Sheffield UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2012 - ILW makes up more than three quarters of the volume of material destined for geological disposal in the UK. Currently the UK's preferred method is to encapsulate ILW in specially formulated cement.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 24, 2012 - More than a thousand people protested outside the Japanese prime minister's residence in Tokyo on Friday calling for an end to nuclear power after last year's Fukushima atomic crisis.
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Aug 24, 2012 - Fueling nuclear reactors with uranium harvested from the ocean could become more feasible because of a material developed by a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 23, 2012 - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's first face-to-face meeting with anti-nuclear protestors received mixed reviews Thursday, with some media saying it only served to highlight an unbridgeable gap.
New Delhi (UPI) Aug 23, 2012 - An Indian government auditing agency criticized India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board for not being truly autonomous and for its lack of a radiation safety policy.
Melbourne (UPI) Aug 22, 2012 - Mining giant BHP Billiton has put on hold its $30 billion expansion of the Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine project in South Australia.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 22, 2012 - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda met anti-nuclear demonstrators face-to-face on Wednesday for the first time since weekly rallies outside his office began five months ago.
Coutances, France (AFP) Aug 21, 2012 - A student demonstrator against a new high-voltage electricity line in northern France was handed a three-month jail term Wednesday, in what campaigners decried as a politically charged judgement.
Philadelphia (UPI) Aug 21, 2012 - U.S. scientists say they're making progress towards a 40-year-old dream of extracting uranium for nuclear power from seawater.
Vienna (UPI) Aug 20, 2012 - The Fukushima Daiichi disaster slowed but didn't reverse the expansion of nuclear power in 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in Vienna.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 17, 2012 - Japanese anti-nuclear demonstrators on Friday recounted the horror of World War II, days after the region marked Tokyo's surrender nearly seven decades earlier.
Brussels (AFP) Aug 16, 2012 - Belgium stepped up controls on nuclear safety that found cracks in the casing of an ageing reactor and led to two sites now closing after learning of signs of fissures in French atomic power plants, the national watchdog said Thursday.
Dubai (AFP) Aug 15, 2012 - The United Arab Emirates said Wednesday it had selected six companies to supply fuel to its four planned nuclear reactors in deals worth an estimated $3 billion (2.43 billion euros).
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2012 - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has acted to put a hold on at least 19 final reactor licensing decisions - nine construction and operating licenses (COLS), eight license renewals, one o
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 14, 2012 - Toshiba plans to sell some of its controlling stake in nuclear-power unit Westinghouse Electric as it looks to form an alliance to tap demand in emerging markets, reports said Tuesday.
Antwerp, Belgium (UPI) Aug 13, 2012 - The chief of Belgium's nuclear power regulatory agency says he's skeptical the Doel-3 reactor near Antwerp can ever be re-started.
