Nukem Energy
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The Nukem GmbH is a company in the field of nuclear technology.
History
By mid-2006 it was as RWE Nukem over its then parent company RWE Solutions, a company of the RWE Group. Following the sale of RWE Solutions Group to the financial investor Advent International, the name was changed into Nukem. Nukem is nuclear chemistry and metallurgy.
The company originally had its headquarters in Hanau, where the main skills lay in the production of fuel. This plant is now shut down and - apart from soil remediation measures - completely dismantled. Nukem has since been split organisationally and legally into two areas:
- Nukem Technologies: decommissioning and dismantling of nuclear facilities, and
- Nukem: trafficking of nuclear fuel and special stable ( non-radioactive ) isotopes (eg, 10B, 11B, D 2 O, DZO, 17O )
The former subsidiary in the U.S., Nukem Corp.. , And in the UK, Ltd. Nukem. Were sold to each Energy Solutions and Freyssinet ( a subsidiary of the Vinci Group ). In December 2009, Nukem Technologies GmbH was taken over by the Russian nuclear power plant manufacturer Atomstroiexport for 23.5 million euros. In the final report of the AG aces inventory is found, however, that there is no clear successor for more research on the retention of Nukem in the Asse mine.
The German Nukem Energy GmbH was acquired in January 2013 by the Canadian Cameco Corporation.
Atomic storage and transfusion scandal Nukem nuclear
The end of the 60s realized division of labor saw before, the NUKEM fuel elements for research reactors. The NUKEM daughters Alkem and RBU were responsible for the production of uranium fuel corpse in water reactors ( RBU ) and for MOX fuel in light water reactors and breeders.
In March 1987, it came as a result of an investigation into the system of the Trans nuclear Hanau ( TNH ) for the unveiling of irregularities in the Department of radioactive waste. The Nukem was involved in this scandal with its subsidiary.
On 1 July 1987 Nukem parts of their system laid still and so drew first consequences of safety concerns, the Hessian Environment Minister Karlheinz Weimar ( CDU). Weimar gave Nukem on July 9, 1987, a list of deficiencies that would leave the company immediately.
On September 17, 1987 Nukem took with the permission of the Minister of the Environment to operate again. On 17 December 1987 deprived German Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer ( CDU ) of the Nukem subsidiary Trans nuclear because of reported bribes permission to transport radioactive waste. On 16 December 1987 it was announced that Trans nuclear had brought from the Nuclear Research Center ( Study Center for Nuclear Energy ) in Mol, Belgium, barrels of highly radioactive content illegally to Germany. The end of December in 1987, the company spokesperson announced that it has this to 1,942 barrels, which are mainly located at sites of nuclear power plants. The Hessian state government requested a leave of absence as a consequence of the members of the Board Peter Jelinek - Fink and Karl -Gerhard Hackstein.
This was followed in January 1988, a report by a journalist, was in the alleged enriched fissile material had been transferred from the stocks Nukem to Libya or Pakistan.
On 14 January 1988, the Federal Environment Ministry suspended the operating license for Nukem for unauthorized storage of nuclear waste barrels with high levels of cesium 135, cobalt 60 and plutonium and the significant doubt of the atom, legitimate reliability of the company expire. Then there were allegations Nukem was aware of illegal practices of subsidiary Trans nuclear, including the wrongly declared nuclear waste shipments between the Belgian Mol and Germany as well as the payment of DM 21 million in bribes.
After these allegations were refuted, was on May 18, 1988, a rehabilitation for Jelinek - Fink and Hack Stone. After finished Jelinek - Fink its activities carried Nukem. As a result, he took over in 1988 the line of the Washington Liaison Office of Urenco.