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Utmost Safety Ensured at Bangladesh's Nuke Plant
Jul 16, 2018 (Sputnik)
The ASE Group of Companies, a unit of Russia's Rosatom State Nuclear Corporation that is managing the construction of Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant say...
Can ultrashort electron flashes help harvest nuclear energy?
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
This breakthrough could allow physicists to increase the energy yield of nuclear reactions using coherent control methods, which relies on the manipulation of q...
Ultrashort electron flashes offer new way to harvest nuclear energy
Jul 12, 2018 (UPI)
The new method relies on even more precise control of electrons by light. In the lab, researchers achieved coherent manipulation of free-electron wave function ...
EU court dismisses Austrian case against UK nuclear plant
Jul 12, 2018 (AFP)
Anti-nuclear Austria challenged the European Commission's green light for the Hinkley Point C project before the Luxembourg-based EU court in 2015. "The General...
USA: Framatome completes major refurbishment of 31 reactor coolant pump motors
Jul 11, 2018 (SPX)
The motors in reactor coolant pumps help move coolant around the primary circuit of a nuclear reactor core. This keeps the reactor from overheating while ensuri...
New microscopy works at extreme heat, sheds light on alloys for nuclear reactors
Jul 11, 2018 (SPX)
"Alloy 709 is exceptionally strong and resistant to damage when exposed to high temperatures for long periods of time," says Afsaneh Rabiei, corresponding autho...
French MPs warn of nuclear safety 'failings'
Jul 05, 2018 (AFP)
"When you look for failings you find them, and some are more concerning than others," said Barbara Pompili, a lawmaker from the governing Republic on the Move p...
UAE further delays launch of first nuclear reactor
Jul 04, 2018 (AFP)
Construction of the first of four reactors at the $20 billion (17 billion euro) Barakah plant has been completed ahead of "operation by the end of 2019 (or) ear...
The vanishing nuclear industry
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper, "U.S. nuclear power: The vanishing low-carbon wedge," just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), the team examined...
Japan aims for 24% renewable energy but keeps nuclear central
Jul 03, 2018 (AFP)
The plan aims to have 22-24 percent of Japan's energy needs met by renewable sources including wind and solar by 2030, a figure critics describe as unambitious ...
Electrospun sodium titanate speeds up the purification of nuclear waste water
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
With the help of this new method, waste water can be treated faster than before, and the environmentally positive aspect is that the process leaves less solid r...
Greenpeace activists 'crash' drone into French nuclear plant
Jul 03, 2018 (AFP)
A video released by the environmental group shows the drone zipping through restricted airspace above the Bugey plant about 25 kilometres (16 miles) outside Lyo...
Framatome welcomes Taishan 1 grid connection, the first EPR reactor in the world
Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)
"The successful grid connection of the Taishan 1 nuclear power plant is a historical moment for Framatome and for the whole nuclear industry. It is the result o...
First EPR nuclear reactor goes on stream in China
Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)
The European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) in Taishan, southern China, "became the first EPR reactor in the world to be successfully connected to the grid", they sa...
The power to transform the industry
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
By Gilles Perrier's own admission, operational excellence and digital transformation seem strange bedfellows, but it's the thinking that combined the two that l...
Chernobyl's stray dogs offered new life in US
Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)
The long, one-storey structure once served as a makeshift medical centre for workers from the plant to receive assistance after the 1986 disaster. Today it is a...
Creating a new composite fuel for new-generation fast reactors
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
To this end, they are studying composite ceramics-ceramics (Cer-Cer) and ceramics-metal (CerMet) materials on the basis of mineral-like compounds (in particular...
Nuclear power shutdowns won't spike power prices
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
Owners of both Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, and Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station, west of Pittsburgh, have cited financial troubles due to historicall...
Seawater yields first grams of yellowcake
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
"This is a significant milestone," said Gary Gill, a researcher at PNNL, a Department of Energy national laboratory, and the only one with a marine research fac...
Framatome and the EPR reactor: a robust history and the passion it takes to succeed
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
Framatome, the designer of this Generation III+ reactor, is proud, as I am proud, of this first start up, which underscores and rewards the years of engineering...
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