Platts - Monday, June 02, 2003 
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London (Platts)--2Jun2003

World nuclear power generation 2,574TWh in 2002: IAEA

The International Atomic Energy Agency data showed a
total of 441 nuclear power plants were operating around
the world at the end of 2002 and that global nuclear
electricity generation was about 2,574 TWh. 

Six nuclear power plants representing 5,013MW of
capacity was connected to the grid: four in China, one
in the Czech Republic and one in the Republic of Korea,
IAEA data showed. In addition, construction of seven new
nuclear reactors commenced in 2002: six in India and one
in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, bringing
the total number of nuclear reactors reported as being
under construction to 32. Four nuclear reactors were
shut down in 2002: two in Bulgaria and two in the United
Kingdom. 

This story was originally published in European Power
Alert.

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Bonn (Nuclear News Flashes)--30May2003

Japanese utilities will seek government help with
reprocessing costs

Japanese utilities will ask the government to help pay
reprocessing costs at the Rokkashomura separation plant,
which is expected to begin operating in two years,
Japanese sources said. The grounds for the request,
aired in closed-door meetings involving utility and
Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI) officials,
were made public last week when the Kyodo news wire
reported that the Federation of Electric Power Companies
(Fepco) estimated the cost of reprocessing Japanese
spent fuel for the next 40 years at 16-trillion Yen
(about U.S.$130-billion) but that the Japanese nuclear
power industry has not yet found sources for roughly 9-
trillion Yen (about $75-billion) of that cost. According
to senior Japanese utility sources, top management at
Japan's two leading nuclear power generators-- Tokyo
Electric Power Co. and Kansai Electric Power Co.--
support the Japanese government funding reprocessing for
reasons of long-term energy security. Some METI
officials, especially at its Agency for Natural
Resources & Energy, are also said to favor such a plan.

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Washington (Nuclear News Flashes)--30May2003

Justice joins NRDC lawsuit against Lockheed Martin
Energy

The Justice Department is joining a Natural Resources
Defense Council lawsuit against Lockheed Martin Energy
Systems that alleges, in part, the company submitted
false claims for million of dollars in government funds
while operating the Department of Energy's Paducah,
Kentucky gaseous diffusion plant from 1984-1998. The
NRDC also claimed in the legal action it filed in the US
District Court for western Kentucky in 1999 that the
company made false statements to DOE and to government
regulators regarding radioactive and hazardous chemical
wastes at the site and that some of the waste was
improperly disposed of in on-site landfills. "The
government is declining to intervene in other
allegations contained in the complaint such as that
[Lockheed Martin] Energy Systems improperly exposed
workers to radiation hazards and introduced
radioactively contaminated metals into interstate
commerce," Justice said Friday.

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