CIVIL NUCLEAR

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Battling energy crisis, Pakistan turns on fourth nuclear plant
Dec 28, 2016 (AFP)
Pakistan's fourth nuclear power plant went online Wednesday, a joint collaboration with China that adds 340 megawatts to the national grid as part of the goverm...
Report finds additional radioactive materials in gas-well drill cuttings
Dec 23, 2016 (SPX)
Hydraulic fracturing has boosted U.S. energy production while coming under scrutiny for its potential environmental impacts, mostly related to the wastewater th...
Chemistry research breakthrough that could improve nuclear waste recycling technologies
Dec 23, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from The University of Manchester have taken a major step forward by describing the quantitative modelling of the electronic structure of a family o...
Researchers model the way into a nuclear future
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists from MIPT and the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences described the mobility of line defects, or dislocations, i...
Japan pulls plug on troubled fast breeder reactor
Dec 19, 2016 (AFP)
Japan has scrapped plans to generate electricity at a multi-billion dollar experimental nuclear reactor, the government said Monday, giving up on the decades-ol...
Bulgaria seeks investor to revive nuclear project
Dec 09, 2016 (AFP)
Bulgaria is looking for an investor ready to revive a long-delayed project for a new nuclear power plant on the Danube, the government announced Friday. The ann...
Japan switches on nuclear reactor after safety shutdown
Dec 09, 2016 (AFP)
Japan has restarted one of its few operating nuclear reactors after a two-month safety checkup, despite still-heated debate over atomic power following the Fuku...
Construction of nuclear fuel fabrication plant has started in Kazakhstan
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
National Atomic Company Kazatomprom and China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGNPC) have proceeded to implementation of a joint innovative project in the nu...
Court backs damage claims over German nuclear exit
Dec 06, 2016 (AFP)
A German court on Tuesday ruled that energy suppliers can claim compensation over the country's nuclear power phase-out following the 2011 Fukushima disaster, d...
Fukushima costs to double to nearly $180 bn: report
Dec 01, 2016 (AFP)
The estimated cost of dealing with the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis has doubled to some $180 billion, a report said Thursday, underlining the challenge Japan f...
'Diamond-age' of power generation as nuclear batteries developed
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the Unive...
Swiss reject speedy nuclear phaseout
Nov 27, 2016 (AFP)
Switzerland's ageing nuclear reactors will keep running for the foreseeable future, after voters Sunday rejected a call to speed up the phaseout of the plants. ...
Nuclear energy: who's advancing and who's retreating
Nov 27, 2016 (AFP)
Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a bid to speed up the phaseout of its ageing nuclear power plants, but is still sticking to its plan to gradually close its reac...
Vietnam scraps huge nuclear power plant projects
Nov 22, 2016 (AFP)
Power-hungry Vietnam scrapped plans for two multi-billion dollar nuclear power plants on Tuesday, citing environmental and financial reasons after the cost of t...
NY moves closer to shutting down Indian Point
Nov 22, 2016 (AFP)
New York state has taken another step toward shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant, outside New York city, officials said Monday. The decision of t...
Breakthrough offers greater understanding of safe radioactive waste disposal
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
A group of scientists from The University of Manchester, the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and the UK's synchrotron science facility, Diamond Light Source, ...
French power company EDF underestimating costs: study
Nov 17, 2016 (AFP)
France's power giant EDF has "drastically" under-budgeted the cost of dismantling its old reactors and investing in new projects such as a contested British nuc...
Finnish client 'alarmed' by French nuclear industry overhaul
Nov 16, 2016 (AFP)
Finnish utility TVO said Wednesday it was "alarmed" by the French nuclear industry's restructuring plans after France's Areva, which is building its troubled nu...
Time to tackle the UK's plutonium mountain
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
Professor Neil Hyatt, Research Chair in Radioactive Waste Management, calls for UK plutonium policy to be re-examined to allow swift immobilisation of UK's civi...
Vietnam to scrap planned nuclear plants: state media
Nov 11, 2016 (AFP)
Vietnam is scrapping plans to build two nuclear power plants over soaring costs and safety concerns, state media reported Friday. The communist nation approved ...
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