Beijing (XNA) May 25, 2015 - China will have 30 million kilowatts (KW) of nuclear power capacity by the end of 2015, said Xu Yuming, deputy director of the China Nuclear Energy Association on Thursday. Currently there are
Birmingham AL (SPX) May 20, 2015 - Unit 1 of the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Ala., has safely resumed generating electricity following completion of a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage. Plant operators
Courbevoie, France (SPX) May 20, 2015 - PALLAS is a nuclear multi-purpose reactor designed to produce medical isotopes and supply a wide range of irradiation services. Located in Petten, the PALLAS-reactor is to replace the current High F
Tokyo (AFP) May 20, 2015 - Japan's nuclear watchdog on Wednesday gave the green light to restart one more atomic reactor, weeks after the government said a fifth of the country's electricity supply should come from atomic power.
Pickering, Canada (SPX) May 20, 2015 - The Organization of Canadian Nuclear Industries (OCI), in partnership with the Ontario Government, recently led a trade mission of 18 leading Canadian nuclear suppliers and industry partners to Sout
Seoul, Korea (SPX) May 20, 2015 - Bruce Power and Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) have entered into an agreement that will see the two companies explore new areas of collaboration with a particular focus on enhancing nuclear sa
Abu Dhabi Beijing (XNA) May 19, 2015 - The United Arab Emirates has presented its plans for managing spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), official news agency WAM reported Monday.
Cape Town (AFP) May 19, 2015 - South Africa intends to select this year an international partner to build a series of nuclear power reactors that would end the regular electricity blackouts that have hobbled economic growth, the energy minister told parliament Tuesday.
Yelabuga, India (Sputnik) May 19, 2015 - The second energy block of India's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant will go on line this summer, Rosatom Deputy Director Alexander Lokshin said Friday. The second block [will go on line] this y
Tokyo (AFP) May 19, 2015 - A Japanese court upheld an injunction banning the restart of two nuclear reactors, a report said Tuesday, in a blow to the government's ambitions to return to atomic power generation.
Moscow (Sputnik) May 19, 2015 - TEPCO said that it hoped to start the actual removal of the cover, which was installed by the company in 2011 to mitigate the damage done to the plant, in a week. The overall dismantling proce
Moscow (Sputnik) May 15, 2015 - Four years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the situation at the site remains complex, despite Japan's overall progress in its decommissioning, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sai
Helsinki (AFP) May 13, 2015 - Finnish electricity company TVO said Wednesday it had scrapped plans to build a new nuclear reactor in Finland because of delays and problems with an EPR reactor being built by Areva and Siemens.
Moscow (Sputnik) May 12, 2015 - One of the units of the Indian Point nuclear power plant was safely shut down after transformer's fire, according to the Entergy Corporation operating the facility. It stressed that there is n
Jakarta (XNA) May 12, 2015 - The Indonesian government will kick off construction of nuclear power plant that is set to generate power in 2024 or 2025, in an effort to get energy efficiently to comply with rising energy demand,
New York (AFP) May 10, 2015 - Engineers on Sunday were probing the cause of a fire at a New York state nuclear power plant after an electrical transformer failed, forcing the shutdown of one of its two reactors, a spokesman said.
