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TEPCO receives $12.8 billion public bailout
Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant was effectively nationalised Tuesday as it received one trillion yen ($12.8 billion) of taxpayer ...
Automatic shutdown at S. Korea nuclear reactor
Jul 30, 2012 (AFP)
A South Korean nuclear reactor went into automatic shutdown on Monday apparently after a malfunction, plant operators said, while ruling out a possible radiatio...
EnBW says won't sue Germany over nuclear exit
Jul 30, 2012 (AFP)
German power group EnBW said Monday it will not join other utility companies in filing a complaint with Germany's top court over compensation for Berlin's decis...
Anti-nuclear protesters surround Japan parliament
Jul 29, 2012 (AFP)
Thousands of demonstrators holding aloft candles and lights formed a human chain around Japan's parliament on Sunday in a new protest against nuclear power afte...
Saudis, Emirates push nuclear power plans
Jul 26, 2012 (UPI)
Saudi Arabia is pressing ahead with its ambitious plans to develop nuclear power to meet rising electricity demand and save oil for export. But the outlook for ...
Opportunity after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
Japan's energy policy is now at its most critical juncture since the inception of nuclear power in 1966. Nearly 16 months after the disaster at the Fukushima Da...
AREVA and Northrop Grumman Announce Plans to Provide Cybersecurity Support to U.S. Nuclear Facilities
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
AREVA Inc. and Northrop Grumman have joined forces to provide cybersecurity protection support for the nuclear industry. The alliance is in response to the Nucl...
Convoy taking Italian spent nuclear fuel to France: reports
Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)
A rail convoy carrying highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from Italy to France set off from the northern Italian town of Saluggia overnight, Italian media re...
40 India nuclear plant workers contaminated: firm
Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)
More than 40 workers at a nuclear power station in northern India have been exposed to tritium radiation in two separate leaks in the past five weeks, company m...
Stanford researchers calculate global health impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
Radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may eventually cause anywhere from 15 to 1,300 deaths and from 24 to 2,500 cases of cancer, mostly in ...
Japan, TEPCO accused of ignoring nuclear accident risks
Jul 23, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese officials and Tokyo Electric Power ignored the risk of an atomic accident because they believed in the "myth of nuclear safety", a government-backed re...
Fukushima a 'Wake-Up Call' Seen for Sleeping US Nuclear Regulators
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
The same underlying "man-made" problems that contribute significantly to the Fukushima reactor disaster in Japan are in place in the United States and require p...
Nuclear fears galvanise usually sedate Japan
Jul 19, 2012 (AFP)
Japan's usually sedate society is angry and getting organised against nuclear power, with the kind of snowballing protest movement not seen for decades. Weekly ...
Japan's TEPCO gets go-ahead for power bill boost
Jul 19, 2012 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday was told it could hike household bills by around 8.5 percent, as the president insisted his...
Japan to probe 'active faults' under nuclear plants
Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)
Japan's nuclear safety watchdog on Wednesday ordered a probe into claims the country's only working nuclear power station sits on an active tectonic fault. The ...
UAE to begin constructing two nuclear reactors
Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)
The UAE will begin building two of four nuclear power plants in partnership with a South Korean consortium, the first of which will begin production in 2017, th...
Massive anti-nuclear rally staged in Tokyo
Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of people rallied in Tokyo on Monday demanding an end to nuclear power, the latest in a series of anti-atomic gatherings following the tsunami...
90 percent of Megatons to Megawatts complete
Jul 16, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Russia and the United States have completed 90% of the volume covered in an agreement on Russia processing highly enriched uranium to supply nuclear power plant...
Finnish firm TVO says EPR nuclear reactor not ready in 2014
Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)
Finnish electricity company TVO revealed on Monday a new delay in the operation of an EPR nuclear reactor being built by Areva and Siemens which is already five...
Lithuania to hold referendum on new nuclear plant
Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)
Lithuania's parliament on Monday called a referendum on plans for an atomic power plant to replace a Soviet-era facility closed under the terms of Lithuania's e...
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