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Japan gets first MOX nuclear shipment since Fukushima
Jun 27, 2013 (AFP)
A vessel under armed guard and loaded with reprocessed nuclear fuel from France arrived at a Japanese port on Thursday, the first such shipment since the Fukush...
Russia says Bushehr nuclear expansion contract to be signed by year's end
Jun 23, 2013 (UPI)
Russian plans to sign a contract with Iran to help expand the Bushehr nuclear power facility by the end of the year, Russia's nuclear regulator said Monday. Ser...
US state in new alert over nuclear waste leak
Jun 21, 2013 (AFP)
Heightened radioactivity levels were found outside a nuclear waste tank in the US state of Washington, officials said Friday, in a new alert about a site used t...
New radioactive water leak at Fukushima: TEPCO
Jun 21, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear complex has suffered another radioactive water leak, its operator said Friday, the latest in a series of incidents at...
Toxic radiation in groundwater at Fukushima: operator
Jun 19, 2013 (AFP)
Cancer-causing radioactive substances have been found in groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, its Japanese operator said Wednesday, as it pledge...
Romania to sell stake in nuclear plant operator
Jun 19, 2013 (AFP)
Romania will sell a 10 percent stake in Nuclearelectrica, the company that operates a nuclear power plant in Cernavoda, the government said Wednesday. The sale ...
Poland may delay launch of nuclear plants: PM
Jun 18, 2013 (AFP)
Poland could delay building its first nuclear power plants as natural gas, including shale gas, becomes less costly, the prime minister of the central European ...
Japan PM to tout nuclear exports at central Europe summit
Jun 16, 2013 (AFP)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets the leaders of four ex-communist European countries on Sunday at a regional summit in Warsaw, where he is expected to p...
Japan PM promotes nuclear exports at central Europe summit
Jun 16, 2013 (AFP)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a push on Sunday for his country's nuclear technologies at a summit in Warsaw with leaders of four ex-Communist European...
Fukushima official Twitter tirade under fire in Japan
Jun 13, 2013 (AFP)
A public official charged with helping victims of Japan's nuclear disaster who launched a foul-mouthed Twitter tirade faced calls to quit Thursday. In a posting...
EU wants six-yearly post-Fukushima nuclear stress tests
Jun 13, 2013 (AFP)
The European Commission called for stress tests every six years on the dozens of nuclear reactors operating in the European Union as it issued new safety rules ...
Lockheed Martin and China Sign Nuclear Plant Safety Systems Work Deal
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin and State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Company (SNPAS) have signed an agreement to prototype, manufacture and qualify nuclear pow...
Japan's first lady says she is 'anti-nuclear'
Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)
The wife of Japan's pro-business Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not like nuclear power and would rather her husband's government did not try to export it, she s...
Japan PM to step up nuclear export drive: report
Jun 08, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's prime minister is expected to sign a nuclear cooperation deal with the Czech Republic this month, a report said Saturday, as Tokyo looks to build up its...
Upgrades ordered for U.S. reactors
Jun 07, 2013 (UPI)
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered nearly a third of the nation's nuclear reactors to upgrade their venting systems. The order, which applies to 31 b...
Glitch-hit US nuclear plant shut down for good
Jun 07, 2013 (AFP)
A California nuclear power plant shut down last year after a radiation leak will be permanently closed, its owners said Friday. Southern California Edison (SCE)...
S. Korea's top nuclear plant operator sacked
Jun 06, 2013 (AFP)
South Korea on Thursday fired the head of the state-run company that oversees the country's 23 nuclear reactors over a forged documentation scandal that has shu...
Japan's Fukushima operator admits culpability in suicide
Jun 06, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's Tokyo Electric Power has conceded the Fukushima disaster played a part in a farmer's suicide, lawyers said Thursday, its first admission of culpability ...
Australia seeks to boost uranium sector
Jun 06, 2013 (UPI)
Australia's Resource Minister has called for ramping up the country's uranium sector. While the world's nuclear power generators will require more than 66,000 t...
Russia woos new Bulgaria cabinet to resume nuclear project
Jun 04, 2013 (AFP)
Russia tried Wednesday to woo Bulgaria's new government to re-start a project for a new nuclear power plant on the Danube, offering to drop a one-billion-euro (...
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