CIVIL NUCLEAR - INDO DAILY

Japan's only working nuclear reactors can stay online

Apr 06, 2016 (AFP)

Japan's only two working nuclear reactors can remain online after a court rejected an appeal by residents who said safety rules following the 2011 Fukushima dis...

EDF, CEA and AREVA establish the French Nuclear Platform

Apr 04, 2016 (SPX)

In order to develop aligned positions to meet the major challenges facing the French nuclear sector and to prepare the appropriate decisions, EDF, the CEA and A...

Rosatom to offer seawater desalination tech to Latin America

Apr 04, 2016 (Sputnik)

Russian nuclear experts are ready to offer Latin American countries their scientific research in the field of the sea water desalination, as well as technologie...

France's EDF stands by UK nuclear plant timetable

Mar 30, 2016 (AFP)

French power company EDF said on Wednesday it is not planning any delay in the construction of the controversial Hinkley Point nuclear plant which is to go onst...

UK-US nuke waste deal to help fight cancer

Mar 30, 2016 (AFP)

Britain will team up with the United States and European partners to exchange its nuclear waste for material to be used in the fight against cancer, Prime Minis...

Husband of Areva's ex-chief charged with insider trading: source

Mar 30, 2016 (AFP)

French authorities have charged the husband of French nuclear giant Areva's former boss Anne Lauvergeon with insider trading as part of a probe into its 2007 pu...

Rosatom Studies Ecological Method of Uranium Mining in Tanzania

Mar 29, 2016 (Sputnik)

Uranium One, operated by Russia's Rosatom nuclear energy corporation, is studying the possibility of using an ecological and economically effective method of ur...

'No terror link' in murder of guard at Belgian nuclear centre

Mar 26, 2016 (AFP)

The murder this week of a security guard at a Belgian nuclear research centre is a purely criminal affair unrelated to any terrorist threat, prosecutors said Sa...

Japan utility to scrap reactor over heavy safety costs

Mar 25, 2016 (AFP)

Japanese nuclear power operator said Friday it would decommission an ageing reactor because of the cost of upgrading, the sixth to be scrapped due to tougher ru...

Russia's Rosatom to train South African nuclear energy industry staff

Mar 23, 2016 (Sputnik)

Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom will help train personnel to develop South Africa's nuclear power industry on the basis of its educational programs, according t...

Researchers crack 50-year-old nuclear waste problem, make storage safer

Mar 23, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have adapted a technology developed for solar energy in order to selectively remove one of the tr...

China's advanced meltdown-free nuclear plant gets core component

Mar 23, 2016 (Sputnik)

Chinese enginners have installed the main component of a reactor in the Shandong Province nuclear power plant that is expected to become the world's first meltd...

Vessel carrying plutonium departs Japan port for US

Mar 22, 2016 (AFP)

A nuclear transport vessel carrying a huge cache of plutonium -- enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs -- to be returned to the US left a Japanese port on Tuesday ...

France's EDF to decide on UK nuclear plant by May: Macron

Mar 22, 2016 (AFP)

French power company EDF will take a final investment decision on the controversial Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Britain by early May, Economy Minister ...

Vessel to carry plutonium to US arrives at Japanese port: media

Mar 21, 2016 (AFP)

An armed nuclear transport vessel preparing to ship a huge cache of plutonium -- enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs -- to the US arrived at a Japanese port on M...

Japan to send plutonium cache to US this weekend

Mar 18, 2016 (AFP)

Japan will return a huge cache of plutonium -- enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs -- to the United States starting this weekend as part of a bilateral storage d...

France says will recapitalise energy giant EDF 'if there's a need'

Mar 17, 2016 (AFP)

The French government stands ready to inject fresh capital into energy giant EDF if necessary, Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. "If there is a...

Energy giants call German nuclear phase-out 'expropriation'

Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)

Three energy giants Tuesday told Germany's top court that they should be compensated for the nuclear phase-out Chancellor Angela Merkel's government decided aft...

Czech power group CEZ profit down on drop in prices, nuclear output

Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)

Czech state-run power group CEZ said Tuesday that net profit for 2015 fell by eight percent from 2014 on a drop in energy prices and lower production at its nuc...

Japan utility appeals court order to shut reactors

Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)

A Japanese utility on Monday appealed a court decision which ordered the shutdown of two nuclear reactors even though they had been declared safe under tougher ...