65,000 nuclear pallets produced for Cernavoda nuclear power plant
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The 65,000th nuclear pallet was produced on Tuesday for the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, eastern Romania, at the Nuclear Fuel Factory in Pitesti, southern Romania. Spokeswoman for the National Company Nuclearelectrica Mihaela Stipol told Rompres that the 65,000 pallets include 1,235 tonnes of natural uranium, and the energy resulting in their use is equivalent to that which could be produced by burning 144 million tonnes of brown coal, 72 million tonnes of pit coal or 20.6 million tonnes ...