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  1. Czech Republic: Independent nuclear monitors accused of illegal imports of radioactive sources

    (April 6, 2001) The Austrian anti-nuclear organization Global 2000 has been accused in the Czech media of ... radioactive materials into the Czech Republic. The Czech nuclear authorities publicly named Global 2000 in interviews as likely to be ... NPP is under construction. RAMOS installed two radiation monitors near the Temelin-1 NPP in January. RAMOS makes it possible to inform ...

  2. In brief

    ... of terrorism (see WISE News Communique 274.2330: "For a nuclear-free Olympics"). In November 1995, a research reactor was closed at the ... CNN, 26 August 2000; ANP, 26 August 2000   Radiation monitors underestimate exposures. A European study has discovered that ...

  3. New problems with BWRs revealed

    ... according to new tests. Stunned by the revelation, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has ordered US utilities to improve their ... says the problem is that condensate pots used with the monitors become blocked by gas bubbles. The monitors then read the information ...

  4. Cause of US reactor emergency may be generic

    (September 12, 1991) The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) now believes that the problems that caused ... result in extremely high off-site contamination. -Nuclear Monitor (US), 1 July 1991 Last week the NRC reported ... a radiation release had occurred. At least some radiation monitors were knocked out during the incident and the utility sent employees ...

  5. NRC'S TMI FACT SHEET DISPUTED

      Earlier this month, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a new "fact sheet" on the 1979 Three ... insufficient to determine release rates. The NRC no longer monitors radioactive releases at reactor sites. "They did not know that the ...

  6. 6. Proliferation and safety problems of MOX use

    ... them.   6.1 Proliferation 6.1.1 No inspection in Nuclear Weapon States It is not commonly known that the reprocessing plants ... and that's it. In the European Union (EU), the IAEA only monitors whether the bookkeeping of Euratom inspectors has been correct. This ...

  7. Nuclear power's annus horribilis

    ... with 1986 (Chernobyl) and 2011 (Fukushima) as one of the nuclear industry's worst ever ‒ and there's still another six months to go. ... problems facing its parent company Toshiba (see Nuclear Monitors #841, #843, #845), or the glacial attempts to resurrect Japan's ...

  8. Nuclear Monitor #895 - 5 August 2021

    To read this full issue of the Nuclear Monitor use the link above; NM895.pdf Please subscribe to Nuclear Monitor. Monitored this issue: Slovenia and Croatia – ... responsibilities, shared problems. In the coming Nuclear Monitors there will be attention for nuclear waste problems in Europe. The case ...

  9. Satellite guard on nuclear transports

    ... has developed a plan to improve security on transport of nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. (415/6.4118) WISE Amsterdam - The Ukrainians have fitted two lorries with radiation monitors and satellite communications in case they are hijacked or some of ...

  10. Cuba steps up nuclear power program

    (June 14 1991) Cuba is stepping up its nuclear power program. Under the program, run by Fidel Castro Diaz Ballart, ... the island nation is installing twin 440,000 kw Soviet nuclear power reactors. (354.3518) WISE Amsterdam - It also has in storage a ... Nuclear Control Institute, a private research group which monitors proliferation, agrees with these officials. According to Leventhal, ...

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