CIVIL NUCLEAR - INDO DAILY

Areva names number two Knoche as interim CEO

Oct 22, 2014 (AFP)

French nuclear giant Areva said Wednesday its chief operating officer Philippe Knoche would take over as interim chief executive after CEO Luc Oursel stepped do...

AREVA introduces SIBAG, the first serious game simulator for training nuclear operators

Oct 16, 2014 (SPX)

AREVA has unveiled SIBAG, an innovative training system, at the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris. The system is designed to foster the development of best habi...

Vattenfall seeks 4.7 bn euros for German nuclear phase-out: government sources

Oct 15, 2014 (AFP)

Swedish energy group Vattenfall is demanding 4.7 billion euros ($6.0 billion) in damages from Germany following Berlin's decision to phase out nuclear power and...

Taiwan reveals new plans to send nuclear waste abroad

Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)

Taiwan on Tuesday unveiled plans to process nuclear waste abroad for the first time as its power plants reach capacity -- but environment groups slammed the pro...

France and South Africa sign nuclear energy agreement

Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)

Paris and Pretoria signed Tuesday an agreement which could open the way for French nuclear giant Areva to bid to build eight nuclear reactors in South Africa wo...

S.Africa to ink nuclear pact with France

Oct 10, 2014 (AFP)

South Africa, which plans a multi-billion dollar nuclear energy build, will sign a nuclear cooperation agreement with France, the government said Friday. The an...

French parliament votes to cut nuclear energy reliance

Oct 10, 2014 (AFP)

Lawmakers in France, the world's most nuclear-dependent country, on Friday voted to cut reliance on the energy source from more than 75 percent to 50 percent wi...

Radioactivity spikes hit Santa's helpers in Norway

Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)

Almost three decades after the Chernobyl disaster thousands of kilometres away, a jump in radioactivity levels is making Norwegian reindeer meat unfit for consu...

India nuclear plant guard kills three in shooting spree

Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)

A paramilitary officer charged with guarding a nuclear plant shot and killed three of his colleagues on Wednesday in a shooting spree at their base in southern ...

EU approves UK's first nuclear plant for a generation

Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)

The EU on Wednesday approved Britain's ambitious plan to build its first nuclear plant for a generation, with French and Chinese help, marking a major victory f...

Ship with radioactive waste threatens North Sea rig

Oct 08, 2014 (UPI)

Helicopters pulled staff from the Beatrice oil rig in the North Sea because of the approach of a ship carrying radioactive waste, authorities said Wednesday. Ca...

Westinghouse Signs Eight Additional U.S. Nuclear Fuel Contracts

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

Westinghouse Electric Company has announced it has booked nearly $500M worth of additional nuclear fuel contracts with eight utility customers in its Americas r...

Bolivia to spend $2 bn on nuclear energy plant: Morales

Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)

Bolivia's President Evo Morales on Thursday announced plans to spend two billion dollars to build a nuclear energy plant, with construction set to get underway ...

Moscow, Kazakhstan initial deal to build Kazakh nuclear plant

Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)

Moscow and Kazakhstan have initialled an agreement on jointly building and operating what would become Kazakhstan's only nuclear power plant, Russia's nuclear a...

Sweden's Social Democrats and Greens agree on nuclear freeze

Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)

Sweden's Social Democrats and Greens, in negotiations to form a government, announced Wednesday they had reached an agreement to freeze nuclear energy developme...

SAfrica denies corruption in Russia nuclear plant pact

Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)

South Africa denied Wednesday any corruption was involved in a multi-billion dollar nuclear energy deal after controversy erupted over whether Russia had won th...

Fukushima operator, Sellafield to compare nuclear notes

Sep 30, 2014 (AFP)

The operator of Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear plant announced Tuesday it had agreed to share knowledge and experience on decommissioning damaged re...

India turns to nuclear as energy crisis deepens

Sep 28, 2014 (AFP)

India's new prime minister is turning to nuclear energy to ease a power crisis made worse by the cancellation of hundreds of coal mining permits, but he faces s...

Sandia magnetized fusion technique produces significant results

Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little m...

Los Alamos researchers uncover new properties in nanocomposite oxide ceramics for reactor fuel, fast-ion conductors

Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)

Nanocomposite oxide ceramics have potential uses as ferroelectrics, fast ion conductors, and nuclear fuels and for storing nuclear waste, generating a great dea...