An action plan has been drawn up by Areva to mitigate losses and orient itself for the long term. It involves the loss of up to 1500 jobs in Germany.听
While progress has been made in cooling the used fuel pool at Fukushima Daiichi unit 2, an inspection of the reactor building at unit 4 suggests workers may face problems setting up a similar cooling system there. Meanwhile, tests have confirmed that two workers have received radiation doses of over 650 millisieverts.
Investigations at unit 1 at Fukushima Daiichi suggest that most of the fuel in the reactor core melted and dropped to the bottom of the reactor vessel in the early stages of the accident. Work has started on installing a structure to cover the damaged reactor building.
A helicopter equipped with radiation detecting equipment has been used to scan almost 4000 hectares听of the听USA's Hanford nuclear reservation in search of听radioactive rabbit droppings.
Security workers at the Kursk nuclear power plant have been given a lesson on how to shoot by Russian Olympic trap shooting gold medallist Aleksei Alipov.
Energoatom has held its 5th Winter Spartakiad, with sportsmen from nine of Russia's nuclear power plants and the company's headquarters competing in cross-country skiing, Alpine skiing, polyathlon and snow football.