The U.S Inspector General (IG) issued a report this week with respect to the way that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) handled the failure of an auxiliary feedwater system that required one of the nuclear reactors at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant near San Luis Obispo on the coast of California to be shut down for eight days.
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Finland is the first country to have a deep geological repository, referred to as ONKALO, under construction. It is due to start storing spent nuclear fuel in 2025. Trial runs will begin in 2023 according to Posiva, the company charged by the Finnish government with handling final nuclear waste disposal.
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The World Nuclear Fuel Conference 2022 was just held in London. Recent geopolitical events have not yet impacted the global uranium market according to speakers from uranium suppliers. They agreed that the longer-term future of the uranium market is uncertain.