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  • Hospital scans delayed 6 Sep 2008 11:31 GMT
    ... would normally need. Normally it does 90 nuclear tests a week, 80 of which are ... weeks. The problem was caused when a reactor in Holland was shut down unexpectedly in ... global demand and more than half of Europe's needs. Europe's other two reactors were already ...

  • Belene powers on 6 Sep 2008 06:31 GMT
    ... - Elitsa Grancharova Construction site at Belene nuclear power station on April 4 2008. Photo: ... The project, which he described as a European-Russian one, would guarantee Bulgaria’s nuclear security. Belene’s ... guarantee Bulgaria’s nuclear security. Belene’s twin 1000MW reactors will be built by Atomstroyexport, controlled by ...

  • Hundreds of patients face delays over vital cancer scans 6 Sep 2008 03:46 GMT
    ... in more than 80% of routine diagnostic nuclear imaging procedures. Professor Alan Perkins, honorary secretary ... cases. Wolfram Knapp, president- elect of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, this week warned ... of a global shortage. The high flux reactor in Petten, in the Netherlands, was shut ...

  • Patients will face delays in getting diagnostic scans due to severe shortage of imaging agents 6 Sep 2008 02:59 GMT
    ... imaging agents Letter: Medical isotope supplies and nuclear medicine services A global shortage of medical ... to diagnostic examinations across the UK and Europe in the next few weeks, predict experts ... sub-optimal treatment. Currently Europe's three isotope production reactors are all shut down because of maintenance ...

  • Global shortage of isotopes puts hundreds of cancer scans in doubt 6 Sep 2008 02:49 GMT
    ... more than 80 per cent of routine nuclear imaging tests used to diagnose disease. Professor ... been caused by the temporary closure of reactors that produce the isotopes. Europe's three reactors have shut for maintenance, and ...

  • Isotope shortage may delay scans 6 Sep 2008 02:29 GMT
    ... doctors have warned. Three of the five reactors which produce molybedenum-99 have been shut down, ... it gets better Professor Alan Perkins British Nuclear Medicine Society A wide variety of tests, ... produced. There are three commercial reactors in Europe which produce the isotope and all of ...

  • Europe faces shortage of isotope used in cancer diagnosis, industry group says 5 Sep 2008 19:33 GMT
    ... evaluations, brain scans and other procedures. The European Association of Nuclear Medicine, representing doctors, said in a statement ... shortage comes after two of the few reactors that are set up to produce the ...

  • European shortage of isotope used to detect cancer 5 Sep 2008 18:58 GMT
    ... AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - European hospitals face a shortage of a key ... shortage comes after two of the few reactors that are set up to produce the ... discuss the situation. The European Association of Nuclear Medicine said in a statement Thursday it ...

  • India's statement generates 'positive momentum' in Vienna 5 Sep 2008 18:36 GMT
    ... From correspondents in Europe, 07:02 PM IST Indian Foreign Minister Pranab ... was praised as 'very significant' by the Nuclear Suppliers' Group and seemed to have generated ... that controls global supply of nuclear fuel, reactors and technologies. 'This is a very significant ...

  • How to get a merger on the road 5 Sep 2008 17:16 GMT
    ... credit-wary customers. Growing regulatory pressures, including at EU level to combat climate change, leave him ... dependence on freshly belligerent Russia via a nuclear renaissance inter alia. Lauvergeon has said the ... will build up to 400 new nuclear reactors up to 2030 and Areva wants to ...

  • Jobs boost as Fylde duo sign up deal 5 Sep 2008 13:28 GMT
    ... NUCLEAR power giant Toshiba Westinghouse has signed a ... to supply parts to make the AP1000 reactor. Salwick is one of a number of ... passed all the steps for use in Europe and is the only reactor to receive ...

  • Bush intends to punish Moscow 5 Sep 2008 13:05 GMT
    ... by canceling a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. With ... storage of spent nuclear fuel from American-supplied reactors around the world. Such a deal was ... to take punitive measures in concert with Europe. But they have been frustrated at the ...

  • `Will punish Russia for Georgia attack` 5 Sep 2008 12:31 GMT
    ... by cancelling a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation between the two countries. With relations ... storage of spent nuclear fuel from American-supplied reactors around the world. Such a deal was ... to take punitive measures in concert with Europe. But they have been frustrated at the ...

  • Bush to punish Moscow for Georgia invasion 5 Sep 2008 12:30 GMT
    ... speaking during a media conference after an EU summit in Brussels, Monday. EU leaders will ... by canceling a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. With ... storage of spent nuclear fuel from American-supplied reactors around the world. Such a deal was ...

  • China tested nukes for Pakistan, gave design 5 Sep 2008 06:57 GMT
    ... with immense suspicion in the matter of nuclear trade predicated on tests, it turns out ... the primary. It is clear from the reactor-to-bomb progression times that by 1968 China had ... by 1968 China had unequivocally entered the European nuclear cartel on a par with the ...


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