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Dust from the Sahara Desert blown north by strong seasonal winds to France did not only bring stunning light and sunsets - it also carried abnormal levels of radiation.
That s according to French NGO Acro (Association for Control of Radioactivity in the West), which monitors levels of radiation.
The radiation is not considered dangerous for human health but it did arrive in France with a big dollop of irony.
Acro said it comes from nuclear tests carried out by France in the Algerian desert at the beginning of the 1960s, when the North African country was a French overseas territory.
19 February 2021
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The Spanish nuclear regulator has approved the renewal of the operating licence for Iberdrola s Cofrentes nuclear power plant near Valencia until the end of November 2030. The 1064 MWe boiling water reactor, which entered commercial operation in March 1985, is then scheduled to be decommissioned.
The single-unit Cofrentes plant (Image: CSN)
At a meeting yesterday, the plenary of the Nuclear Safety Council (
Consejo De Seguridad Nuclear, CSN) approved a favourable report on Iberdrola s application for the renewal of the operating licence. The report is based on the results of assessments by the CSN, contained in 46 technical reports.
Iberdrola said it submitted in March 2020 all the required documentation, identified in the Periodic Safety Review, through which an in-depth and global assessment of the plant s safety status was made, and which served as the basis for the favourable evaluation by the CSN.
Berkeley Energia Limited s ( Berkeley or the Company ) focus continues to be on progressing the approvals required to commence construction of the Salamanca mine and bring it into production. During the quarter, the Company received formal notification from the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge ( MITECO ) that it had been granted the renewal of the Initial Authorisation for the uranium concentrate plant as a radioactive facility at the Salamanca project ( NSC I ) until there is a resolution on the Authorisation for Construction for the uranium concentrate plant as a radioactive facility ( NSC II ). This renewal follows the Nuclear Safety Council ( NSC ) issuing a favourable report for the extension of the validity of NSC I in July 2020.
Print this page MADRID - After 55 years, a group of U.S. veterans may be closer to securing disability benefits denied to them following a Cold War-era accident they say has now left them with serious medical conditions.
The accident involved the collision of two U.S. aircraft over Palomares in southern Spain and the ensuing discharge of radioactive materials from hydrogen bombs.
On January 17, 1966, a B-52 left a U.S. base in North Carolina on an airborne alert mission called Operation Chrome Dome. The flight path took the aircraft east across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea toward the eastern borders of the Soviet Union. The lengthy mission required two refueling flights over Spain.