Two decommissioning workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan were sprayed with radioactive waste while cleaning out pipes at the shuttered plant, the Associated Press reported this week.
Neither of the workers, who were both wearing protective gear, ingested any radioactive waste, AP reported, citing a statement from plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co. Both were hospitalized.
U.K.-owned cleanup corporation Nuclear Waste Services this week released its annual review for 2022 through 2023. The online document summarizes the group’s radioactive waste disposal efforts over the past year, including its work evaluating a site for a geological disposal facility.
Nuclear Waste Services is part of the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The authority is a non-departmental agency of the kingdom’s government funded by multiple public agencies.
Laurentis Energy Partners and EnergySolutions Canada this week marked the opening of the Western Clean Energy Sorting & Recycling Facility for Ontario Power Generation, according to a press release.
The facility is designed to minimize waste resulting from nuclear power generation, the companies wrote in the release.
Christian Poindexter, a naval aviator who assisted with the construction of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Maryland before becoming chief executive officer of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. and chair of Constellation Energy Group, died this week in Severna Park, Md., the Baltimore Sun reported.
Poindexter was 85. The paper did not report a cause of death.
