CIVIL NUCLEAR - INDO DAILY

Westinghouse, Toshiba And Exelon To Team Up For Saudi Nuclear Project

Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)

Westinghouse Electric Company, Toshiba Corporation and Exelon Nuclear Partners (ENP), have announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) t...

Westinghouse Contracted to Segment Spain's Jose Cabrera Nuclear Reactor Vessel

Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)

Westinghouse Electric Company has been awarded a contract by ENRESA (Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos), the Spanish agency responsible for radioactive w...

Queensland aims to resume uranium mining

Sep 12, 2013 (UPI)

The government of the Australian state of Queensland has released a plan to resume uranium mining as early as next year. While Australia has the world's largest...

'Lighten up' French mag tells Japan in Fukushima row

Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)

A French satirical weekly Thursday shrugged off Japanese outrage over cartoons mocking the decision to award the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo despite the Fukushima nu...

Taiwan nuclear power plant progresses amid resistance

Sep 11, 2013 (UPI)

Taiwan's controversial fourth nuclear power plant could be ready for loading of fuel rods as early as this month, the government says. Testing of the Lungmen Nu...

S. Korea ex-vice minister charged in nuclear graft probe

Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)

A former deputy minister has been charged with taking bribes as part of a corruption probe into South Korea's nuclear industry which has already indicted nearly...

AREVA completes first major component decontamination in France

Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)

AREVA has successfully decontaminated the major components of the Chooz A nuclear power plant located in Northern France. The first project of its kind performe...

Merkel faces election scrap over German energy shift

Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stunned the world in 2011 by deciding to scrap nuclear power for renewables, but as election day approaches, a fight has broken ...

Fukushima far from solved, say Abe's Games critics

Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)

Japan's efforts to clean up its nuclear disaster face intense global scrutiny ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, observers say, but despite government promises that F...

Five questions to ask when reassessing a nuclear power plant's operating margins

Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)

When an incident, an inspection or an audit triggers a finding or corrective action at a nuclear facility, that doesn't always spell trouble. The reality is-wit...

London Olympics-style authority touted to build British nuke plants

Sep 09, 2013 (UPI)

Britain could end delays in building nuclear power plants if it had an Olympics-style government authority to oversee the process, the 2012 London Games' chief ...

Charges dropped against Japan's ex-PM, TEPCO over Fukushima

Sep 09, 2013 (AFP)

Japanese prosecutors on Monday decided not to charge former prime minister Naoto Kan and TEPCO bosses over the initial stages of the nuclear disaster at Fukushi...

Finnish group, Rosatom reach agreement on new nuclear power plant

Sep 06, 2013 (UPI)

A consortium seeking to build a nuclear power plant in northern Finland said this week it has reached a deal to partner with Russian nuclear company Rosatom. Fe...

Fukushima tank leak may have mixed with groundwater: TEPCO

Sep 05, 2013 (AFP)

Highly radioactive water leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant may have seeped into groundwater flowing towards the Paci...

Russia, Britain agree nuclear power reactors deal

Sep 05, 2013 (AFP)

Russian state nuclear company Rosatom, Rolls-Royce and Finnish utility Fortum agreed on Thursday to consider building nuclear power plants in Britain. "A cooper...

Japan unveils ice wall plan for Fukushima water leaks

Sep 03, 2013 (AFP)

Tokyo on Tuesday unveiled a half-billion dollar plan to stem radioactive water leaks at Fukushima, creating a wall of ice underneath the stricken plant, as the ...

Fukushima water release unavoidable: Japan nuke watchdog

Sep 02, 2013 (AFP)

Japan's nuclear watchdog chief said Monday that contaminated water from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant must be released into the ocean eventually, warning t...

More U.S. nuclear power plant closures to come?

Aug 30, 2013 (UPI)

The closing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant could be indicative of more shutdowns to come, experts say. It is the fifth such announcement in the nation's nu...

Sun, sand, surf and radiation in shadow of Fukushima

Aug 30, 2013 (AFP)

With its towering waves, golden sand and stunning scenery, Toyoma beach in Iwaki is an almost perfect spot for surfing -- if only it wasn't just down the coast ...

U.S. nuclear reactors remain vulnerable to attack, theft, sabotage

Aug 28, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. commercial and research nuclear facilities are vulnerable to theft of bomb-grade nuclear materials, sabotage or major attack, a study found. The conclusion...