All of the active and shuttered nuclear power plants in the U.S. either had enough money in their decommissioning trust funds as of the end of 2023 or had a good explanation for why they did not, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote in a report dated December and published online this week.
That’s according to the NRC’s 2023 biennial decommissioning status report, which every two years sums up a survey of the country’s operating reactors and reactors already being decommissioned.
After discharges of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan, China’s imports of Japanese seafood fell 40% year-over-year in 2023, the English-language website of Japanese wire service Kyodo News reported.
The trade in 2023 was worth just under $300 million, Kyodo said, the lowest level since 2020, when imports fell off a cliff in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The federal government has since withdrawn most of its vaccine requirements.
The Canadian government gave Moltex Energy of Canada, Saint John, New Brunswick, a patent for its spent nuclear fuel recycling process, the company announced last week.
The process converts uranium oxide fuel into molten salt reactor fuel, the company said in its press release.
