Sofia (AFP) April 1, 2015 - Bulgaria has dropped a deal with US-based firm Westinghouse Electric to build a new reactor at its only nuclear plant because of financial pressures, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announced Wednesday.
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 31, 2015 - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts are set to visit Japan from April, 17 to April, 21, 2015 to obtain detailed data on contaminated water management at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi
Amman, Jordan (XNA) Mar 27, 2015 - Jordan and Russia signed a deal that is worth 10 billion U.S. dollars Tuesday to support the implementation of Jordan's first nuclear plant, the state-run Petra news agency reported. Khaled To
Tokyo (XNA) Mar 27, 2015 - A panel from Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said on Wednesday that a reactor at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga nuclear plant lies above an active geological fault line in Fukui Prefect
Seoul (AFP) March 26, 2015 - North Korea on Thursday denied involvement in cyber-attacks on South Korea's nuclear power plant operator, accusing Seoul of fabricating a story to shift the blame for high cross-border tensions.
Dalian, China (XNA) Mar 25, 2015 - The third generator unit at the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Station, the first nuclear power plant in northeast China, went into operation on Monday. The generator has an installed capacity of 1.1
Budapest (AFP) March 25, 2015 - Hungary said Wednesday it has reached a compromise with EU nuclear body Euratom over plans for Russia to be the sole supplier of nuclear fuel to the country's Paks power plant.
Amman (AFP) March 24, 2015 - 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 billion (9.2 billion euros).
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 20, 2015 - 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 the biggest of a kind since the 1986
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 20, 2015 - 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 safety checks following the 2011 Fuku
Tokyo (AFP) March 19, 2015 - 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's worst ever nuclear crisis.
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 18, 2015 - 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 public of the safety of the country's reac
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2015 - 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 officially ended with the 1994 election of
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 17, 2015 - 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 in the highly-damaging radiation enviro
Paris (XNA) Mar 17, 2015 - 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, a local newspaper reported on Monday
Taipei (AFP) March 14, 2015 - 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 plans to ship nuclear waste abroad, organisers said.
