New Delhi (AFP) Oct 08, 2014 - A paramilitary officer charged with guarding a nuclear plant shot and killed three of his colleagues on Wednesday in a shooting spree at their base in southern India, authorities said.
Brussels (AFP) Oct 08, 2014 - The EU on Wednesday approved Britain's ambitious plan to build its first nuclear plant for a generation, with French and Chinese help, marking a major victory for nuclear energy three years after the Fukushima disaster.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Oct 03, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company has announced it has booked nearly $500M worth of additional nuclear fuel contracts with eight utility customers in its Americas region within the past year. The contra
La Paz (AFP) Oct 02, 2014 - Bolivia's President Evo Morales on Thursday announced plans to spend two billion dollars to build a nuclear energy plant, with construction set to get underway later this year.
Stockholm (AFP) Oct 01, 2014 - Sweden's Social Democrats and Greens, in negotiations to form a government, announced Wednesday they had reached an agreement to freeze nuclear energy development.
Pretoria (AFP) Oct 01, 2014 - South Africa denied Wednesday any corruption was involved in a multi-billion dollar nuclear energy deal after controversy erupted over whether Russia had won the contract.
Moscow (AFP) Oct 01, 2014 - Moscow and Kazakhstan have initialled an agreement on jointly building and operating what would become Kazakhstan's only nuclear power plant, Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom said on Wednesday.
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Sep 25, 2014 - Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. The experimenta
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 25, 2014 - Nanocomposite oxide ceramics have potential uses as ferroelectrics, fast ion conductors, and nuclear fuels and for storing nuclear waste, generating a great deal of scientific interest on the struct
Paris (SPX) Sep 25, 2014 - AREVA Federal Services (AFS), an AREVA subsidiary in the United States, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue the development of next generation fuel for lig
East Lansing MI (SPX) Sep 18, 2014 - A microbe developed to clean up nuclear waste and patented by a Michigan State University researcher has just been improved. In earlier research, Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist, identified
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Sep 17, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the opening of the company's first outage control center to provide vital central monitoring and response to its utility customers' outage operations at U
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 16, 2014 - AREVA signed a contract with the agency Fusion for Energy* which gathers the European partners of the ITER fusion project, to manufacture a first wall panel prototype. The contract also includes d
London, UK (SPX) Sep 15, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company has announced it signed two instrumentation and control (I&C) system cooperation agreements with China's State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Company (SNPA
Givat Shmuel, Israel (UPI) Sep 8, 2014 - An underwater security system to protect a nuclear power plant against divers and unmanned vehicles has been ordered from Israel's DSIT Solutions Ltd.
Tehran (UPI) Sep 2, 2014 - Following an announcement of new U.S. sanctions on Iran, an energy official in Tehran said the country is looking to vastly expand its nuclear power capacity.
