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Fukushima robot dies three hours after entering reactor vessel
Apr 14, 2015 (Sputnik)
A robot sent to inspect a reactor' containment vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant stopped responding three hours into the operation. TEPCO hope...
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to Officially Shutdown
Apr 14, 2015 (Sputnik)
The State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine issued a permit for the completion of the Chernobyl NPP decommissioning and dismantling activities of t...
Protests as Turkey starts work on first nuclear power plant
Apr 14, 2015 (AFP)
Turkey on Tuesday launched construction of its first nuclear power plant which Ankara hopes will open a new era of greater energy self-sufficiency, but the cere...
Japan Considers Evaporating Fukushima's Radioactive Water
Apr 14, 2015 (Sputnik)
The government of Japan is considering either evaporating the tritium-laced water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, or storing it underground. Tritium is a rela...
Japan's nuclear industry pledges to refire reactors
Apr 13, 2015 (AFP)
Japan's pro-nuclear lobby pledged Monday that 2015 would be the year reactors are restarted, despite public wariness that has lingered since the Fukushima disas...
Russia and China Hold Talks on Broadening Nuclear Cooperation
Apr 10, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russia and China are discussing further broadening of bilateral cooperation in the sphere of nuclear development, an anonymous source told journalists on Monday...
Russia keen to build more nuclear power plants abroad
Apr 10, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russia's Rosatom will not revise their plans to build nuclear power plants abroad despite a challenging economic situation, head of the state-run corporation Ro...
Texas Rare Earth Resources and AREVA Sign Uranium Deal
Apr 07, 2015 (SPX)
Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp. has entered into a uranium offtake agreement with a subsidiary of AREVA, the world's largest nuclear and renewables energy comp...
Delivery of Vessel Head to the Tihange 3 Nuclear Reactor in Belgium
Apr 07, 2015 (SPX)
AREVA delivered to its customer ELECTRABEL (a subsidiary of GDF-SUEZ) a new reactor vessel head for unit 3 of the Tihange nuclear power plant in Belgium. Weighi...
New Commercial Success for AREVA's Safety Alliance Program
Apr 07, 2015 (SPX)
AREVA has won a series of contracts in China and in Spain within the framework of its Safety Alliance program, which aims to offer nuclear operators high-perfor...
China has 350 uranium deposits
Apr 07, 2015 (XNA)
China has detected more than 350 uranium deposits nationwide over the past 60 years, a geological authority official said on Thursday. The country's uranium res...
Russia Transfers First $1Bln to Construct Nuclear Plant in Finland
Apr 07, 2015 (Sputnik)
According to the ministry, the funds were placed in nuclear giant Atomenergoprom, a subsidiary of the Rosatom state corporation, in the amount of 57.5 million p...
Sri Lanka, Pakistan sign nuclear agreement
Apr 06, 2015 (AFP)
Sri Lanka and Pakistan signed six agreements including one on atomic energy Monday, the two countries' leaders said, as the strategically important island looks...
Bulgaria drops $4bn Westinghouse nuclear deal
Apr 01, 2015 (AFP)
Bulgaria has dropped a deal with US-based firm Westinghouse Electric to build a new reactor at its only nuclear plant because of financial pressures, Prime Mini...
Atomic Experts to Visit Fukushima in April to Check Contaminated Water
Mar 31, 2015 (Sputnik)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts are set to visit Japan from April, 17 to April, 21, 2015 to obtain detailed data on contaminated water managem...
Jordan, Russia ink deal on nuclear reactor plant
Mar 27, 2015 (XNA)
Jordan and Russia signed a deal that is worth 10 billion U.S. dollars Tuesday to support the implementation of Jordan's first nuclear plant, the state-run Petra...
Japan's NRA confirms fault line under nuclear reactor on west coast active
Mar 27, 2015 (XNA)
A panel from Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said on Wednesday that a reactor at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga nuclear plant lies above an active ...
N. Korea denies hacking nuclear plants in South
Mar 26, 2015 (AFP)
North Korea on Thursday denied involvement in cyber-attacks on South Korea's nuclear power plant operator, accusing Seoul of fabricating a story to shift the bl...
NE China nuclear plant generator operational
Mar 25, 2015 (XNA)
The third generator unit at the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Station, the first nuclear power plant in northeast China, went into operation on Monday. The generator ...
Hungary reaches EU deal on nuclear fuel from Russia
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
Hungary said Wednesday it has reached a compromise with EU nuclear body Euratom over plans for Russia to be the sole supplier of nuclear fuel to the country's P...
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