Nuclear News: Indian reactor shuts down for the third time in three weeks
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
Nuclear N-Former: Indian reactor shuts down for the third time in three weeks
’The Indian Point nuclear power plant is struggling to keep its reactors running. Plant operators shut down reactor Unit 3 again Sunday night to address more problems on its main boiler feedwater pumps. This is the third time the reactor has been forced offline in three weeks. Officials with Entergy Nuclear, the company that owns and operates Indian Point, said the hitches pose no threat to its workers or the public. "The plant is designed to shut down at the slightest hint that something may not be working optimally," said spokesman Jerry Nappi.’
UPI: Dresden atomic plant investigates leak
’MORRIS, Ill., June 8 (UPI) -- Officials at the Dresden Nuclear Power plant in Morris, Ill., say they're investigating the leak of a radioactive hydrogen isotope. Elevated levels of tritium, a by-product of energy produced in atomic reactors, were found during the weekend in a monitoring well, storm drains and a concrete vault, all on plant property, said Tim Hanley, the plant's vice president. The public is not at risk because the leakage was contained to the middle of the plant's property, Hanley told the Joliet (Ill.) Herald News in a story published Monday.’
CBS: Public Meetings on Three Mile Island Generators
’The public has a chance to voice its concerns before two 500-ton steam generators arrive at Three Mile Island this September. The company that manufactures the generators is holding two public meetings in Central Pennsylvania to talk about the big arrivals.’
The London Times: Iberdrola to lead field in race for Sellafield site
’Sellafield, Europe's most heavily contaminated industrial site, went under the hammer yesterday. Iberdrola, the Spanish energy giant that owns ScottishPower, is expected to be among the bidders for a 250-hectare parcel of land adjoining the main site in West Cumbria where Britain mastered the technology to build the atomic bomb in the 1950s and later built the world's first commercial nuclear power plant. John Clarke, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's commercial director, said that the plot – which is expected to raise at least £100 million for the Treasury – had "outstanding potential" as a site for development of a new reactor, likely to cost at least £4 billion to build.’
UPI: Obama to pursue global uranium fuel bank
’WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama wants to create an international uranium "fuel bank" to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, administration officials say. Arms-control specialists say such a bank, controlled by the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, would provide a test of Iran's sincerity of its claim that its enrichment program is for civilian use only, The Boston Globe reported Monday.’
Gulf Daily News: Pygmy that is now a monster
’Korea has been such a huge and intractable problem for so many decades now that it is easy to think of it as just an unpleasant fact of life, like drizzle or midges or the aches and pains of age. There it lies on the far side of the world; we know something's wrong over there, but we can't always remember what. The Korean War was the one that our grandfathers were too old for, and our fathers too young. They make cars and stereos like the Japanese, and there's nutty dictator with bad hair. And then, every few years, like a large but lethargic Komodo dragon dozing in the corner, Korea opens its eyes, lumbers into action and bites us.’
