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Japan should stop 'confusing messages' on Fukushima: IAEA
Aug 28, 2013 (AFP)
The world's nuclear watchdog has urged Japan to explain more clearly what is happening at Fukushima and avoid sending "confusing messages" about the disaster, t...
Troubled US nuclear plant to shut down over costs
Aug 27, 2013 (AFP)
A 40-year-old nuclear plant in Vermont will shut down next year due to the high costs of competing with cheap natural gas, the company said Tuesday. Entergy Cor...
Fukushima water handling 'like whack-a-mole': minister
Aug 26, 2013 (AFP)
TEPCO's handling of radioactive water at Fukushima has been like "whack-a-mole", a minister said Monday after visiting the battered plant, pledging Japan's gove...
Ukraine, Japan to monitor Chernobyl and Fukushima from space
Aug 26, 2013 (AFP)
Ukraine and Japan on Monday agreed to launch a joint satellite project to track the state of crippled Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plants, sites of the world...
Japan top diplomat visits Chernobyl nuclear plant
Aug 25, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's foreign minister travelled Sunday to Chernobyl in Ukraine, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, to compare notes on relief efforts following ...
TEPCO to drain two more tanks at Fukushima nuclear plant
Aug 24, 2013 (AFP)
Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said Saturday it would empty two more coolant tanks that hold radioactive water over fears of fresh leaks at ...
Japan's Abe to visit Middle East in nuclear push
Aug 23, 2013 (AFP)
The prime minister of energy-poor Japan heads to the oil-rich Middle East this weekend in his latest push to promote nuclear technology exports, a spokesman sai...
Japan nuclear watchdog inspects Fukushima water leak
Aug 23, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's nuclear watchdog on Friday dispatched an inspection team to the crippled Fukushima plant after workers found a huge toxic water leak and unexplained rad...
Viewing Fukushima in the cold light of Chernobyl
Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster spread significant radioactive contamination over more than 3500 square miles of the Japanese mainland in the spring of 2...
Radiation hotspots found at Fukushima tanks: TEPCO
Aug 22, 2013 (AFP)
The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday it had found new radiation hotspots near tanks storing radioactive water, but no new leaks. A...
Fukushima workers checking 300 tanks for more leaks
Aug 22, 2013 (AFP)
Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday scrambled to check hundreds of tanks storing highly radioactive water, after one sprang a leak t...
Another S. Korea nuclear reactor shuts down
Aug 21, 2013 (AFP)
A reactor at one of South Korea's largest nuclear plants shut down Wednesday, officials said, at a time of creeping public anxiety over safety in the country's ...
Japan upgrades Fukushima leak to highest level in two years
Aug 21, 2013 (AFP)
Japan declared a radioactive water leak at the crippled Fukushima plant a level-three "serious incident" Wednesday, its highest warning in two years, as operato...
Radioactive water leak from Fukushima considered 'level 1' incident
Aug 20, 2013 (UPI)
Highly radioactive water has leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is the worst since the March 2011 earthquake and tsun...
Jordan to build nuclear research reactor
Aug 20, 2013 (AFP)
Jordan's Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given the go-ahead for a first nuclear research reactor as the desert kingdom, which lacks any oil, seeks to meet its...
TEPCO reports worst radioactive leak from tank at Japan's Fukushima
Aug 20, 2013 (AFP)
Some 300 tonnes of radioactive water is believed to have leaked from a tank at Japan's crippled nuclear plant, the worst such leak since the crisis began, the o...
Latest incident at French nuclear plant renews calls for its closure
Aug 19, 2013 (UPI)
The release of a hydrochloric acid from France's trouble-plagued Cattenom nuclear plant has renewed calls for its closure from nearby Luxembourg and Germany. Th...
BWRPLUS Formed to Leverage Synergy between Westinghouse and Toshiba
Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)
Westinghouse Electric Company and Toshiba Corporation have announced the formation of BWRPLUS, a new joint marketing organization for operating nuclear power pl...
Japan to go nuclear-free during safety checks
Aug 14, 2013 (AFP)
Japan will go without nuclear power for a period starting September when its only two operating reactors are shut down for mandatory safety checks, a utility co...
SMRs Won't Revive Failed 'Nuclear Renaissance'
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
A shift to "small modular reactors" (SMRs) is unlikely to breathe new life into the increasingly moribund U.S. nuclear power industry, since SMRs will likely re...
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