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Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team
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Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team produces Nuclear Power Daily's coverage of nuclear energy. We report on reactors and small modular reactors, the fuel cycle, waste and safety, policy, and fusion research. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Nuclear Power Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Legacy Reports

US Congress Approves Bill On Global Nuclear Fuel Bank

Washington (RIA Novosti) Jun 20, 2007 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to establish an international nuclear fuel bank in a non-nuclear country in view of Iran's and North Korea's continuing atomic research. The bill follows Russia's initiative to form a global network of nuclear cycle centers as a way to maintain the non-proliferation regime and defuse international tensions over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Jun 20, 2007
Legacy Reports

First Russian Built Nuclear Power Reactor In China Goes Into Operation

Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2007 - Russia's first nuclear reactor in China has finally gone into commercial operation after numerous delays and a second will begin production by year's end, Russian officials said Tuesday. The Tianwan nuclear power plant is a very big Russian-Chinese project, Ivan Kamenskikh, vice head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency of Russia, told journalists via video phone from Moscow.

Jun 19, 2007
Legacy Reports

Canada Okays Plan For Nuclear Waste Depot

Ottawa (AFP) June 15, 2007 - The Canadian government has approved a plan for a below-ground nuclear waste depot that is backed by the nuclear power industry but branded by environmentalists as dangerous. Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said Thursday that the government had accepted a plan to bury radioactive waste from nuclear plants in deep subterranean storage depots after first temporarily storing it in shallower underground facilities.

Jun 15, 2007
Legacy Reports

Thousands Of Protestors Rally Against Indonesian Nuclear Plant

Jakarta (AFP) June 12, 2007 - Thousands of protestors rallied Tuesday in Indonesia's Central Java, calling on the government to abandon plans to build a nuclear power plant on the outskirts of their city, organisers said. The government, under increasing pressure to improve energy supplies to the world's fourth most populous nation, plans to built its first plant on the foothills of Mount Muria, a dormant volcano on the north coast of Java island.

Jun 12, 2007
Legacy Reports

NGO Warns Of Explosion Risk At Russian Nuclear Storage

Oslo (AFP) June 01, 2007 - A Russian nuclear waste storage facility on the Kola Peninsula runs the risk of exploding soon due to severe corrosion on three tanks, the Norwegian environmental organisation Bellona warned on Friday. The risk of an uncontrolled chain reaction in the storage facility is imminent, Bellona, which works with nuclear contamination on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, said in a statement.

Jun 1, 2007