Amman (AFP) Aug 20, 2013 - Jordan's Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given the go-ahead for a first nuclear research reactor as the desert kingdom, which lacks any oil, seeks to meet its energy needs.
Thionville, France (UPI) Aug 19, 2013 - The release of a hydrochloric acid from France's trouble-plagued Cattenom nuclear plant has renewed calls for its closure from nearby Luxembourg and Germany.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 15, 2013 - Westinghouse Electric Company and Toshiba Corporation have announced the formation of BWRPLUS, a new joint marketing organization for operating nuclear power plants in North America that will levera
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2013 - A shift to small modular reactors (SMRs) is unlikely to breathe new life into the increasingly moribund U.S. nuclear power industry, since SMRs will likely require tens of billions of dollars in f
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 14, 2013 - Japan will go without nuclear power for a period starting September when its only two operating reactors are shut down for mandatory safety checks, a utility company said Wednesday.
Grenoble, France (AFP) Aug 09, 2013 - An incident at a closed nuclear power plant in eastern France generated a lot of smoke Thursday, but won't have an impact on the environment, officials said.
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Aug 09, 2013 - Nagasaki on Friday marked the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing by the United States during World War II that turned the Japanese city into an inferno.
Tokyo (UPI) Aug 8, 2013 - The Japanese government has signaled it plans to take a more direct role in the clean-up effort at the Fukushima nuclear power plant amid rising concerns radioactive water is leaking into the Pacific Ocean.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 07, 2013 - Japan's prime minister Wednesday said Tokyo would get more involved in cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, as he described as urgent a battle to stop radioactive water from leaking into the ocean.
Paris, France (AFP) Aug 07, 2013 - French nuclear power group Areva has resumed full production of uranium at the Somair site at Arlit in northern Niger which was attacked in May, the company said on Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 04, 2013 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has given its first public estimate of the size of the leakage of radioactive tritium into the Pacific Ocean since the disaster.
Taipei (AFP) Aug 02, 2013 - Taiwanese lawmakers hurled water and wrestled each other to the floor of the island's parliament Friday in a brawl which broke out during a debate on the fate of a controversial nuclear plant.
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) July 31, 2013 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday it swung to a net profit in the quarter to June after a government bailout and electricity rate hike.
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) July 30, 2013 - Japan's nuclear watchdog will beef up monitoring at the crippled Fukushima power plant, an agency official said Tuesday, after leaks of radioactive groundwater into the ocean sparked heavy criticism of the site's operator.
Moscow (UPI) Jul 29, 2013 - A subsidiary of Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom said Tuesday it signed an agreement to build floating nuclear power plants with China.
Istanbul, Turkey (UPI) Jul 29, 2013 - A rejected environmental impact analysis report could delay construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant, the company behind the project says.
