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- IAEA’s Amano Urges Nuclear Nations To Test Emergency Response Arrangements(NUCNET, 2015-10-19) Kraev, Kame; Dalton, DavidAll countries operating nuclear facilities should test their existing emergency response arrangements, including through international exercises such as Convention Exercises (ConvEx), to identify areas that need improvement, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Yukiya Amano said.
- Problems Of Soviet Nuclear Legacy Are Being Resolved, Says Rosatom Director(NUCNET, 2015-10-12) Kraev, KameProblems related to the Soviet-era nuclear legacy in Russia are being resolved under a federal programme that has already seen more than 28,000 used fuel assemblies placed in long-term storage or reprocessed, and solutions are being found for the rehabilitation of more than 2.7 million square metres of contaminated land, Oleg Kryukov, director of state nuclear corporation Rosatom’s radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel and decommissioning policy department, said.
- Renewables Cannot Replace Nuclear In Fight Against Climate Change, Says IAEA(NUCNET, 2015-10-20) Kraev, KameRenewable energy sources would have to increase at a level “hard to believe” to compensate fully for the use of nuclear energy in the fight against climate change, David Shropshire, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s planning and economic studies section said today.
- Rosatom To Invest €36M In New Long-Term Waste Storage Facility(NUCNET, 2015-09-29) Kraev, KameRussian state nuclear corporation Rosatom will invest 2.7bn rubles (RUB) (€36.6m, $40.9m) to build a new near-surface long-term storage facility for low-and-intermediate radioactive waste, Denis Yegorov, deputy director-general of No Rao, national operator of nuclear waste handling, said.
- Ukraine Renounces Agreement With Russia On Completing Khmelnitski-3 and -4(NUCNET, 2015-09-23) Kraev, KameUkraine’s supreme legislative body, the Verkhovna Rada, has approved a bill renouncing an earlier intergovernmental agreement with Russia on the construction of two new reactor units at the Khmelnitski nuclear power station near the city of Neteshin, western Ukraine.