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AREVA wins additional contract from the US DoE for the development of Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel
Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)
AREVA Federal Services (AFS), an AREVA subsidiary in the United States, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue the devel...
Austria to challenge 'scandalous' British nuclear deal
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
Austria will launch a legal challenge if the European Commission approves Britain's ambitious plan to build its first new nuclear plant in a generation, Vienna'...
16,000 demonstrators rally against restarting Japan nuke plant
Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)
Some 16,000 people rallied Tuesday in the Japanese capital against the government's plan to restart nuclear reactors, more than three years after the Fukushima ...
South Africa says no Russian nuclear reactor deal, yet
Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)
South Africa's government on Tuesday said it had not yet awarded Russia a deal worth as much as $50 billion to develop eight nuclear reactors, saying the countr...
South Africa in '$50 bn deal' for Russian nuclear reactors
Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)
Russia's atomic energy agency said Monday it will provide up to eight nuclear reactors to South Africa by 2023 in a $50 billion strategic partnership between th...
Britain's blockbuster nuclear deal to get EU nod
Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)
The EU will recommend approval of Britain's ambitious plan to build its first nuclear plant in a generation, with backing from French and Chinese energy giants,...
Japan minister attempts to convince public on nuclear
Sep 21, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's new industry minister Yuko Obuchi said Sunday the resource-poor nation should be realistic about its energy needs as the government tries to convince a ...
Finnish Greens quit government in nuclear row
Sep 18, 2014 (AFP)
Finland's Green League party said Thursday it was leaving the ruling coalition over the approval by the government of a nuclear plant project to be built by Rus...
Boosting armor for nuclear-waste eating microbes
Sep 18, 2014 (SPX)
A microbe developed to clean up nuclear waste and patented by a Michigan State University researcher has just been improved. In earlier research, Gemma Reguera,...
Iran's current uranium enrichment 'not acceptable': US
Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)
Iran cannot convince the world that its current ability to enrich uranium is acceptable, the top US negotiator said on Tuesday ahead of new nuclear talks with g...
Westinghouse Launches New Outage Control Center
Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)
Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the opening of the company's first outage control center to provide vital central monitoring and response to its uti...
AREVA signs a contract to manufacture a panel prototype for ITER project
Sep 16, 2014 (SPX)
AREVA signed a contract with the agency Fusion for Energy* which gathers the European partners of the ITER fusion project, to manufacture a "first wall" panel p...
Westinghouse Signs Agreements with China's SNPAS
Sep 15, 2014 (SPX)
Westinghouse Electric Company has announced it signed two instrumentation and control (I&C) system cooperation agreements with China's State Nuclear Power Autom...
Japan newspaper apologises for false Fukushima report
Sep 11, 2014 (AFP)
The publisher of Japan's leading newspaper apologised to readers Thursday for several serious errors in its reporting, retracting an article that claimed worker...
Japan nuclear watchdog backs restart of two reactors
Sep 10, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's nuclear watchdog Wednesday gave a green light to plans to restart two reactors, more than three years after the Fukushima disaster. However, hurdles sti...
DSIT Solutions of Israel helps with nuclear power plant security
Sep 08, 2014 (UPI)
An underwater security system to protect a nuclear power plant against divers and unmanned vehicles has been ordered from Israel's DSIT Solutions Ltd. The compa...
Japan's first female industry chief visits Fukushima plant
Sep 07, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's new industry minister Yuko Obuchi on Sunday visited the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, days after assuming her new post. Obuchi, a 40-...
Japan places political star at heart of nuclear revival
Sep 06, 2014 (AFP)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have hoped that a 40-year-old mother-of-two with impeccable political pedigree might prove the acceptable face of nuclear...
Australia, India sign long-awaited civil nuclear deal
Sep 05, 2014 (AFP)
Conservative leaders Tony Abbott and Narendra Modi sealed a long-awaited nuclear energy deal on Friday, paving the way for Australia to sell uranium to India, c...
Suspended sentences for Greenpeace nuclear protesters
Sep 04, 2014 (AFP)
A French court Thursday slapped two-month suspended prison sentences on 55 Greenpeace activists who launched an audacious break-in at France's oldest nuclear po...
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