CIVIL NUCLEAR - INDO DAILY

Westinghouse announces successful setting of AP1000 containment vessel top head at China's Haiyang Unit 1

Apr 03, 2013 (SPX)

Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium team member CB and I, China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation Ltd. and Shandong Nuclear Power Company L...

Australia gives environmental approval to new uranium mine

Apr 02, 2013 (AFP)

Australia on Tuesday gave environmental approval for a new uranium mine in its resource-rich west, with 36 conditions to guard against negative impacts from rad...

Japan set to overhaul power industry

Apr 02, 2013 (AFP)

Japan's government on Tuesday approved a long-sought plan to open up its power industry after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster renewed calls for more competi...

TEPCO warns more cuts needed to stay afloat

Apr 01, 2013 (AFP)

Tokyo Electric Power said Monday it must cut $1.1 billion more in annual costs to stay afloat as the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant faces huge...

Westinghouse Springfields Completes First French Fuel Delivery

Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)

Westinghouse Electric Company's nuclear fuel manufacturing plant at Springfields, near Preston, has dispatched its first consignment of Light Water Reactor (LWR...

1 dead, 3 injured in Arkansas nuclear site accident

Mar 31, 2013 (AFP)

A worker was killed and three others were injured Sunday during an industrial accident at a US nuclear power plant that did not release any nuclear material, of...

Swiss supreme court stays closure of nuclear plant

Mar 28, 2013 (AFP)

The Swiss supreme court on Thursday ruled that the country's Muehleberg nuclear power plant can continue operating beyond the end of June, overturning a cut-off...

Google reveals views of Japan's nuclear ghost town

Mar 28, 2013 (AFP)

Visitors to Google Maps can now roam virtually through the overgrown streets of an abandoned town where time has stood still since a tsunami crippled Japan's Fu...

AREVA and EDF bring together Saudi industry to support energy projects

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

In Riyadh, French companies AREVA and EDF invited a number of Saudi business and industry representatives to participate in an energy program suggested by King ...

British bad weather kills one, closes nuclear site

Mar 22, 2013 (AFP)

Britain was blitzed by unseasonal heavy snowfall and rain on Friday that left one person dead in a landslide and forced the closure of a nuclear site. Thousands...

Uranium mine workers in Niger stage 'indefinite' strike

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

More than 600 people working at a Chinese-operated uranium mine in northern Niger on Thursday began an "indefinite" strike action to protest their working condi...

Rat linked to outage at Fukushima atomic plant

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

A rat may have caused a power cut that knocked out cooling systems at Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the operator said Thursday, an episode th...

Cooling systems restored at Fukushima reactors: TEPCO

Mar 20, 2013 (AFP)

Technicians have restored power to all cooling systems at the reactors of Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, the operating company said Wednesday afte...

Britain gives green light to new nuclear plant

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Britain gave the go-ahead on Tuesday for the first of a planned new generation of nuclear power plants. Energy minister Ed Davey told parliament he was granting...

S. Korea invites inspection to allay nuclear safety fears

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

South Korea announced Tuesday plans to open all its 23 nuclear reactors to international inspection in an apparent bid to allay growing public concern over nucl...

India a market for nuclear power suppliers

Mar 19, 2013 (UPI)

Despite concerns about its nuclear liability law, India continues to be "a land of opportunity for global nuclear power suppliers," said an adviser to the Unite...

Temelin, a Czech village overshadowed by disputed nuclear plant

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Flanked by Germany, which is phasing out nuclear power, and Austria, which has already done so, the Czech Republic is pinning its future on atomic energy. The e...

Crippled Japan nuclear plant hit by power cut: report

Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)

A power failure at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant forced operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to suspend systems to cool spent fuel pools at thre...

Nuclear group Areva insists public trusts sector

Mar 12, 2013 (AFP)

Two years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis, the head of French group Areva, a leading company in the sector, insisted that public confidence in atomic ene...

Greenpeace protests at Argentina nuclear plant

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

Some 40 Greenpeace activists were arrested inside an atomic power plant in Argentina on Monday at a protest on the second anniversary of the earthquake and nucl...