CIVIL NUCLEAR - INDO DAILY

France's Areva on the ropes after it suspends targets

Nov 19, 2014 (AFP)

Areva's share price plunged on Wednesday after the struggling French nuclear giant abandoned its financial targets for the next two years. The company's shares ...

Indonesia considers building nuclear power plant

Nov 14, 2014 (XNA)

To cope with the fast-growing demand for power supply in the country, Indonesia is considering building nuclear power plants with an initial capacity of 5,000 M...

Russia to build two more nuclear reactors for Iran

Nov 11, 2014 (AFP)

Russia signed Tuesday a contract to build two nuclear reactors in Iran and announced plans for a total of nine, less than two weeks before a deadline on for dea...

Japan local government approves first reactor restart

Nov 07, 2014 (AFP)

The final obstacle to restarting two nuclear reactors in Japan was removed Friday when local politicians granted approval for a plant to go back online, more th...

China's largest uranium mine reports more deposits

Nov 07, 2014 (XNA)

Chinese geologists have found more uranium deposits at China's largest uranium mine, Xinhua learned on Thursday. Geological exploration around the western areas...

S.Africa and China sign nuclear build agreement

Nov 07, 2014 (AFP)

South Africa has signed a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with China as the government looks to expand the critical power supply system, officials said Fri...

Drone suspects detained near French nuclear plant released

Nov 07, 2014 (AFP)

The mystery over a spate of unidentified drones spotted flying over French nuclear facilities deepened Friday after two men detained near a plant were released ...

Spent Fuel Removed From One Fukushima Reactor

Nov 06, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

The firm operating the incapacitated Fukushima nuclear power plant today announced its success in removing all the spent uranium fuel from one of the wrecked pl...

Chernobyl NPP: building the future of nuclear power safety

Nov 05, 2014 (SPX)

Igor Ivanovich, you manage unusual enterprise, survived in the past the worst world in the history of Nuclear industry accident, and currently dealing with deco...

Drones over French nuclear plants: what's the risk?

Nov 05, 2014 (AFP)

French authorities have been left scratching their heads as unidentified drones zoom over nuclear plants across the country and while they pose no danger to the...

Germany faces suits worth billions over nuclear phase-out

Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)

Germany's phase-out of nuclear energy has triggered over 20 lawsuits by big power companies who have demanded billions of euros in damages, said a government pa...

French nuclear plant hit by another mystery drone fly-over

Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)

A drone has flown over a nuclear plant in central France for the second time in two days, a source close to the case said Monday, the latest in a mysterious str...

Westinghouse to Supply Advanced Safety System to Ukraine Nuclear Power Plants

Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)

Westinghouse Electric Company has been awarded a contract by the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine (NNEGC Energoatom) to provide a passive h...

Fukushima operator TEPCO posts solid mid-term profit

Oct 31, 2014 (AFP)

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant posted a solid mid-term pre-tax profit Friday, despite not restarting idle nuclear reactors or hi...

More drones spotted over French nuclear power stations

Oct 31, 2014 (AFP)

French authorities said on Friday they had detected drones over two nuclear power plants, the latest in a baffling series of incidents across the country. A spo...

Postcards from the plasma edge

Oct 29, 2014 (SPX)

For magnetic fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of the p...

Calming the plasma edge: The tail that wags the dog

Oct 29, 2014 (SPX)

Experiments on the DIII-D tokamak that General Atomics operates for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have demonstrated the ability of lithium injections to t...

Using radio waves to control the density in a fusion plasma

Oct 29, 2014 (SPX)

Recent fusion experiments on the DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics (San Diego) and the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts), show that beamin...

Drones spotted over seven French nuclear sites, says EDF

Oct 29, 2014 (AFP)

France's state-run power firm EDF on Wednesday said unidentified drones had flown over seven nuclear plants this month, leading it to file a complaint with the ...

UT Nuclear Engineers Part of Three Grants Totaling $2.6 Million

Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)

Professors from the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are part of three separate nuclear safety research projects that collectiv...