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Toshiba takes $2.3 bln hit from Westinghouse write-down
Apr 26, 2016 (AFP)
Troubled conglomerate Toshiba announced Tuesday it had booked a $2.3 billion write-down of its US nuclear unit Westinghouse but said the sale of its medical dev...
Thirty years on, Ukraine mourns victims of Chernobyl
Apr 26, 2016 (AFP)
Ukrainians held candlelit vigils Tuesday to mark 30 years since the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left several ...
China eyes offshore expansion via floating nuclear plant
Apr 26, 2016 (Sputnik)
China is pushing ahead with its construction of a first-ever floating nuclear power platform, which is expected to add to Beijing's ever-increasing clout in the...
EDF shares dive 11 percent on news of capital injection
Apr 25, 2016 (AFP)
Shares in French energy giant EDF plunged 11 percent Monday after the state said it would lead a four-billion-euro capital increase as the company tries to tack...
Belgium rejects German call to shut down 2 nuclear reactors
Apr 25, 2016 (Sputnik)
Belgium's Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) said in a statement on Wednesday that it would not shut two nuclear reactors despite German calls to do so. ...
France's EDF to decide on UK nuclear project in September
Apr 24, 2016 (AFP)
France's energy giant EDF will give the final green light to the controversial construction of two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Britain in September, Ec...
France to lead 4 bn euro cash injection for EDF
Apr 22, 2016 (AFP)
France said late Friday it would lead a four-billion-euro capital increase for power company EDF, months after agreeing a similar cash injection for the other p...
Safety checks at German nuclear power plants were faked
Apr 21, 2016 (Sputnik)
Administrators of two nuclear power plants in Germany have just admitted that employees faked safety checks, but they marked them as completed anyway. Employees...
Japanese nuclear regulator deems 40-Year-Old Takahama reactors safe
Apr 21, 2016 (Sputnik)
Japan's atomic regulator declared Wednesday that two reactors at the Takahama nuclear power plant were safe, making a step toward restarting them for the first ...
Britain 'fully confident' on Hinkley nuclear plant
Apr 20, 2016 (AFP)
Britain's energy minister has expressed "full confidence" that the Hinkley Point nuclear plant will go ahead despite concerns, insisting the country's energy ne...
Belgium rejects German call for nuclear plants closure
Apr 20, 2016 (AFP)
Belgium on Wednesday rejected a request by neighbouring Germany to shutter two ageing nuclear plants near their shared border, arguing the facilities met with t...
Finnish nuclear power plant reactor shut down after radioactive leak
Apr 18, 2016 (Sputnik)
According to nuclear power company Teollisuuden Voima, one of the reactors at the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in western Finland was shut down on Friday due t...
Japan to dump tritium waste from Fukushima NPP
Apr 18, 2016 (Sputnik)
Tokyo is considering dumping tritium into the ocean as it struggles with the consequences of the Fukushima disaster, caused by a massive tsunami in northeastern...
Nuclear plans in turmoil as French Minister admits serious doubts
Apr 18, 2016 (Sputnik)
The French energy minister, Segolene Royal, has said that she is seriously considering postponing the construction of a new nuclear power station in the UK, ami...
France finalising UK nuclear plant deal: minister
Apr 17, 2016 (AFP)
French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron repeated his government's commitment Sunday to plans by state-owned company EDF to build a controversial next-generation...
US charges China state power company over nuclear conspiracy
Apr 14, 2016 (AFP)
A Chinese state-owned nuclear power company and a US citizen have been indicted for allegedly attempting to conspire against the United States, officials said T...
Four of Japan's NPP operators seeking to reach deal on safety cooperation
Apr 12, 2016 (Sputnik)
Four Japanese nuclear power plant (NPP) operators are planning to join their efforts to improve safety of their NPPs and prevent accidents similar to the one th...
Luxembourg offers cash to help close ageing French nuke plant
Apr 11, 2016 (AFP)
Luxembourg offered on Monday to chip in financing to close an ageing French nuclear power plant near its border, saying the tiny nation could be obliterated if ...
French nuclear plant could become electric car factory
Apr 10, 2016 (AFP)
France's oldest nuclear power plant, scheduled for closure in 2018, could be turned into a factory producing electric cars or batteries, the French environment ...
South Africa's nuclear procurement process stalled indefinitely
Apr 07, 2016 (XNA)
The next phase of South Africa's nuclear procurement process has been stalled indefinitely, Minister of Energy Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Wednesday. Joemat-...
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