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Nuclear foes renew push to shut plant near Manhattan
May 24, 2016 (AFP)
Environmentalists urged US nuclear regulators Tuesday to shut down a nuclear plant near New York after inspections showed an unusually high number of degraded b...
Russia's Maiden Nuclear Icebreaker to Be Floated Out in Mid-2016
May 24, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's maiden Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker dubbed "Arktika" will be floated out at the Baltic Shipyard in the summer of 2016 ahead of its late 201...
China in 'preliminary' deal for Sudan's first atomic plant
May 24, 2016 (AFP)
A Chinese state-owned company has signed a "preliminary" deal with Sudan to build the east African country's first nuclear power plant, an official in Khartoum ...
Pakistan Applies for Nuclear Suppliers Group Membership
May 24, 2016 (Sputnik)
Pakistan has applied to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), claiming it has the ability to adhere to the nuclear proliferation-reducing body's standards, th...
Obama says no apology for A-bomb on Hiroshima visit
May 23, 2016 (AFP)
Barack Obama will not apologise for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima when he this week becomes the first sitting US president to visit the city, he told Japanese...
US eyes European reactors market
May 23, 2016 (XNA)
Beijing (XNA) May 23, 2016 America's competition with Russia over the supply of energy to Europe isn't limited to US plans to move in on Gazprom's turf by suppl...
Rosatom Ready to Start on Iran's New Nuclear Reactors
May 20, 2016 (Sputnik)
Engineers from Rosatom and their Iranian colleagues are planning to start the construction of a further two nuclear reactors at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant ...
Pakistan seeks nuclear group membership to curb proliferation
May 20, 2016 (AFP)
Pakistan has applied for membership of a nuclear suppliers group saying its inclusion would help reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the foreign minist...
Delay to NuGen nuclear power plant in England
May 18, 2016 (AFP)
The NuGen nuclear power project in England is due to start producing energy in 2025, a year later than expected, consultation documents published on Wednesday s...
Towards decommissioning Fukushima: 'Seeing' boron distribution in molten debris
May 18, 2016 (SPX)
Decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant just got one step closer. Japanese researchers have mapped the distribution of boron compounds in a model co...
Hollande renews support for EDF nuclear project in Britain
May 17, 2016 (AFP)
President Francois Hollande renewed his support on Tuesday for the controversial nuclear project planned by France's energy giant EDF at Hinkley Point in Britai...
AREVA awarded decontamination contract for Grafenrheinfeld Power Plant
May 16, 2016 (SPX)
AREVA NP has been selected by the utility E.ON Kernkraft to decontaminate the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, a pressurized water reactor design, located i...
France's 'Atomic Anne' charged over nuclear deal
May 13, 2016 (AFP)
French nuclear giant Areva's former boss Anne Lauvergeon was charged Friday as part of a probe linked to its disastrous 2007 purchase of a Canadian uranium mini...
Toshiba posts $4.4 bn full-year loss on nuclear writedown
May 12, 2016 (AFP)
Toshiba said Thursday that it suffered a $4.4 billion full-year net loss as the troubled conglomerate booked a massive write-down of its US nuclear unit, but sa...
India's Mainland to Host Next Hub of Nuclear Plants
Apr 29, 2016 (Sputnik)
India has announced plans to set up half a dozen nuclear power plants on the mainland. Officials indicated their preference for Russian nuclear power plants as ...
Ancient glass-glued walls studied for nuke waste solutions
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
The modern challenge of nuclear waste storage and disposal has researchers at Washington State University looking back at ancient materials from around the worl...
German power giants to pay into public fund to finance nuclear phase-out
Apr 27, 2016 (AFP)
Germany's nuclear power plant operators are to pay more than 20 billion euros ($23 billion) into a special public fund to cover the cost of dismantling their at...
Africa turning to nuclear to meet growing energy needs
Apr 27, 2016 (XNA)
The UN nuclear agency said on Friday that African countries are expressing greater interest in tapping nuclear power for their energy needs. International Atomi...
Advances in extracting uranium from seawater announced in special issue
Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)
The oceans hold more than four billion tons of uranium - enough to meet global energy needs for the next 10,000 years if only we could capture the element from ...
BWXT tapped for nuclear reactor components, fuel
Apr 27, 2016 (UPI)
U.S. Navy contracts for nuclear reactor components and nuclear fuel have been given to subsidiaries of BWX Technologies Inc. BWXT said Wednesday that the award ...
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