Germans divert spent fuel to Dounreay

Article Abstract:

Hahn Meitner Institute (HMI) of Germany has reached an agreement with the Dounreay reprocessing plant in Scotland for the transfer of spent nuclear fuel elements containing bomb-grade highly enriched uranium. The fuel elements were originally meant to be shipped to the US under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors Agreement with US, but the US could not import it because of strong protests from environmentalists and legal hassles. HMI has clarified its stand on the basis of overloading of its nuclear storage facilities.

Contracts, United States. Department of Energy, Reactor fuel reprocessing, Fuel reprocessing (Nuclear reactors), Hahn-Meitner Institute for Nuclear Research

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West Germans are taking most top jobs at eastern institutes

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Most top jobs at research institutes in the former East Germany are being filled by scientists from the former West Germany. This is inspite of earlier policies that Germany would try to fill 10% of positions at all levels in these research institutes with western scientists. Although conditions are substandard in the former East Germany, western scientists tend to gravitate towards them because of stiff competition for top jobs in the west.

Human resource management, Germany, Research institutes, Social policy

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German scientists left in the cold as Berlin rejects rescue plan

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Berlin, Germany, is withdrawing from an agreement to co-finance a plan which guarantees permanent employment in universities to scientists from the former East Germany. Around 200 scientists now face unemployment.

Economic policy, Berlin, Germany, East Germany

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