11.02, Rosatom indicated that Russia and Bangladesh have signed an agreement that the Russian experts will help Bangladesh to build its first NPP, which will be possibly located in Rooppur.
10.31, Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung have in the subject of exporting nuclear power techniques to Vietnam and cooperation in mining rare earth reached an agreement.
Nuclear Facilities
11.01, Japan, Genkai NPP No.4(1180MW) located in Saga will restart and produce electricity. Am 10.04 because of the failure of condenser Genkai stopped automatically.
Nuclear Incidents
11.01, USA, in San Onofre NPP located in San Diego County, CA an ammonia leakage has been found and workers are evacuated urgently. It is said that the discharges will not be harmful for public.
Nuclear Accidents
11.03, Japan, it is reported that in Fukushima-Daiichi No.2 a little amount of fission product, Xe133 and Xe135, has been detected, because of this it is suspicious that fission reaction maybe occurred. In order to restrain possible fission, TEPCO has injected 480kg boric acid water an
Companies
10.31, China, Sino Nuclear Power Technical Company(SNPTC) has founded Nuclear (Beijing) Science and Technology Research Institute in Beijing.
Voice
11.03, Taiwan(China), Ma Ying-jeou has announced that the operation of three NPPs(1st/Jinshan(1272MW), 2nd/Kuosheng(1970MW), 3rd/Maanshan(1902MW)) in Taiwan will not be extended. And the 4th/Longmen will be put into commercial operation only when the safety is ensured.
11.03, China will publish 101 nuclear power standards in order to regulate the construction and operation of NPPs.
11.02, UN, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano reported in 66th UN Gerneral Assembly that the accident in Fukushima will not affect the the prediction of the number of NPPs in the next decades which is made by IAEA. The total number of NPPs will rise steadily.
11.02, Belgium, a spokesman of government has reported that in the case with a sufficient replaceable power, they will quit the nuclear power by 2025.
11.01, Mexico, because of new explored reserves of natural gas Mexico has abandoned its construction plan of 10 new NPPs.