London, UK (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 - Better physics teaching with a particular emphasis on radioactivity and radiation science could improve public awareness through education of the environmental benefits and relative safety of nuclea
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 - Westinghouse Electric reports that the acquisition of Shaw Group's 20 percent ownership stake in Westinghouse by its current majority owner Toshiba Corporation would have no impact on any of the fou
Tehran (AFP) Sept 11, 2011 - Moscow's energy minister Sergei Shmatko on Sunday promised further nuclear cooperation with Iran, after Russia built the Islamic republic's first atomic power plant despite US objections.
Paris (AFP) Sept 7, 2011 - The new chief of the International Energy Agency Maria van der Hoeven said Wednesday nuclear power will have a place in the future despite the Fukushima catastrophe and the decision by some countries to opt out.
Tokyo (UPI) Sep 7, 2011 - The number of Japan's nuclear plants could dwindle to zero in the future, Japanese Industry Minister Yoshio Hachiro said.
East Lansing MI (SPX) Sep 07, 2011 - Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled the mystery of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals. Details of the process, which c
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 6, 2011 - Japan plans to seek advice from the UN atomic watchdog before restarting nuclear reactors stopped as a precaution after the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster, reports said.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 06, 2011 - Ten years after 9/11, researchers at Purdue University are continuing work that could lead to safer steel structures such as buildings and bridges and also an emerging type of nuclear power plant de
Tehran (AFP) Sept 4, 2011 - Iran's first nuclear power plant has been hooked up to the national grid supplying 60 megawatts of its 1,000 megawatt capacity, the country's Atomic Energy Organisation announced on Sunday.
Bucharest (AFP) Sept 2, 2011 - South Korea's BKB plans to invest in a project to build a third and fourth reactor at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in southeast Romania, the economic ministry said on Friday.
Washington (AFP) Sept 1, 2011 - A rare earthquake on America's east coast last month caused half the radioactive waste containers at a nuclear plant to move several centimeters but they were not damaged, operators said Thursday.
Beijing (UPI) Aug 29, 2011 - By settling for cheap technology, China has vastly increased the risk of a nuclear accident, claim diplomatic cables from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, The Guardian newspaper reports.
Lafayette, CO (SPX) Aug 26, 2011 - Sporian Microsystems has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to evaluate advanced materials, sensor designs and packaging for use in Generation IV nuclear reactors. Gen
Buenos Aires (UPI) Aug 25, 2011 - Argentina is keen to increase its capacity for nuclear power production, a major part of the national electricity grid, and has signed deals with Canadian supplier Candu Energy Inc. to help reach that target.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 22, 2011 - Some areas close to Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will likely remain no-go zones for several decades, a media report citing an unnamed government official said Monday.
Moscow (AFP) Aug 22, 2011 - North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il meets Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Siberia this week for rare talks expected to focus on energy cooperation, Pyongyang's nuclear programme and hunger in the isolated Communist state.
