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Romania, China ink nuclear cooperation agreements
Nov 25, 2013 (AFP)
Romania and China on Monday signed two nuclear cooperation agreements expected to give China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) a role in Romania's sole Cernavod...
UN nuclear watchdog in Japan for Fukushima review
Nov 25, 2013 (AFP)
The UN's nuclear watchdog on Monday kicked off a review of Japan's efforts to shut down the disaster-hit Fukushima plant after its operator began removing nucle...
Westinghouse eyes nuclear power plants for Saudis
Nov 22, 2013 (UPI)
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil producer, is pressing ahead with an ambitious plan to build a chain of nuclear power plants to boost its electricity-gener...
AREVA and Wroclaw University of Technology sign memorandum of understanding
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
AREVA and Wroclaw University of Technology signed, on November 15th, a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in common Education and Research activities i...
Westinghouse and John Barrow Celebrate Construction Progress at Plant Vogtle
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
Westinghouse Electric Company and its nuclear construction consortium partners achieved a significant milestone as the 40 hour and 46 minute continuous placemen...
Bolivia says it's on track to develop nuclear power
Nov 19, 2013 (UPI)
Bolivia is on track to develop a national nuclear power program for peaceful civilian purposes that include building electricity export capacity in the country,...
IAEA experts to revisit Fukushima to review shutdown plan
Nov 19, 2013 (AFP)
UN nuclear experts will visit Japan again next week to review government efforts to shut down the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant and prevent further worryin...
Fukushima operator starts dangerous fuel-rod removal
Nov 18, 2013 (AFP)
Workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant on Monday began moving fuel rods from a reactor building, in their most difficult and dangerous task since a tsunami ...
Fukushima operator TEPCO to cut 1,000 more jobs: newspaper
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant plans to slash more than 1,000 jobs through voluntary retirement in addition to its ongoing strea...
Improving detection of radioactive material in nuclear waste water
Nov 15, 2013 (SPX)
As the Fukushima crisis continues to remind the world of the potential dangers of nuclear disposal and unforeseen accidents, scientists are reporting progress t...
Ex-Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi urges zero nuclear power
Nov 13, 2013 (UPI)
A former Japanese prime minister has urged the government to abandon plans to restart the nation's nuclear power generating plants. Speaking at the Japan Press ...
Former PM Koizumi calls for nuclear-free Japan
Nov 12, 2013 (AFP)
Flamboyant former Japanese premier Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday called on his one-time protege and the nation's current leader to abandon nuclear power as anti-...
SUSI Robot used in reactor lifetime extension project
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
AREVA has used its innovative technology to complete a first of a kind inspection for the lifetime extension of a reactor's primary system in the United States....
AREVA wins a major contract for third nuclear reactor at Angra
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
AREVA has signed a contract worth 1.25 billion euros with the Brazilian electrician Eletrobras Eletronuclear for the completion of the construction for the Angr...
Energy on Putin's Vietnam agenda
Nov 11, 2013 (UPI)
Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Vietnam is expected to be a boost to the Southeast Asian country's energy sector, including nuclear power. Putin is ...
Volume of nuclear waste could be reduced by 90 percent
Nov 08, 2013 (SPX)
The researchers, from the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering, have shown that mixing plutonium-contaminated waste with blast furnace slag and turn...
Fukushima operator TEPCO considers split: report
Nov 08, 2013 (AFP)
The operator of the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant could voluntarily split itself up into separate firms as part of the government's drive to deregulate t...
Japan's Toshiba to buy British nuclear firm: report
Nov 08, 2013 (AFP)
Toshiba plans to buy a controlling interest in British nuclear firm NuGeneration in a bid to rekindle its atomic business which has not drawn any new orders sin...
Fukushima plant readies for delicate fuel rod removal
Nov 07, 2013 (AFP)
Nuclear engineers in Japan are preparing to move uranium and plutonium fuel rods at Fukushima, their most difficult and dangerous task since the plant's runaway...
Fukushima plant readies for dangerous fuel rod removal
Nov 07, 2013 (AFP)
Nuclear engineers in Japan are preparing to move uranium and plutonium fuel rods at Fukushima, their most difficult and dangerous task since the plant's runaway...
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