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November 23, 2002
The ATA news agency in Tirana today reported that a new centre of radiological and nuclear emergencies, connected with the national radioactivity monitoring network, is being set up close to Institute of Nuclear Physics in Tirana.
2000
In preparing the UNSCEAR 2000 report on "Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation", the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation sent every member nation a Survey of Exposures, asking expert quantification of the radiation exposures to populations in that nation from natural radiation sources. The respondents for Albania were R. Kushe (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tirana) and S. Bushati (Department of Radiometry, Center of Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration, Tirana).
March 9, 1993
The USA loosened up on the 10CFR110 restrictions on nuclear exports to Albania, since Albania is a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. [Ref: Nuclear News, "NRC changes on exports, physical protection", May 1993, p. 62]
August 20, 1990 - Albania announced on the eve of the NPT review conference that it had decided to accede to the NPT; the country will thus become the 141st signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. [Ref: Nuclear News, "Late News in Brief: The Fourth NPT Review Conference", Mid-September, 1990, p. 18A]
October 1, 1987
Albania wants to buy a research reactor. It has $1-million to spend. There are a couple of reactors available at close to that price -- Canada's Slowpoke and China's 27-KW Miniature Neutron Source Reactor. France might be able to scale down its 100-KW Siloette reactor to meet Albnia's budget. Argentina has reportedly offered a copy of its 500-kilowatt Bariloche research reactor. West Germany also reportedly entered a bid. [Ref: Ann MacLachlan (Vienna), "Albania is looking to buy a research reactor", Nucleonics Week, October 1, 1987, p. 12
September 10, 1987
Albania approached IAEA about starting up a small-scale nuclear physics experimentation program, with a research reactor as centerpiece. [Ref: Richard Kessler (Buenos Aires), "Argentina 'still undecided' on nuclear links with Albania", Nucleonics Week, September 10, 1987, p. 6]
May 21, 1987
Argentina's new government nuclear chief hopes to export nuclear supplies and services to countries including Albania. Such sales should be subject to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, she said. [Ref: Nuclear News, "Argentina: Still committed to nuclear, Alfonsin says", July 1987, p. 54]
1986
Mean individual dose to Albanians from Chernobyl accident (over 50-year period) is projected to be 300 microSieverts. The collective dose to Albanians over the same period is projected to be 830 person-Sieverts. The projections take into account inhalation from the passing cloud, ingestion through the food chain, and external irradiation from deposited radioactivity, and are based on the MESOS dispersion model developed by Helen ApSimon of Imperial College, as applied by W. Nixon, of the Safety and Reliability Directorate of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority. [Ref: Nuclear News, "Chernobyl doses across the continent", January 1987, p. 62]