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Japan's Toshiba to buy 60% stake in British nuclear firm
Jan 15, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's Toshiba said Wednesday it would buy a controlling interest in British nuclear firm NuGeneration as it tries to rekindle an atomic business hammered by t...
Japan approves TEPCO business plan to switch on reactors
Jan 15, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's government on Wednesday approved a fresh business plan for the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant that includes restarting idled reactors ...
Hungary awards $14-billion nuclear project to Russia
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
Hungary on Tuesday tasked Russia's atomic energy corporation to more than double production at the EU nation's only nuclear power plant in a contract worth near...
UN nuclear experts to visit Iran on Saturday: report
Jan 13, 2014 (AFP)
UN nuclear experts will visit Iran on Saturday to prepare for a deal curbing the Islamic republic's atomic programme two days before it takes effect, an officia...
S. Korea president eying nuclear business on India trip
Jan 13, 2014 (AFP)
South Korea's president arrives this Wednesday in India on an official visit during which she is expected to push for some of the South Asian nation's nuclear b...
TEPCO to siphon off radioactive water from tunnels under Fukushima plant
Jan 13, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant plans to start cleaning underground tunnels believed to be part of the sources of radioactive ma...
Fukushima operator paid way over odds on procurement
Jan 10, 2014 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has paid way over the odds to contractors, a company spokesman said Friday, vowing to boost cost-contro...
Japan scientists to create controlled nuclear meltdown
Jan 09, 2014 (AFP)
A team of nuclear scientists in Japan said Thursday they plan to create a controlled reactor meltdown in a bid to learn how to deal with future disasters like t...
Greenland and Denmark to agree on uranium in 2014: Danish PM
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
An agreement between Greenland and Denmark governing uranium extraction in the Arctic territory will be in place by the end of the year, the Danish prime minist...
Westinghouse Announces Setting of AP1000 Plant Shield Building Conical Roofs
Jan 03, 2014 (SPX)
Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium team member CB&I and China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation announce the successful setting of the shi...
China loans Pakistan $6.5 bn for nuclear plants
Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)
China has agreed to lend Pakistan $6.5 billion to help build nuclear power stations including a 2,200-megawatt plant in Karachi, as Beijing increases its involv...
Saudi royal firm to file complaint against France's EDF
Dec 31, 2013 (AFP)
Saudi-owned Soroof International will file a complaint against French energy giant EDF, the conglomerate chaired by Prince Bandar bin Abdullah al-Saud said on T...
Fukushima operator readies new restructuring plan
Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)
Tokyo Electric Power Wednesday submitted a fresh restructuring plan to a Japanese government-backed fund that envisages the creation of a special unit to disman...
Solvay and AREVA team up to develop new thorium applications
Dec 24, 2013 (SPX)
Solvay and AREVA have signed an agreement to develop new applications for the use of thorium, an element that is abundantly present in the earth's crust and par...
Westinghouse Expands European Nuclear Center To Meet Growing Demand
Dec 24, 2013 (SPX)
Westinghouse Electric Company today inaugurated the extension of its European Maintenance Center in Nivelles, Belgium to provide scalable growth to support an i...
Romania says Enel, ArcelorMittal exit nuclear project
Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)
Energy giants Enel and ArcelorMittal will pull out of the construction of two nuclear reactors in Romania after a Chinese company entered the deal, Romanian off...
Finland's Fennovoima inks reactor deal with Russia's Rosatom
Dec 22, 2013 (AFP)
Finnish power company Fennovoima has signed an agreement with Russia's Rosatom for the delivery of a mid-sized nuclear reactor, the Finnish company said in a st...
Over 1,000 protest in Niger against French nuclear firm Areva
Dec 21, 2013 (AFP)
More than 1,000 demonstrators marched in the Niger capital Niamey on Saturday to protest against their country's "unbalanced" partnership with nuclear firm Arev...
Japan to boost financial support for Fukushima operator
Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)
Japan will nearly double financial support for the operator of Fukushima to $86 billion, as the government vowed to speed up the removal of contaminated soil an...
Fukushima's last two reactors to be decommissioned
Dec 19, 2013 (UPI)
Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, will decommission the facility's two remaining reactors, Units 5 and 6...
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