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Angry Japan farmers bring Fukushima cow to Tokyo
Jun 20, 2014 (AFP)
Angry farmers from Fukushima brought a large cow to the centre of Tokyo Friday to demand Japan's government investigate a disease they say cattle have developed...
Nuclear waste dump plan on Aboriginal land abandoned
Jun 19, 2014 (AFP)
Plans to locate Australia's first nuclear waste dump in a remote outback area were dropped Thursday after a long battle with traditional Aboriginal landowners. ...
Japan minister apologises for Fukushima money gaffe
Jun 17, 2014 (AFP)
A Japanese cabinet minister apologised on Tuesday after appearing to suggest people in nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima could be persuaded to put up with contamin...
AREVA awarded a contract to provide services for Kozloduy 5 and 6 VVER nuclear reactors
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
AREVA has been selected by the operator of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) to provide services for the safety instrumentation and control (I and C) and ...
AREVA to provide additional modernization services for Gosgen Facility in Switzerland
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
AREVA has been selected by the Kernkraft Gosgen-Daniken AG to carry out two new projects for the Gosgen nuclear power plant in Switzerland. For the first projec...
India nuclear reactor attains 'full capacity'
Jun 07, 2014 (AFP)
The first reactor of India's largest nuclear plant -- dogged by protests and multiple delays -- reached full capacity for the first time Saturday, an official s...
French police raid Areva over UraMin purchase
Jun 03, 2014 (AFP)
French police Tuesday carried out a dozen raids concerning state-controlled nuclear giant Areva's controversial 2007 purchase of a Canadian uranium mining compa...
Nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land invalid, court told
Jun 02, 2014 (AFP)
The earmarking of a remote Australian outback area as a nuclear waste dump was invalid because officials failed to contact all traditional Aboriginal landowners...
Highly radioactive substance found in Swiss dump: report
Jun 01, 2014 (AFP)
A highly radioactive substance, emitting in some places radiation 100 times the permitted amount, has been discovered in Switzerland, local media reported Sunda...
Japan to replace anti-nuclear voices on industry watchdog
May 28, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's pro-nuclear government is to change some top officials at its nuclear regulator, officials said Wednesday, in what critics charge is an attempt to remov...
AREVA to monitor nuclear reactor fluid systems
May 26, 2014 (SPX)
AREVA has signed an agreement with the American engineering firm NUCCORP Inc. to be the exclusive supplier of the Nuclear Grade Air Trap (NGAT) technology to th...
Niger, Areva in hard-won uranium deal
May 26, 2014 (AFP)
The government of Niger and French nuclear energy group Areva announced on Monday that they had signed a deal to renew a decades-old agreement for the operation...
AREVA technologies recognize by the US Nuclear Energy Institute
May 26, 2014 (SPX)
AREVA's technologies received four awards through its customers at the Top Industry Practice Awards (TIP Awards) ceremony organized by the American Nuclear Ener...
Westinghouse Chosen To Fuel Three Vattenfall Reactors
May 26, 2014 (SPX)
Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it has been selected by Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel AB in Sweden to provide replacement nuclear fuel deliveries and...
Veolia eyes decommissioning Germany's nuclear plants
May 26, 2014 (AFP)
French group Veolia Environnement is hoping to move into the market for decommissioning nuclear power plants in Germany, one of its top executives said in a mag...
Japan to create underground ice wall at crippled nuclear plant
May 26, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's nuclear regulator on Monday approved a plan to freeze the soil under the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to try to slow the build-up of radioactive wat...
Japan utility appeals court injunction on reactor restarts
May 22, 2014 (AFP)
A Japanese utility on Thursday lodged an appeal against a ban on restarting two nuclear reactors, after a court came down on the side of campaigners for the fir...
Japan court rules against restart of nuclear reactors
May 21, 2014 (AFP)
A Japanese court ruled Wednesday against the restarting of two reactors at a nuclear power plant, acknowledging residents' safety fears and dealing a blow to th...
Fortum drops Areva-Siemens in favour of Rolls-Royce
May 21, 2014 (AFP)
Finnish power company Fortum said Wednesday it had terminated a contract with Areva and Siemens to modernise a nuclear plant in the southern town of Loviisa, an...
Japan Fukushima operator starts diverting groundwater to sea
May 21, 2014 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday it has begun a bypass system that diverts groundwater into the sea in a bid to reduce th...
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