Bushehr is Iran‘s only operating nuclear power plant and was built by Russia. Located on the Gulf Coast, at Bushehr, Russian fuel is used and then taken back to Russia when its spent in order to reduce nuclear proliferation risk, reported Reuters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has up to 600 staff at Bushehr, including 250 permanent workers and others on temporary assignment. He said Israel had issued a promise to Russia over their safety.
Israel attacked Iran‘s Isfahan nuclear site in the early hours of Saturday, the Fars news agency reported, saying there were no hazardous leaks or risk to the population. (,,,)
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Istanbul on Saturday, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, for a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as the conflict with Israel rages.
In a statement on the social platform X, the IAEA’s head Rafael Mariano Grossi was quoted as saying: “The IAEA is closely monitoring the deeply concerning situation in Iran. … The Agency is in contact with Iranian authorities regarding radiation levels. We are also in contact with our inspectors in the country.”
Mögliche strahlenbedingte Gesundheitsfolgen wie Hirn- und Herzinfarkte wurden von der westlichen Forschung lange nicht anerkannt. Doch neuere, länderübergreifende Studien an Atomarbeitern aus Frankreich, Großbritannien und den USA haben gezeigt, dass es auch bei relativ niedriger und langsam erfolgender Aufnahme von ionisierender Strahlung zu tödlichen Hirn- und Herzinfarkten infolge von Blutgefäßschädigung kommen kann.
French Polynesia, a French colonial territory in the Pacific, made up of hundreds of islands and atolls, including Tahiti, was the site of dozens of nuclear tests conducted by France over a period of 30 years.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will conduct low-altitude helicopter flights over downtown Washington, D.C. and areas in and around the Nation’s capital beginning on October 19 in preparation for the Presidential Inauguration. The inauguration is scheduled to take place on January 20, 2021.
30 August 2020 – UNDER THE PRESSURE of The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), The Australian Government is in a hurry to get a new bill passed. It‘s not really a new bill, it‘s actually a new bit tacked on to an existing one. It‘s called the National Radioactive Waste Management Amendment (Site Specification, Community Fund and Other Measures) Bill 2020.
The amendment does two important things: it selects a definite place in South Australia, a farmer‘s property called Napandee, as a radioactive waste dump and it removes the possibility of a judicial review of that selection.
Dafür verantwortlich könnte ein aktiver Reaktor sein oder ein Reaktor, der gerade gewartet werde, sagte die Internationale Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA) heute. Sie bekräftigte, dass die Emissionen weder für Umwelt noch für Menschen eine Gefahr darstellten.
Den Standort des Reaktors konnte die IAEA nach eigenen Angaben noch nicht bestimmen.