Riyadh (AFP) Feb 1, 2010 - The Saudi government on Monday approved joining the Nuclear Safety Convention, the UN nuclear watchdog agency's pact on maintaining safety in nuclear power plants.
Saint Petersburg, Russia (AFP) Feb 1, 2010 - A cargo loaded with depleted uranium from France docked Monday in Russia's port city of Saint Petersburg, Greenpeace said, as Russian activists protested at the nuclear waste exports.
Madrid (AFP) Jan 30, 2010 - Eleven Spanish towns have volunteered to host a major new nuclear waste storage site, a long-delayed project that is fiercely opposed by environmentalists, Spanish media reported Saturday.
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 29, 2010 - UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukio Amano said Friday his agency was still trying to negotiate a uranium enrichment deal amid new Western warnings to the Islamic state over its atomic programme.
Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - Ever wanted to see a nuclear reactor core in action? A new computer algorithm developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory allows scientists to view nuclear fission in much finer detail than ever before.
Sykesville, MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - GSE Systems has announced that it recently delivered the Cook full scope Nuclear Power Plant simulator to American Electric Power. The Company announced this award in its August 15, 2008 Press Release.
Wilmington NC (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Detroit Edison, Michigan's largest electric utility, have announced an agreement advancing the potential deployment of a next-generation nuclear reactor design.
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - Covidien has reported a definitive agreement to sell its radiopharmacies in the United States to Triad Isotopes, Inc. of Orlando, Florida. Triad operates a network of 26 nuclear radiopharmacies and six cyclotron facilities in the southeast United States. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Richland WA (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - The Babcock and Wilcox Company has been awarded a contract to support a condenser replacement project at Energy Northwest's Columbia Generating Station in Richland, Washington. B and W will begin preparations for the project that will take place during a 2011 outage at the plant.
Paris (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 - French nuclear giant Areva and energy firm GDF Suez are preparing a cooperation agreement to build a medium-sized reactor in France and share engineering expertise, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 - South Korea's president offered Monday to help energy-hungry India build more nuclear plants as the two Asian powerhouses set a goal of doubling bilateral trade by 2014.
Cherbourg, France (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 - Greenpeace activists said Monday they were blocking a train transporting nuclear waste to the French port of Cherbourg from where it was to be shipped to Russia.
Berlin (AFP) Jan 22, 2010 - A leak in a uranium enrichment plant in Germany exposed an employee to a high level of radiation but posed no danger to people outside the facility, the firm operating the plant said on Friday.
Moscow (AFP) Jan 21, 2010 - A nuclear power plant in Iran being built by Russia will go into service by the end of this year, Russian atomic energy chief Sergei Kiriyenko said Thursday.
Rome (AFP) Jan 20, 2010 - Italy, which plans to reintroduce atomic power after a ban dating from the Chernobyl disaster, will announce sites for new nuclear plants in 2011, an official said Wednesday.
Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2010 - The French government on Wednesday gave energy firms Areva and EDF two weeks to settle a row over nuclear fuel treatment that had turned into an ugly public spat between France's two showcase companies.
