CIVIL NUCLEAR - WIND DAILY

Jordan agrees deal for Russia to build nuclear plant

Mar 24, 2015 (AFP)

Jordan said Tuesday it has signed a framework agreement with Russia for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the kingdom at a cost of $10 billio...

Japan to Restart Nuclear Reactor in June, First Since Fukushima Disaster

Mar 20, 2015 (Sputnik)

In March 2011 Japan shut down all its 48 nuclear reactor following the meltdown of Fukushima nuclear plant caused by an earthquake and tsunami. The incident was...

Japan Aims to End Nuclear Power Ban in June

Mar 20, 2015 (Sputnik)

A reactor in Japan cleared another regulatory hurdle Wednesday, marking progress toward the country's return to nuclear power after all units were shut down for...

Nearly all fuel inside Fukushima reactor melted: TEPCO

Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)

New tests show almost all of the fuel inside one of the Fukushima plant's reactors has melted, its operator said Thursday, the latest step in the clean up after...

Japan to Retire Five Old Nuclear Reactors

Mar 18, 2015 (Sputnik)

Three of Japan's fifty nuclear reactors will be decommissioned due to old age and two more will follow suit shortly as the government seeks to reassure the publ...

Areva studies Chinese investment

Mar 17, 2015 (XNA)

French state-controlled nuclear group Areva was studying a possibility to get investments from China as part of restructuring plan aimed at reversing heavy loss...

South Africa Rebuffs US Attempts to Take Over its Nuclear Materials

Mar 17, 2015 (Sputnik)

South Africa has enough nuclear fuel for about six bombs - each of them would wipe out Washington, DC, or large sections of New York City. After apartheid offic...

Los Alamos offers new insights into radiation damage evolution

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

Two reports from Los Alamos National Laboratory this week in the Nature journal Scientific Reports are helping crack the code of how certain materials respond i...

Taiwan stages mass anti-nuclear rally

Mar 14, 2015 (AFP)

Thousands of people took to the streets in Taiwan on Saturday to call for the island to scrap its use of nuclear energy and to voice opposition to controversial...

Hungary, EU say in talks over Budapest-Russia nuclear deal

Mar 13, 2015 (AFP)

Hungary and Brussels denied Friday that the EU has blocked Budapest's 12.5 billion euro ($13 billion) nuclear deal with Russia, saying that talks were still ong...

Hungary denies EU nuclear veto report

Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)

Hungary denied Thursday a newspaper report that the European Union has vetoed its planned nuclear project with Russia, a move which could strain frosty relation...

When it comes to nuclear disaster, safety really is in numbers

Mar 12, 2015 (SPX)

The safety of nuclear plants, as well as the medical management of acute radiation syndrome, could soon be dramatically improved thanks to a new mathematical eq...

France's Areva to cut 1,500 jobs in Germany

Mar 11, 2015 (AFP)

French nuclear group Areva, which incurred massive losses last year, is looking to cut around 1,500 jobs in Germany by the end of 2017, a company spokesman said...

China Should Speed Up Its Nuclear Development to Meet 2020 Goals

Mar 10, 2015 (Sputnik)

Chinese authorities will be forced to speed up the approval process for constructing new nuclear reactors if they want to meet 2020 goals, according to the chai...

TEPCO Pledges to Reveal All Data on Fukushima Radioactive Contamination

Mar 10, 2015 (Sputnik)

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has pledged it would release all the information regarding Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant radioactive contamination after it had ...

Fukushima Nuclear Exiles in No Hurry to Return Home

Mar 06, 2015 (Sputnik)

Approximately 120,000 residents of Fukushima Prefecture still remain evacuees because of radiation exposure fears. Despite the central government lifting evacua...

South Korea, Saudi Arabia to Pen Nuclear Cooperation Agreement

Mar 04, 2015 (Sputnik)

South Korea and Saudi Arabia will sign an agreement on nuclear cooperation. The nuclear cooperation agreement will be signed during a visit by South Korean Pres...

British nuclear site clean-up costs soar

Mar 04, 2015 (AFP)

The cost of decommissioning and cleaning up Britain's Sellafield nuclear site have been revised upwards to 53 billion pounds ($81 billion, 73 billion euros), th...

Areva nuclear group announces 4.8 bn euro loss

Mar 04, 2015 (AFP)

French nuclear group Areva confirmed Wednesday record net losses in 2014 of 4.8 billion euros ($5.3 billion) after it was forced to absorb costs linked to delay...

Study Involving UT Nuclear Engineer Could Change Nuclear Fuel

Mar 04, 2015 (SPX)

The adverse effects of radiation on nuclear fuel soon could be better controlled thanks to research involving the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of...