Antinuclear

Australian company involved in a nuclear power mess in Egypt

As usual, trouble for Australian uranium, or nuclear-involved countries overseas, does not reach the Australian media. The troubles and losses of Paladin uranium company, over recent years, in Africa, have been ignored.

Likewise Australian company Worley Parsons has not suffered in the media, the embarrassment of its involvement with the fiasco that is Egypt’s new nuclear reactor

“WorleyParsons has the contract with the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Authority (NPPA) for a consultancy services contract to support the delivery of the first Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant….  a major milestone in the development of nuclear power generation in Egypt and WorleyParsons is very proud to be associated with the NPPA in this exciting project… It also demonstrates our leading position in the global nuclear new build arena.” – from Worley Parsons website

Soldiers and the demonstrators threw stones at each other and exchanged gunfire after the protesters demolished a wall surrounding the site, a security source and witnesses said…

Radioactive material stolen from Egyptian power station: report Reuters  Jan 19, 2012 CAIRO – Radioactive material has been stolen from a nuclear power station on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast that was the scene of violent protests last week, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday.

A safe containing radioactive material at the Dabaa nuclear power plant, which is still under construction, was seized while another also containing radioactive material was broken open and part of its contents taken, the newspaper said.

In Vienna, an official of the U.N. nuclear agency described the items
missing as “low-level radioactive sources” which had been taken from a
laboratory at the construction site. He could not give any details on
the nature of the stolen items….. More than a dozen people were
wounded last week when military police tried to disperse hundreds of
Egyptian protesters demanding the relocation of the Dabaa plant.

Plant staff have refused to go to the site because of the
deterioration in the security situation there, al-Ahram said.

About 500 Egyptians rallied in front of the plant last week to demand
that the project be terminated, with some saying they had lost their
land on the site.

Soldiers and the demonstrators threw stones at each other and
exchanged gunfire after the protesters demolished a wall surrounding
the site, a security source and witnesses said…
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/19/radioactive-material-stolen-from-egyptian-power-station-report/

January 20, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, business, safety