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AREVA signs contract with NuScale to manufacture SMR fuel assemblies
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
AREVA Inc. has signed a contract to manufacture fuel assemblies for NuScale's small modular reactor (SMR). Under this agreement, AREVA will supply the initial c...
South Korea offers to participate in Czech nuclear program
Dec 09, 2015 (Sputnik)
South Korean President Park Geun-hye offered Wednesday to help Prague complete construction of some new units at a Czech nuclear power plant, Czech President Mi...
Turkey says not dependent on Russia for nuclear plant
Dec 09, 2015 (AFP)
Turkey on Wednesday insisted it was not dependent on Russia to build its first nuclear power plant amid uncertainty over the $20 billion project because of the ...
Russian ready to reprocess spent Fukushima nuclear fuel
Dec 08, 2015 (Sputnik)
A Russian nuclear facility is upgrading to assist Japan to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from the Fukushima nuclear plant in the near future, the company said in...
Russian Government Not Suspending Turkish Stream, Akkuyu Nuclear Projects
Dec 08, 2015 (Sputnik)
The implementation of major investment projects, such as the Turkish Stream and the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, are not being suspended by Russia's recent gover...
Ship carrying nuclear waste arrives in Australia
Dec 05, 2015 (AFP)
A ship carrying 25 tonnes of radioactive waste arrived back in Australia on Saturday, met by activists who warned against the vast nation becoming a nuclear dum...
Nuclear power as panacea for climate change? Experts divided
Dec 04, 2015 (AFP)
As delegates at a Paris summit haggle over how to curb global warming, the role of nuclear energy in limiting climate-changing emissions is the subject of fierc...
Hungary open to dialogue with EU over nuclear plant expansion
Dec 04, 2015 (Sputnik)
Hungary is open to talks with the European Union to build additional reacts for its only nuclear power plant in partnership with Russia, Hungary's chief of expa...
Russia's Rosatom ready to work with Japanese NPP suppliers
Dec 04, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom is ready to develop cooperation with Japanese equipment suppliers to construct nuclear power plants, Rosatom's...
Nuclear power crucial for UN climate goal: top scientist
Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)
Capping global warming at two degrees Celsius, the UN goal, would require a massive scaling up of nuclear power, a top climate scientist said Thursday. But even...
AREVA and Hitachi-GE sign Memorandum of Understanding
Dec 02, 2015 (SPX)
AREVA and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd. have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the field of decommissioning and decontamination of boiling w...
Argentina's nuclear energy accords with China a historic opportunity
Dec 01, 2015 (XNA)
Argentina's accords with China on building two nuclear plants in the South American country represent a "historic opportunity" for the Latin American nation, a ...
Nuclear agreement between Seoul, Washington comes into effect
Dec 01, 2015 (Sputnik)
An agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy between South Korea and the United States came into effect on Wednesday, the South Korean Foreign Ministry sa...
Belgium extends lives of ageing nuclear reactors
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
Belgium agreed to extend the life of two ageing nuclear reactors for another decade under a hard-won deal to preserve jobs and invest in the transition to clean...
Too Early to talk about status of Russia-Turkey joint projects
Dec 01, 2015 (Sputnik)
The prospects of joint Russian-Turkish projects, including the construction of a nuclear power plant in Turkey, cannot be currently ascertained without careful ...
AREVA NP Strengthens Market Position for Nuclear Plant Cyber Security Services
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
AREVA NP, through the North America-based subsidiary AREVA Inc., was recently awarded several contracts totaling more than 10 million euros ($11 million) to pro...
Foreign groups seek to build Poland's first nuclear plant
Nov 30, 2015 (AFP)
Five power giants from around the world have expressed interest in building Poland's first nuclear plant, the state-owned utility behind the multi-billion-euro ...
Nuclear waste storage sites in rock salt may be more vulnerable
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
Research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that rock salt, used by Germany and the United States as a subsurface container for radioactive waste, mig...
Russia orders retaliatory economic measures against Turkey over jet
Nov 27, 2015 (AFP)
Russia is preparing a raft of retaliatory economic measures against Turkey after Ankara downed one of its warplanes, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursda...
French group to help Japan dismantle nuclear reactors
Nov 27, 2015 (AFP)
French nuclear giant Areva said Thursday it had linked up with Hitachi GE Nuclear Energy to help Japan dismantle boiling-water nuclear power stations. Following...
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