International Conference on Radiation Protection in Medicine: Achieving Change in Practice
2017-12-14
The use of ionizing radiation in medicine is well established, and has resulted in tremendous benefit to humankind in diagnosing and treating diseases. While the medical benefits are unquestionable, there is growing evidence of unintended and unnecessary use of radiation in medicine, creating the need for stronger radiation protection in medicine. For this purpose, the Bonn Call for Action was cre...
Jordan Atomic Energy Commission signs MOU with U.S. X-Energy
2017-12-03
The Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) and the U.S X Energy, LLC (X-Energy) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to assess X-energy's advanced nuclear reactor - the Xe-100 – and its potential for deployment in Jordan.
Chairman JAEC Dr. Khaled Toukan said in a press statement that "the HTR's potential once implemented, will provide Jordan with opportunities tha...
EMRC issues licence activating Jordan nuclear reactor at JUST
2017-11-14
AMMAN — The Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission (EMRC) on Monday issued a licence to activate the Jordan nuclear reactor for research and training at the Jordan University of Science and Technology with a capacity of 5 mega watts, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
EMRC Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Farouq Hiari stressed in a press release on Monday that the com...
Radioactive cloud that covered Europe might be from Russia. Don’t worry about it though
2017-11-13
Somewhere in Russia in the last week of September, the French government believes, something happened.
It’s hard to say much more than that, except whatever the event was, it sent a cloud of radioactive isotopes — Ruthenium-106, named after Russia — wafting over Europe for thousands of miles.
Also: don’t worry about it. The Institute for Radiological Prote...
Jordan: Nuclear Safety Center to be Launched
2017-10-29
Amman, Oct 28, Measures are underway to set up a radiation protection and nuclear safety centre to control the use of nuclear and radioactive materials and combat their smuggling, Energy and Mineral Regulatory Commission (EMRC) Chief Commissioner, Farouq Hiyari, announced Saturday.
In a press statement, he stressed the importance of the centre, whose by-law was endorsed by the Council of ...
The robot that could help clean up Fukushima
2017-10-24
An aquatic robot called Avexis is being tested in Japan ahead of being deployed into the damaged core of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Reuters’ Matthew Stock reports.
The Avexis robot takes its first plunge into a nuclear waste silo at the Sellafield plant in northern England. Small and nimble enough to squeeze into places human can’t… it’s helping su...
Cooperation with IAEA contributes to Kuwait's development plan - KISR
2017-09-25
VIENNA, Sept 23 (KUNA) -- Cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will contribute to Kuwait's ambitious development plan, said a top official at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) Saturday.
In a statement to KUNA after the conclusion of the IAEA's 61st General Conference, held between September 18 and 22, KISR's Director General Dr. Samira Al...
UAE: FANR Board of Management Discusses International Cooperation in Nuclear Regulation
2017-09-12
The Board of Management of the UAE’s Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) convened at its premises to review current progress of the country’s lead nuclear regulator in terms of nuclear safety, security and safeguards.
The meeting, presided over by His Excellency Abdulla Nasser Al Suwaidi, Chairman of FANR, reviewed an update about status of operating license application...
World's biggest X-ray laser opens vast research vistas
2017-09-05
A sleek, subterranean X-ray laser to be unveiled Friday in Germany, by far the most powerful in the world, has scientists in a dozen fields jostling to train its mighty beam on their projects.
European XFEL will reveal—and capture in images—secrets at the sub-atomic level, promising breakthroughs in medicine, biology, energy, information technology and chemistry.
It will m...
Russian scientists teach robot monitoring radiation in Arctic
2017-08-14
MOSCOW, August 8. Scientists and engineers of the Russian Academy of Scientists' Shirshov Institute of Oceanography completed successful tests on the Ladoga Lake of a new on-water robot, which may work at the depth of 300 meters and which will be used, among other tasks, to monitor the radiation situation in the Kara Sea, head of the Institute's laboratory Boris Rozman said on Tuesday.
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