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• IAEA: Increased Demand May Triple Uranium Reserves

  Here's a clip for all the anti-nuke activists who say we're running out of Uranium. From Reuters : High uranium prices will spur exploration that could more than triple known global deposits, avoiding a shortage as China ramps up its nuclear capacity, a top executive with the International Atomic Energy Agency said. Yury A. Sokolov, the agency's deputy director general, said new technologies... Posted Oct 16 2007, 09:48 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• Temelin Gets IAEA Sign of Approval

  From Radio Praha : The drawn-out Czech-Austrian dispute over the Temelin nuclear power plant in south Bohemia, located just sixty kilometers from the Austrian border, took a new turn over the weekend when the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Muhammad El Baradei threw his weight fully behind the Czech Republic. In an interview for Monday's edition of the Austrian paper Profil Mr. El... Posted Aug 27 2007, 02:24 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• IAEA Issues Report on Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Plant

  Click here for the summary and here (PDF) for the complete report. From the summary: Earthquake damage to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station on 16 July appears to be limited and less than expected, according to an IAEA expert report released today and submitted to the Japanese authorities. Although it appears that the earthquake of 16 July 2007 significantly exceeded the level of the seismic... Posted Aug 20 2007, 12:14 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• IAEA Team: Japan Reactor Damage "Appears less than expected."

  from Bloomberg : Damage to a nuclear power station run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. from a July 16 earthquake ``appears less than expected,'' the International Atomic Energy Agency said after a three-day examination. A team of inspectors ``has concluded that plant safety features performed as required during the earthquake,'' the IAEA, as the United Nations nuclear watchdog is known... Posted Aug 15 2007, 02:44 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, TEPCO, Japan

• BBC Report on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant and IAEA Inspection Team

  Read More... Posted Aug 13 2007, 11:07 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• IAEA Projects Substantial Expansion of Nuclear Energy

  From NucNet: Medium-term projections point to the possibility of “a substantial expansion” in the use of nuclear energy, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said in its annual report for 2006. The Vienna-based agency said that for the first time projections also recognise that nuclear energy would mitigate the discharge of carbon into the atmosphere, since energy produced from fossil... Posted Aug 07 2007, 11:37 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• IAEA Team to Japan

  Details from Reuters . Read More... Posted Jul 24 2007, 10:13 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, Japan, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa