Tokyo (AFP) Jan 22, 2016 - Japan should free up its complex and rigid reactor inspection regime, a global nuclear watchdog said Thursday, as the country restarts more atomic plants five years after the disaster at Fukushima.
Copenhagen (XNA) Jan 22, 2016 - Denmark and Greenland have reached an agreement on the rules for future commercial exports of uranium from the island, local media reported Tuesday. Denmark's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has s
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 21, 2016 - Russian and Jordanian nuclear officials will convene in Amman in February to discuss the construction of Jordan's first nuclear power plant, the head of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) to
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 21, 2016 - With sanctions officially lifted, the Iranian government has announced plans to build a pair of nuclear power plants. Construction of two 1000-MW power plants will start soon, Ali Akbar Salehi, he
Montreal (AFP) Jan 21, 2016 - Ninety-two-thousand people have pressed Ottawa to reject a proposal to store nuclear waste in an underground vault near the Great Lakes, fearing a spill would contaminate this source of drinking water for 40 million in Canada and the United States.
Doel, Belgium (AFP) Jan 20, 2016 - The Netherlands has serious concerns about neighbouring Belgium's ageing nuclear reactors, the Dutch environment minister said Wednesday during a joint inspection of one plant with her Belgian counterpart.
Nieuw-Namen, Netherlands (AFP) Jan 18, 2016 - As the two cooling towers at Belgium's Doel nuclear power belch thick white steam into a wintry sky, people over the border in the Dutch town of Nieuw-Namen are on edge.
Brussels (AFP) Jan 18, 2016 - Luxembourg said Monday the Belgian authorities had failed to ease its concerns over the safety of at least one of Belgium's ageing nuclear reactors.
Tokyo (Sputnik) Jan 12, 2016 - A group of experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began on Monday its planned assessment of the Japanese government's efforts to ensure safe use of nuclear power plants. This m
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 5, 2016 - Japan will send a huge cache of plutonium - enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs - to the United States as part of a deal to return the material that was used for research, reports and officials said Tuesday.
Manchester, England (UPI) Jan 5, 2016 - Just a few days into 2016, and the first graphene story of the year is already here. New research further suggests there's nothing graphene can't do. The wonder material's latest feat is the production of heavy water - water with higher levels of the hydrogen isotope deuterium.
Brussels (AFP) Jan 4, 2016 - Belgium on Monday restarted a reactor that was shut down at the weekend just three days after returning to service amid concern in neighbouring countries over its nuclear safety.
Brussels (AFP) Jan 3, 2016 - An ageing Belgian nuclear reactor shut down on Saturday afternoon, just three days after it was restarted, but there was no safety risk, the power utility that operates it said.
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2016 - Russia and Egypt plan on signing a contract worth $26 billion in the first quarter of 2016 on the construction of Egypt's first nuclear power plant, a source from Russia's Atomstroyexport nuclear ag
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2016 - Russia's Rosatom nuclear agency's 10-year volume of exports have topped $110 billion in 2015, a company source said Monday. The 10-year volume of export orders have topped $110 billion. We ha
London (XNA) Jan 01, 2016 - The world's last surviving Magnox nuclear power plant closed Wednesday when the off switch was finally thrown. Wylfa power plant on the island of Anglesey in Wales has generated electricity fo
