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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...
Japanese workers were confined in contaminated room
The five workers exposed to airborne plutonium at Japan’s Oarai Research & Development Centre in Ibaraki Prefecture were quarantined for about three hours in the room where the...
Jamaica approves bill to regulate nuclear technology
The Jamaican Senate has approved a bill to regulate the use of nuclear technology and ionizing radiation, according to a government statement.
Lloyd's Register, SSM to improve emergency response tool
Lloyd's Register Consulting is partnering with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) to enhance the source term prediction software RASTEP and support the decision-making...
US nuclear bodies submit comments on radiation protection
Following a US Environmental Protection Agency proposal to revise Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations (40 CFR 190) in February 2014, the...
No raised risk of cancer for residents near Sellafield and Dounreay - report
Analysis of recent data suggests that children, teenagers and young adults currently living close to Sellafield and Dounreay are not at an increased risk of developing cancer....
ANSTO tests smartphone dosimeter app
Scientists at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation scientists have verified that Australian smartphone software Radioactivity Counter can indeed measure...
China’s NNSA signs MOU with OECD/NEA
A Memorandum of Understanding in the Field of Regulation of Nuclear and Radiation Safety has been signed by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic...
