Tokyo: Areva Mitsubishi Joint Venture ‘ATMEA’ has announced that it has received a favorable final report and findings of the review of ATMEA1 reactor safety objectives and options by the French nuclear safety authority (ASN). The ATMEA1 reactor is an Mid-sized 1100 MWe Generation III+ pressurized water reactor (PWR). In June 2011, ATMEA had announced [...]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. release says that it has begun installing the Radioactive Waste Storage Facility Equipment equipment at the site of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. (TEPCO). The facility is for temporary storage of radioactive waste (sludge) generated in the processing of radiation-tainted water. The storage [...]