CIVIL NUCLEAR - WIND DAILY

PM opens country's fifth nuclear power plant

Sep 08, 2017 (AFP)

Pakistan is one of the few developing countries pursuing atomic energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, as it seeks to close an e...

Jacobs JV wins support contract for nuclear research center

Sep 06, 2017 (UPI)

The services by Mission Support and Test Services LLC, led by Honeywell International, is specifically for the Nevada National Security Site. The NNSS is a form...

China and Brazil sign agreements on nuclear power

Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)

They were inked following Temer's meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing ahead of next week's BRICS summit. Temer, who has vigorously sought Chinese inves...

Kazakhstan inaugurates IAEA-backed nuclear fuel bank

Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)

The bank is capable of storing enough low-enriched uranium fuel to light up a large city for three years and it is hoped that access to the fuel will dissuade c...

2018 start for Russia-backed nuclear plant work:

Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)

Building work on two new reactors at the Paks facility outside Budapest had been delayed as the EU examined the project's legality, but "now nothing can stop th...

operator faces $5 bn US suit over 2011 disaster

Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)

A total of 157 US residents who were supporting Fukushima victims at the time filed the class action suit in a California district court earlier this month agai...

129I waste used to track ocean currents for 15,000 km after discharge from nuclear plants

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

This tracer has been used to provide the most complete up-to-date, high-accuracy mapping of the oceanic currents that transport CO2 and other greenhouse gases f...

UAE nuclear programme edges toward 2018 launch

Aug 21, 2017 (AFP)

At the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) in Abu Dhabi, dozens of employees are reviewing the 15,000-page application for the Barakah Nuclear Energ...

Analysis highlights failings in US's advanced nuclear program

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

That is the conclusion of a new study from the University of California, San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University, published in the journal Environmental Resear...

Clashes at anti-nuclear demo in France

Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)

Protest organisers said six people were badly hurt and about 30 lightly injured in the clash in Bure. The local prefecture said that, according to calls to the ...

RWE optimistic for 2017, boosted by nuclear tax refund

Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)

The Essen-based group said net profit rose to 1.72 billion euros ($2 billion) from April to June, compared to a net loss of 403 million euros over the same peri...

The Roadmap for Increased Safety and Viability of Nuclear Power Plants

Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)

The report, the latest in the IAEA TECDOC Series, is entitled Assessment of Equipment Capability to Perform Reliably under Severe Accident Conditions, and highl...

Areva signs MOX fuel fabrication contract with Japan

Aug 02, 2017 (SPX)

The supply of MOX fuel assemblies for Kansai is a follow-up to agreements signed with Japanese utilities from 1975 onwards for the treatment of up to 3,000 tonn...

Construction of two nuclear power plants in US halted

Aug 01, 2017 (AFP)

Santee Cooper, one of those firms, said that because of construction delays the two planned reactors in South Carolina could not come on line before 2024, four ...

Nuclear contaminates earnings of France's EDF

Jul 28, 2017 (AFP)

Net profit slid 3.7 percent compared to the first half of last year to 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion), while operating profit tumbled 20.6 percent to 7.0 billio...

Underwater robot probes inside Fukushima reactor

Jul 21, 2017 (AFP)

A massive undersea earthquake on March 11, 2011 sent a huge wave barrelling into Japan's northeast coast, killing more than 18,500 people, and sending three rea...

Finland's TVO claims partial win in Areva nuclear dispute

Jul 20, 2017 (AFP)

Areva, together with German engineering group Siemens, has been building in Finland since 2005 what is meant to be a showcase of next-generation nuclear power, ...

Laser-Armed Nuclear Icebreakers: What Russia Has in Store for Arctic

Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)

In recent years, Russia has considerably expanded efforts to ensure sovereignty and security in the Arctic, building up new military infrastructure, and signing...

Britain must leave EU nuclear body: Verhofstadt

Jul 12, 2017 (AFP)

But Euratom could continue its functions with regard to Britain if London signs an association agreement with the European Union following its departure from th...

France could close a third of nuclear reactors: minister

Jul 10, 2017 (AFP)

In 2015, the previous Socialist-dominated parliament passed a law obliging the government to reduce the proportion of electricity generated from nuclear to 50 p...