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The Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team produces Nuclear Power Daily's coverage of nuclear energy. We report on reactors and small modular reactors, the fuel cycle, waste and safety, policy, and fusion research. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Nuclear Power Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

EDF, CEA and AREVA establish the French Nuclear Platform

Paris, France (SPX) Apr 04, 2016 - In order to develop aligned positions to meet the major challenges facing the French nuclear sector and to prepare the appropriate decisions, EDF, the CEA and AREVA have decided to found the French

Apr 4, 2016

UK-US nuke waste deal to help fight cancer

London (AFP) March 30, 2016 - Britain will team up with the United States and European partners to exchange its nuclear waste for material to be used in the fight against cancer, Prime Minister David Cameron will announce Thursday.

Mar 30, 2016

Husband of Areva’s ex-chief charged with insider trading: source

Paris (AFP) March 30, 2016 - French authorities have charged the husband of French nuclear giant Areva's former boss Anne Lauvergeon with insider trading as part of a probe into its 2007 purchase of a Canadian uranium mining firm, a legal source said Wednesday.

Mar 30, 2016

France’s EDF stands by UK nuclear plant timetable

Paris (AFP) March 30, 2016 - French power company EDF said on Wednesday it is not planning any delay in the construction of the controversial Hinkley Point nuclear plant which is to go onstream in 2025.

Mar 30, 2016

Rosatom Studies Ecological Method of Uranium Mining in Tanzania

Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 29, 2016 - Uranium One, operated by Russia's Rosatom nuclear energy corporation, is studying the possibility of using an ecological and economically effective method of uranium extraction, called solution mini

Mar 29, 2016

‘No terror link’ in murder of guard at Belgian nuclear centre

Brussels (AFP) March 26, 2016 - The murder this week of a security guard at a Belgian nuclear research centre is a purely criminal affair unrelated to any terrorist threat, prosecutors said Saturday.

Mar 26, 2016

Japan utility to scrap reactor over heavy safety costs

Tokyo (AFP) March 25, 2016 - Japanese nuclear power operator said Friday it would decommission an ageing reactor because of the cost of upgrading, the sixth to be scrapped due to tougher rules brought in after the Fukushima disaster.

Mar 25, 2016

Russia’s Rosatom to train South African nuclear energy industry staff

Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 23, 2016 - Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom will help train personnel to develop South Africa's nuclear power industry on the basis of its educational programs, according to the agency's statement on Wednesday.

Mar 23, 2016

Researchers crack 50-year-old nuclear waste problem, make storage safer

Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Mar 23, 2016 - Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have adapted a technology developed for solar energy in order to selectively remove one of the trickiest and most-difficult-to-remove e

Mar 23, 2016

China’s advanced meltdown-free nuclear plant gets core component

Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 23, 2016 - Chinese enginners have installed the main component of a reactor in the Shandong Province nuclear power plant that is expected to become the world's first meltdown-free nuclear energy system. A reac

Mar 23, 2016

Vessel carrying plutonium departs Japan port for US

Tokyo (AFP) March 22, 2016 - A nuclear transport vessel carrying a huge cache of plutonium - enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs - to be returned to the US left a Japanese port on Tuesday afternoon.

Mar 22, 2016

France’s EDF to decide on UK nuclear plant by May: Macron

Paris (AFP) March 22, 2016 - French power company EDF will take a final investment decision on the controversial Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Britain by early May, Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday.

Mar 22, 2016

Vessel to carry plutonium to US arrives at Japanese port: media

Tokyo (AFP) March 21, 2016 - An armed nuclear transport vessel preparing to ship a huge cache of plutonium - enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs - to the US arrived at a Japanese port on Monday amid tight security, local media said.

Mar 21, 2016

Japan to send plutonium cache to US this weekend

Tokyo (AFP) March 18, 2016 - Japan will return a huge cache of plutonium - enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs - to the United States starting this weekend as part of a bilateral storage deal, Greenpeace and other anti-nuclear campaigners said Friday.

Mar 18, 2016

France says will recapitalise energy giant EDF ‘if there’s a need’

Paris (AFP) March 17, 2016 - The French government stands ready to inject fresh capital into energy giant EDF if necessary, Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday.

Mar 17, 2016

Energy giants call German nuclear phase-out ‘expropriation’

Berlin (AFP) March 15, 2016 - Three energy giants Tuesday told Germany's top court that they should be compensated for the nuclear phase-out Chancellor Angela Merkel's government decided after the Fukushima disaster five years ago.

Mar 15, 2016