Ottawa (AFP) April 15, 2015 - Canada's prime minister announced a breakthrough deal Wednesday to supply uranium to India for electricity generation, putting behind decades of discord over India's surreptitious use of Canadian technologies to build atomic bombs.
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 14, 2015 - Washington and Beijing are parties to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. I hereby approve the proposed Agreement and authorize the Secretary of State [Kerry] to arra
Ankara (AFP) April 14, 2015 - Turkey on Tuesday launched construction of its first nuclear power plant which Ankara hopes will open a new era of greater energy self-sufficiency, but the ceremony was marred by angry protests against the controversial $20 billion project.
Tokyo (AFP) April 14, 2015 - A Japanese court on Tuesday issued a landmark injunction against the restarting of two atomic reactors, after the country's nuclear watchdog had given the green light to switch them back on.
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 14, 2015 - The government of Japan is considering either evaporating the tritium-laced water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, or storing it underground. Tritium is a relatively harmless radioactive isot
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 14, 2015 - A robot sent to inspect a reactor' containment vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant stopped responding three hours into the operation. TEPCO hoped to take a look inside the vessel con
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 14, 2015 - The State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine issued a permit for the completion of the Chernobyl NPP decommissioning and dismantling activities of the first three units. The State
Tokyo (AFP) April 13, 2015 - Japan's pro-nuclear lobby pledged Monday that 2015 would be the year reactors are restarted, despite public wariness that has lingered since the Fukushima disaster.
Hanoi, Vietnam (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2015 - Russia's Rosatom will not revise their plans to build nuclear power plants abroad despite a challenging economic situation, head of the state-run corporation Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko, said Monday.
Hanoi, Vietnam (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2015 - Russia and China are discussing further broadening of bilateral cooperation in the sphere of nuclear development, an anonymous source told journalists on Monday. The expansion of cooperation
Sierra Blanca, TX (SPX) Apr 07, 2015 - Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp. has entered into a uranium offtake agreement with a subsidiary of AREVA, the world's largest nuclear and renewables energy company, headquartered in France. Ac
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 07, 2015 - According to the ministry, the funds were placed in nuclear giant Atomenergoprom, a subsidiary of the Rosatom state corporation, in the amount of 57.5 million preferential shares valued at 1,000 rub
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 07, 2015 - AREVA has won a series of contracts in China and in Spain within the framework of its Safety Alliance program, which aims to offer nuclear operators high-performance products and services to guarant
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 07, 2015 - AREVA delivered to its customer ELECTRABEL (a subsidiary of GDF-SUEZ) a new reactor vessel head for unit 3 of the Tihange nuclear power plant in Belgium. Weighing over 60 metric tons, this stainless
Beijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2015 - China has detected more than 350 uranium deposits nationwide over the past 60 years, a geological authority official said on Thursday. The country's uranium reserve has doubled in the recent 1
Islamabad (AFP) April 6, 2015 - Sri Lanka and Pakistan signed six agreements including one on atomic energy Monday, the two countries' leaders said, as the strategically important island looks to build its first nuclear plant.
