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Japan PM meets anti-nuclear demonstrators
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda met anti-nuclear demonstrators face-to-face on Wednesday for the first time since weekly rallies outside his office began...
Uranium from seawater said attainable goal
Aug 21, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. scientists say they're making progress towards a 40-year-old dream of extracting uranium for nuclear power from seawater. "Estimates indicate that the ocea...
France sends student to prison for nuclear line protest
Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)
A student demonstrator against a new high-voltage electricity line in northern France was handed a three-month jail term Wednesday, in what campaigners decried ...
IAEA: Fukushima slowed nuke growth
Aug 20, 2012 (UPI)
The Fukushima Daiichi disaster slowed but didn't reverse the expansion of nuclear power in 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in Vienna. The U.N....
Tokyo's anti-nuclear protesters remember WWII
Aug 17, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese anti-nuclear demonstrators on Friday recounted the horror of World War II, days after the region marked Tokyo's surrender nearly seven decades earlier....
Belgian nuclear safety chief spells out fissure fears
Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)
Belgium stepped up controls on nuclear safety that found cracks in the casing of an ageing reactor and led to two sites now closing after learning of signs of f...
UAE announces $3bn in nuclear fuel deals
Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)
The United Arab Emirates said Wednesday it had selected six companies to supply fuel to its four planned nuclear reactors in deals worth an estimated $3 billion...
NRC Freezes All Nuclear Reactor Construction and Operating Licenses in US
Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has acted to put a hold on at least 19 final reactor licensing decisions - nine construction and operating licenses...
Japan's Toshiba eyes nuclear power alliance
Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)
Toshiba plans to sell some of its controlling stake in nuclear-power unit Westinghouse Electric as it looks to form an alliance to tap demand in emerging market...
Belgium nuke re-start seen as unlikely
Aug 13, 2012 (UPI)
The chief of Belgium's nuclear power regulatory agency says he's "skeptical" the Doel-3 reactor near Antwerp can ever be re-started. Willy De Roovere, director ...
Japan's Onagawa nuclear plant 'remarkably undamaged': IAEA
Aug 10, 2012 (AFP)
The UN atomic agency said Friday that Japan's Onagawa nuclear power plant, despite having been closest to the epicentre of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami...
Belgian nuclear chief 'sceptical' reactor can be restarted
Aug 10, 2012 (AFP)
The head of Belgium's federal agency for nuclear safety AFCN said on Friday he was "sceptical" that an ageing reactor closed over fears of cracks could be resta...
Belgium's nuclear watchdog may close two reactors
Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)
Belgium's nuclear watchdog is mulling the permanent closure of two of the country's seven reactors producing electricity due to safety concerns, according to an...
Japan A-bomb survivors warn against nuclear power
Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)
The scars that still mark Sunao Tsuboi's face from the wartime bombing of Hiroshima are a grim reminder of the power of the atom as a wave of nuclear wariness s...
carboNZero Holdings and Energy and Technical Services Limited (ETSL) form Strategic Partnership
Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)
carboNZero Holdings and Energy and Technical Services Limited (ETSL) has announced that they have formed a strategic partnership that will deliver more streamli...
AREVA receives NRC approval of new Simulation Validation Test for Digital I and C System
Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)
After becoming the first and only supplier to receive NRC approval for full plant application of a safety-related digital I and C system (TELEPERM XS), AREVA an...
South Korea restarts oldest reactor
Aug 06, 2012 (UPI)
South Korea's oldest nuclear reactor -- shut down since March -- will resume operations, the government said. The announcement Monday coincides with a power sho...
AREVA joins the World Association of Nuclear Operators
Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)
AREVA is joining the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), as a Category 1 Member. The group qualifies for WANO membership due to its operation of La H...
Australia inks UAE nuclear deal
Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)
Australia has signed a nuclear supply treaty with the United Arab Emirates in a deal Foreign Minister Bob Carr said would see the Gulf state become Canberra's f...
TEPCO chief vows cost cuts amid $3.68 bn loss
Aug 01, 2012 (AFP)
Tokyo Electric Power's chief on Wednesday vowed "nothing was sacred" in his bid to chop costs as the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant ...
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