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CB and I to Sell Nuclear Construction Business to Westinghouse
Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)
CB and I has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (WEC), in which WEC will acquire all of the outstanding...
Entergy to Close Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts
Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)
Entergy has announced that it will close its Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Mass., no later than June 1, 2019, because of poor market conditions, re...
Bechtel Applauds Successful Licensing of Second Reactor at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)
Bechtel has applauded the historic decision Thursday by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to grant an operating license to the Tennessee Valley Authority's...
Areva says Chinese nuclear company could take stake under terms of draft deal
Nov 02, 2015 (AFP)
French nuclear group Areva said Monday that the state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) could take a minority stake in its capital under a draft d...
Bulgaria replaces 370-tonne stator of nuclear power plant
Nov 02, 2015 (XNA)
Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant (NPP) has performed a unique replacement and installation of a new 370-tonne turbine generator stator of its 1,000 megaw...
China to set up third-generation nuclear power company
Nov 02, 2015 (XNA)
Two Chinese nuclear power giants plan to build a joint venture to combine technologies on China's third-generation nuclear reactor design, known as the Hualong ...
Bolivia announces plans for nuclear research complex
Oct 29, 2015 (AFP)
Bolivia announced plans Thursday to build a $300 million nuclear complex, including a research reactor, with Russian technology and help from Argentina. Preside...
UK Nuclear Plans in Meltdown After Shareholder Warning
Oct 28, 2015 (Sputnik)
A major international banking group is calling on shareholders to sell their holdings in French energy giant EDF just days after it signed a deal with its Chine...
Japan on track for another nuclear reactor restart
Oct 26, 2015 (AFP)
A local Japanese governor on Monday approved the restarting of another nuclear reactor, the latest due to be switched on despite strong public opposition to ato...
Argentina and Russia to enhance energy cooperation
Oct 26, 2015 (Sputnik)
Argentina and Russia are committed to enhancing cooperation in the energy field, President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner told RT TV channel on Thu...
Ukraine to Terminate Deal With Russia on Nuclear Fuel Plant Construction
Oct 22, 2015 (Sputnik)
In 2011, Russian fuel production holding company TVEL, part of the state corporation Rosatom, and Ukrainian company Nuclear Fuel signed an agreement for a 50-50...
Areva job cuts fuel union security concerns
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
Unions at French atomic energy giant Areva voiced concern over plant security Wednesday a day after the company said it would shed 2,700 French jobs in a two-ye...
China, Britain strike 'historic' nuclear deal
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
China vowed Wednesday to take a one-third stake in Britain's first nuclear power plant in decades, with Prime Minister David Cameron hailing an "historic deal" ...
Nuclear Science Advisory Committee issues plan for US nuclear physics research
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
Today, the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, or NSAC, publicly released "Reaching for the Horizon, The 2015 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science." The new plan...
China Increasingly Investing Money in New Nuclear Power Plants
Oct 20, 2015 (Sputnik)
The Chinese leadership recently developed the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020), according to which China is planning to increase the number of operating nuclear ...
China 'to take one-third stake' in UK nuclear plant
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
China has agreed to take a one-third stake in French power giant EDF's 25 billion pounds (34-billion-euro) next-generation nuclear project at Hinkley Point in B...
Iran likely to sell excess enriched uranium abroad instead of diluting it
Oct 20, 2015 (Sputnik)
The Iranian enriched uranium is expected to be exported to Russia. According to Russian officials, the preparatory work to import the enriched uranium could be ...
France's EDF seeks new deadline for EPR nuclear reactor
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
French energy group EDF has formally asked the government for a three-year delay until 2020 to the deadline for launching its next-generation EPR nuclear reacto...
Saudi, Hungary sign nuclear pact
Oct 19, 2015 (AFP)
Oil giant Saudi Arabia, which is trying to diversify its energy sources, signed an agreement Monday with Hungary to cooperate in the peaceful use of atomic ener...
Iran says ready to start 'huge task' of dismantling centrifuges
Oct 18, 2015 (AFP)
The "huge task" of disabling parts of Iran's nuclear infrastructure will probably start this week, a top official said Sunday as US President Barack Obama took ...
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