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India, France to build 6 nuclear reactors at Jaitapur Plant
Jan 26, 2016 (Sputnik)
India's Foreign Secretary stated that India and France intend to construct six nuclear reactors within the framework of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project. Indi...
Denmark, Greenland sign agreement on uranium
Jan 22, 2016 (XNA)
Denmark and Greenland have reached an agreement on the rules for future commercial exports of uranium from the island, local media reported Tuesday. Denmark's M...
Japan's 'rigid' atomic inspections need freedom: IAEA
Jan 22, 2016 (AFP)
Japan should free up its "complex and rigid" reactor inspection regime, a global nuclear watchdog said Thursday, as the country restarts more atomic plants five...
92,000 petition Canada not to store nuclear waste near Great Lakes
Jan 21, 2016 (AFP)
Ninety-two-thousand people have pressed Ottawa to reject a proposal to store nuclear waste in an underground vault near the Great Lakes, fearing a spill would c...
Moscow, Amman to Discuss Building Jordan's First Power Plant Next Month
Jan 21, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russian and Jordanian nuclear officials will convene in Amman in February to discuss the construction of Jordan's first nuclear power plant, the head of the Jor...
Iran Set to Start Construction of Two Nuclear Power Plants
Jan 21, 2016 (Sputnik)
With sanctions officially lifted, the Iranian government has announced plans to build a pair of nuclear power plants. "Construction of two 1000-MW power plants ...
Netherlands says 'serious' concerns about Belgium nuclear plants
Jan 20, 2016 (AFP)
The Netherlands has "serious" concerns about neighbouring Belgium's ageing nuclear reactors, the Dutch environment minister said Wednesday during a joint inspec...
Belgium's ageing nuclear plants worry neighbours
Jan 18, 2016 (AFP)
As the two cooling towers at Belgium's Doel nuclear power belch thick white steam into a wintry sky, people over the border in the Dutch town of Nieuw-Namen are...
Belgium fails to reassure Luxembourg over nuclear safety: official
Jan 18, 2016 (AFP)
Luxembourg said Monday the Belgian authorities had failed to ease its concerns over the safety of at least one of Belgium's ageing nuclear reactors. "We are not...
IAEA Starts Assessment of Japan's Efforts on Safe Use of Nuclear Plants
Jan 12, 2016 (Sputnik)
A group of experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began on Monday its planned assessment of the Japanese government's efforts to ensure safe u...
Graphene filter can clean nuclear wastewater
Jan 05, 2016 (UPI)
Just a few days into 2016, and the first graphene story of the year is already here. New research further suggests there's nothing graphene can't do. The wonder...
Japan to send plutonium cache to US under nuclear deal: report
Jan 05, 2016 (AFP)
Japan will send a huge cache of plutonium -- enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs -- to the United States as part of a deal to return the material that was used f...
Belgian nuclear reactor restarts after shutdown
Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)
Belgium on Monday restarted a reactor that was shut down at the weekend just three days after returning to service amid concern in neighbouring countries over i...
Belgian nuclear reactor shut down three days after restarting
Jan 03, 2016 (AFP)
An ageing Belgian nuclear reactor shut down on Saturday afternoon, just three days after it was restarted, but there was no safety risk, the power utility that ...
Construction begins on pilot nuclear power project
Jan 01, 2016 (XNA)
Construction on the first unit of a pilot nuclear power project using a Chinese reactor design began in south China on Thursday. Workers on Thursday morning bro...
Rosatom Tops $110 Billion in 10-Year Volume of Exports
Jan 01, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's Rosatom nuclear agency's 10-year volume of exports have topped $110 billion in 2015, a company source said Monday. "The 10-year volume of export orders...
Last Magnox nuclear power plant throws off switch in Wales
Jan 01, 2016 (XNA)
The world's last surviving Magnox nuclear power plant closed Wednesday when the off switch was finally thrown. Wylfa power plant on the island of Anglesey in Wa...
Russia, Egypt to sign $26-Bln contract for Egypt's first NPP
Jan 01, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia and Egypt plan on signing a contract worth $26 billion in the first quarter of 2016 on the construction of Egypt's first nuclear power plant, a source fr...
China has world's largest nuclear power capacity under construction
Dec 30, 2015 (XNA)
China boasts the world's largest nuclear power capacity under construction as it strives to reduce pollution from coal-burning generators, an official said Tues...
Bangladesh inks 12.65 bln USD nuclear power plant construction deal with Russian company
Dec 30, 2015 (XNA)
The Bangladeshi government has signed the country's biggest ever contract worth 12.65 billion U.S. dollars with a Russian state-run company to build a nuclear p...
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