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International study finds plutonium particles were released during Fukushima accident
Researchers have found that small amounts of plutonium were included inside cesium-rich microparticles (CsMPs) emitted during the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011.
General Atomics to deliver radiation monitoring systems to Millstone 3
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been awarded a contract from Dominion Energy to deliver radiation monitoring systems for unit 3 of the Millstone Power Station...
IAEA reports on elevated radiation levels in northern Europe
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on 2 July that the recent detection of slightly elevated levels of radioisotopes in northern Europe is likely related to a...
Belarus receives IAEA radiological monitoring equipment
In the wake of the forest fires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone straddling Ukraine and Belarus in April, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced it has helped to...
Swedish regulator reports on radiation safety at Forsmark
The radiation safety at Forsmark's Kraftgrupp AB's three boiling water reactors at the Forsmark nuclear power plant is acceptable the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) said on...
Chernobyl forest fire threatens radwaste store
The forest fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone which began on 4 April was still burning on 14 April, Ukrainian media reported, raising concerns about a possible increase in...
Rosatom to modernise neutron-flux monitoring equipment at Kozloduy 5&6
Rusatom Service, the electric power division of Russia's state atomic energy corporation Rosatom, has been selected to modernise neutron-flux monitoring equipment at 5 and 6 of...
Chernobyl fungus used in space experiments
American astronauts plan to take samples of fungus from the walls of the Chernobyl nuclear plant on-board the International Space Station (IIS) for experimentation, Russia’s...
Nuvia Canada awarded contract by Bruce
Canada’s Bruce Power on 3 October signed a $58 million contract with Nuvia Canada for radiation protection services during the Major Component Replacement Unit 6 project.
New study suggests Russia’s Mayak may be the source of 2017 ruthenium release
Russia’s Mayak PA reprocessing plant in the southern Urals region (part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom) is the most likely source of a release of ruthenium-106 detected...
IAEA opens new linear accelerator
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has marked the opening of a new linear accelerator (linac) facility at its laboratories in Seibersdorf.
Drones map radiation near Chernobyl
A team of British scientists has completed the most comprehensive survey yet of Chernobyl’s Red Forest, identifying previously undetected radiation ‘hot-spots.’
ANSTO installs emissions monitoring equipment
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation's (ANSTO) medical isotope production facility announced in January that it had become the second in the world to install...
Source of Ru-106 emissions still a mystery
A meeting of the commission set up to investigate increased concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 (Ru-106) in the atmosphere in Europe and Russia last year has failed...
UAE opens first dosimetry lab
The UAE’s first laboratory for measuring radiation levels was inaugurated on 1 April at Khalifa University, Gulf News reported. The Secondary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory (SSDL) is...
Tritium found in Wisconsin groundwater
US LaCrosseSolutions, a subsidiary of nuclear waste disposal company EnergySolutions, announced on 12 March that it had detected elevated levels of tritium in a monitoring well near...
Russian commission says Mayak not the source of Ru-106.
Russian officials on 8 December again denied the Mayak production association in Ozersk (Urals) was the source of radioactive ruthenium-106 (Ru-106) detected over Europe in September.
Chernobyl’s new shelter reduces radiation levels
Gamma radiation levels in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant have fallen, on average, to a tenth of previous levels following completion of the New Safe...
Russia boosts cobalt-60 production
Russia’s Research Institute for Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) has started the industrial production of ionising radiation (gamma) sources based on cobalt-60 (Co-60), which are widely used...
