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.
Rome (AFP) Jan 19, 2010 - The head of Italian energy giant ENEL vowed Tuesday to develop a pro-nuclear culture nearly a quarter-century after atomic energy was banned in Italy.
Paris (AFP) Jan 18, 2010 - French nuclear giant Areva is in talks with several foreign investors including sovereign funds to raise billions of euros in capital for expansion, the chief executive said Monday.
Chicago (AFP) Jan 15, 2010 - A pair of fowl hunters sparked a brief lockdown of a Texas nuclear weapons plant Friday, officials said.
Berlin (AFP) Jan 15, 2010 - German radiation protection officials said Friday that all 126,000 barrels of nuclear waste stored since the 1970s in an unstable and leaking former salt mine would have to be removed as soon as possible.
Seoul (AFP) Jan 14, 2010 - South Korea has agreed to build Jordan's first atomic research reactor, just two weeks after winning a landmark 20.4 billion dollar deal in the United Arab Emirates, officials said Thursday.
Kuwait City (AFP) Jan 14, 2010 - Kuwait and France signed on Thursday a cooperation agreement for the peaceful use of nuclear energy, officials said.
Tehran (AFP) Jan 13, 2010 - Hezbollahi or staunch supporter of Iran's regime, active backer of the opposition, even apolitical scientist -- the political affiliation of murdered atomic scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi was unclear on Wednesday.
Sofia (AFP) Jan 13, 2010 - One of two reactors at Bulgaria's nuclear plant at Kozloduy has been plugged back into the electricity grid after being shut down for maintenance last week, the plant's operators said Wednesday.
