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Brazil shelves plans to build new nuclear plants
May 09, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil said Wednesday it has shelved plans to build new nuclear power stations in the coming years in the wake of last year's Fukushima disaster in Japan. The p...
Lithuania seals plan for new nuclear power plant
May 09, 2012 (AFP)
Lithuania's government approved draft legislation Wednesday that would allow a new nuclear power plant for the ex-Soviet Baltic republic heavily dependent on Ru...
Italy relives militancy fears with nuclear boss shooting
May 07, 2012 (AFP)
A gunman shot and wounded the head of an Italian nuclear energy company on Monday in an incident reminiscent of militant attacks in the 1970s, with police sayin...
Bulgaria announces deal on debt for abandoned nuclear plant
May 07, 2012 (AFP)
Bulgaria has reached a debt rescheduling deal for 250 million euros ($326 million) owed to creditors headed by French bank BNP Paribas for an abandoned nuclear ...
Japan switches off final nuclear reactor
May 05, 2012 (AFP)
Japan switched off its last working nuclear reactor Saturday, leaving the country without atomic-generated electricity just over a year after the world's worst ...
Wash. nuclear cleanup plan criticized
May 02, 2012 (UPI)
Washington State's plan for dealing with dangerous waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is incomplete and fails to address safety issues, critics say. A dra...
Greenpeace activist flies into French nuclear plant: police
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
French police arrested three Greenpeace members Wednesday after an activist flew into the grounds of a nuclear power plant using a paraglider in a stunt aimed a...
Jordan weighs two offers to build nuclear plant
Apr 29, 2012 (AFP)
Energy-poor Jordan said on Sunday a Russian firm and a French-Japanese consortium are to compete to build the kingdom's first nuclear plant. "Following a thorou...
TEPCO 'offers controlling stake' to Japan govt
Apr 27, 2012 (AFP)
The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Friday offered the Japanese government a controlling stake in return for a huge cash injection that woul...
Japan's offline reactors send utilities into red
Apr 27, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese electricity companies said Friday they had booked multi-billion dollar losses in the last year after the Fukushima disaster shuttered nuclear power pla...
Westinghouse And Ameren Missouri Partner To Develop And License SMR Technology
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
Westinghouse Electric Company and Ameren Missouri have entered into an agreement to respond collaboratively to the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Fund...
Brussels dissatisfied with Europe nuclear stress test report
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
The EU's energy chief Thursday deemed an almost year-long study on nuclear plant safety in Europe as short on detail and numbers and demanded further work befor...
Nuclear company Areva posts improved quarterly sales
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
French nuclear energy giant Areva on Thursday said sales rose by 2.4 percent in the first quarter this year to 2.026 billion euros ($2.64 billion) bolstered by ...
AREVA and EDF organize a joint Supplier Day to support nuclear new-build projects
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
Following the success of AREVA's previous Polish Supplier Days held in Warsaw last October and in Wroclaw and Opole in March, AREVA and EDF have organized, with...
Japan power companies warn of summer shortages
Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese power companies are warning a hot summer could bring blackouts for some areas unless nuclear plants are re-started. Kansai Electric Power, which suppli...
OECD chief: Japan needs nuclear power
Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)
The head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development urged Japan on Tuesday to resume nuclear electricity generation despite public opposition....
Candu applies to build Turkey nuclear plant
Apr 20, 2012 (AFP)
Turkey's energy minister said Friday that Canadian company Candu had applied to build the country's second nuclear power plant in cooperation with Turkish compa...
Bulgaria no-confidence vote over axed nuclear deal aborts
Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)
Bulgaria's government was spared a motion of no-confidence over its decision to drop a deal for a new nuclear plant on the Danube after the parliament speaker r...
Armenia extends life of Soviet-era nuclear reactor
Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)
Armenia on Thursday said it had decided to extend the life of its Soviet-era nuclear reactor by four years until 2020 despite concerns raised by environmentalis...
RWE joins rival E.ON in suing Germany over nuclear exit
Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)
German power supplier RWE said Thursday it is joining its bigger rival E.ON in filing a complaint with Germany's highest court over compensation for the governm...
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