply about 750 tons of uranium per year to China’s nascent nuclear power industry. It is the first joint Chinese-Kazakh venture, so it may portend the slow advance of Chinese influence in the region everyone (including us) has been predicting.’
Your Nuclear News: Tomari 3 in commissioning
‘Test operations have begun at Tomari 3, ahead of commercial operation in December this year.
Hokkaido Electric Power Company started building the pressurized water reactor in 2003. It will eventually produce 912 MWe alongside two 550 MWe models at the Tomari site, the only nuclear power plant on the northern island of Hokkaido.’
