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Moscow, Dhaka Sign Contract on Construction of First Bangladeshi NPP
Dec 30, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russia and Bangladesh have signed a contract on the joint construction of the first Bangladeshi nuclear power plant, a spokesperson for the Russian state nuclea...
Belgium restarts ageing nuclear reactor
Dec 26, 2015 (AFP)
Belgian power utility Electrabel said Saturday it had restarted a nuclear reactor at its ageing Tihange plant, just days after being forced to shut it down foll...
AREVA TN Signs Agreement for a Partnership with the Chinese firm Apollo
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
AREVA TN signed an agreement at the end of November fora strategic partnership with the Chinese company Shangai Apollo Machinery Co. Ltd in China, a qualified C...
Japan court paves way for more nuclear restarts
Dec 24, 2015 (AFP)
A Japanese court on Thursday lifted an injunction blocking two regional nuclear reactors from restarting, effectively paving the way for them to come back onlin...
Tokyo Approves Large-Scale Takahama Nuclear Plant Evacuation Plan
Dec 22, 2015 (Sputnik)
The Japanese government on Friday approved an evacuation plan for 180,000 citizens across three prefectures in case of an accident at the Takahama Nuclear Power...
AREVA awarded decontamination contract for Krummel NPP
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
AREVA NP has been selected by the utility Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy to decontaminate the primary loop of the Krummel nuclear power plant, located in Gees...
Radioactive matter migrates faster through fractured carbonate rock
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have found that radioactive matter migrates more quickly in carbonate bedrock formations once it has lea...
Japan governor supports more nuclear restarts
Dec 22, 2015 (AFP)
A Japanese regional governor said Tuesday he supports the restarting of two nuclear reactors, as a local court prepared to rule on an injunction that has suspen...
Russia to start building two nuclear reactors in Iran
Dec 22, 2015 (AFP)
Russia will start constructing two nuclear reactors in Iran next week, as Tehran seeks to reduce its reliance on oil and gas with 20 facilities over the coming ...
Japan to Suggest Possible Nuclear Waste Disposal Sites by Late 2016
Dec 21, 2015 (Sputnik)
Japan will provide a list of suitable locations for a radioactive waste disposal facility by the end of 2016, the Japanese economy, trade and industry minister ...
Putin Denies Russia Invested $3B in Turkey's Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant
Dec 19, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russian President Vladimir Putin denied reports on Thursday that Russia had invested $3.5 billion in the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turke...
Fire shuts down reactor at Belgian nuclear plant
Dec 19, 2015 (AFP)
Belgian power utility Electrabel said on Saturday that a nuclear reactor at its controversial Tihange plant near Liege automatically shut down after a fire brok...
ORNL process may set new course for extracting uranium from seawater
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
An ultra-high-resolution technique used for the first time to study polymer fibers that trap uranium in seawater may cause researchers to rethink the best metho...
Belgium restarts nuclear reactor, angers Germany
Dec 15, 2015 (AFP)
Belgian power utility Electrabel restarted an ageing nuclear reactor Tuesday after a near two-year shutdown, angering neighbouring Germany which fears the dange...
CGN signs nuclear deal with Kazakhstan's Kazatomprom
Dec 15, 2015 (XNA)
China General Nuclear Power Corp. (CGN) announced that it signed an agreement Monday with Kazakhstan's Kazatomprom to jointly build a nuclear fuel assembly plan...
SAfrican court sets aside awarding of nuclear tender to French company
Dec 15, 2015 (XNA)
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Thursday set aside the awarding of a four-billion-rand (about 266 million U.S. dollars) nuclear tender to a French company....
China to Operate 110 Nuclear Reactors by 2030
Dec 14, 2015 (XNA)
By 2030 China is expected to become one of the biggest nuclear energy users in the world with 110 nuclear reactors operational at that point in time, China Dail...
Japan and India agree bullet train, nuclear deals
Dec 12, 2015 (AFP)
Japan and India agreed several high-profile deals Saturday including on high-speed rail, defence technology and civil nuclear cooperation, Indian Prime Minister...
PPPL physicists propose new plasma-based method to treat radioactive waste
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are proposing a new way to process nuclear waste that uses a plas...
AREVA wins contract to dismantle the vessel internals of the Superphenix reactor
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
AREVA announces the signature of a contract of several tens of millions of euros with EDF for the dismantling of the vessel internals of the Superphenix reactor...
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