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Nagasaki marks 68th anniversary of US atomic bombing
Aug 09, 2013 (AFP)
Nagasaki on Friday marked the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing by the United States during World War II that turned the Japanese city into an inferno. Ten...
Smoke causes incident at closed French nuclear plant
Aug 09, 2013 (AFP)
An incident at a closed nuclear power plant in eastern France generated a lot of smoke Thursday, but won't have an impact on the environment, officials said. Th...
Japan to step in for Fukushima cleanup?
Aug 08, 2013 (UPI)
The Japanese government has signaled it plans to take a more direct role in the clean-up effort at the Fukushima nuclear power plant amid rising concerns radioa...
Japan says battle to stop nuclear plant leaks 'urgent'
Aug 07, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's prime minister Wednesday said Tokyo would get more involved in cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, as he described as "urgent" a battle to...
Areva says Niger uranium mine operational after attack
Aug 07, 2013 (AFP)
French nuclear power group Areva has resumed full production of uranium at the Somair site at Arlit in northern Niger which was attacked in May, the company sai...
Japan's TEPCO discloses extent of nuclear plant leak
Aug 04, 2013 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has given its first public estimate of the size of the leakage of radioactive tritium into the Pacific ...
Taiwan lawmakers scuffle over planned nuclear plant
Aug 02, 2013 (AFP)
Taiwanese lawmakers hurled water and wrestled each other to the floor of the island's parliament Friday in a brawl which broke out during a debate on the fate o...
TEPCO returns to profit on bailout, rate hikes
Jul 31, 2013 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday it swung to a net profit in the quarter to June after a government bailout and electrici...
Japan nuclear watchdog to beef up Fukushima monitoring
Jul 30, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's nuclear watchdog will beef up monitoring at the crippled Fukushima power plant, an agency official said Tuesday, after leaks of radioactive groundwater ...
Russia inks agreement for floating nuclear plants with China
Jul 29, 2013 (UPI)
A subsidiary of Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom said Tuesday it signed an agreement to build floating nuclear power plants with China. "The potenti...
Rejected environmental report could delay Turkey's first nuke plant
Jul 29, 2013 (UPI)
A rejected environmental impact analysis report could delay construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant, the company behind the project says. The Environ...
Nuke experts blast Fukushima operator over leaks
Jul 26, 2013 (AFP)
Foreign nuclear experts on Friday blasted the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, with one saying its lack of transparency over radioactive wa...
Westinghouse and Vitkovice Take First Concrete Steps Towards Building Czech AP1000 Reactors
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it has contracted with Vitkovice Power Engineering a.s., a member of the Czech Vitkovice Machinery Group, to co...
New nuclear fuel-rod cladding could lead to safer power plants
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
In the aftermath of Japan's earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was initially driven into shutdown by the magnitude 9.0 qu...
Fukushima nuclear clean-up costs rise as steam seen again
Jul 24, 2013 (AFP)
The clean-up after the Fukushima nuclear disaster could cost five times more than estimated, figures have revealed, as Tokyo Electric Power said on Wednesday th...
Paraguay upset over Argentine nuclear plant near border
Jul 23, 2013 (UPI)
Argentina has upset landlocked Paraguay with its plan to build a nuclear power reactor near their common border without formal consultations. Analysts say the A...
Australia minister calls for more uranium development
Jul 22, 2013 (UPI)
Australia's resources and energy minister has called on the country's uranium sector to increase development to meet growing global demand. "We need industry to...
Radioactive water leaked into sea at Fukushima: TEPCO
Jul 22, 2013 (AFP)
The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Monday admitted for the first time that radioactive groundwater has leaked out to sea, fuelling fears of...
Chernobyl at Sea? Russia Building Floating Nuclear Power Plants
Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)
So much for the lessons of Fukushima. Never mind oil spills, the Russian Federation is preparing an energy initiative that, if it has problems, will inject nucl...
No radiation spike at Fukushima despite steam: TEPCO
Jul 18, 2013 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant insisted Thursday there was no sign of spiking radiation at the crippled facility, after steam was found in a re...
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