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Australian Research Reactors, Australia has a new state of the art research reactor – OPAL, which commenced operation in 2006. Australia was one of the first countries to build a civil research reactor, in 1958. HIFAR produced most of Australia’s radioisotopes for medicine an...

The mean capacity factor for reactors over the last five years shows little variation with age after the initial start-up of the reactor. For reactors beyond 40 years of operation there is a slight increase in average capacity factor. Source: World Nuclear Association, IAEA ...

About half of the staff who were on shift on the day Russian forces took control of the Chernobyl site on 24 February, have been able to return home.

Japanese Waste and MOX Shipments from Europe Appendix: From BNFL Media Brief 4 December 1996, "Shipments of Nuclear Materials Between Europe and Japan"

This Position Statement presents the nuclear industry's perspective and policy on the important subject of decommissioning of civil nuclear industry sites.

The RBMK is an unusual reactor design, one of two to emerge in the Soviet Union. The design had several shortcomings, and was the design involved in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Major modifications have been made to the RMBK reactors still operating.

The changeover of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) staff at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has taken place, following a month-long delay, with the experts having to make part of the journey across the frontline by foot.

This information paper describes in detail the causes of the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi in March 2011 and the actions taken since.

This information paper describes in detail the causes of the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi in March 2011 and the actions taken since.

The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel. Two Chernobyl plant workers died on the night of the accident, and a further 28 people died within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation poison...