Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2010 - The head of French nuclear energy giant Areva said Wednesday the state-controlled company needed more capital and that discussions had begun with strategic investors.
Bloomington IN (SPX) Jan 12, 2010 - Medical physicists from around the world converged at the ProCure Training and Development Center (TDC) last week for intense training in the physics of protons and proton therapy, an alternative to X-ray radiation for cancer treatment that spares healthy tissue and results in far fewer short- and long-term treatment side effects.
New York NY (SPX) Jan 12, 2010 - Nuclear Innovation North America has responded in a legal filing to the lawsuit CPS Energy filed on Sunday, December 6, 2009. NINA's goal is to work with our partners to find mutually agreeable solutions, not to file lawsuits against them, said Steve Winn, NINA Chief Executive Officer.
Sykesville MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2010 - GSE Systems has announced multiple awards during the current quarter totaling over $5 million of new work in its nuclear and non nuclear simulation business sectors.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2010 - The HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is awarding nine contracts for the advanced research and development of more effective tests and devices to determine the level of radiation a person has absorbed after a nuclear or radiological incident. The contracts total $35 million for the initial phase and up to $400 million over five years.
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 12, 2010 - On December 22, 2009, the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation registered Atomenergoprom's 2nd bond series placement report. At the same time public registration of Atomenergoprom's 1st bond series placement report took place on December 15, 2009.
Brussels (AFP) Jan 11, 2010 - The EU's new foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, distanced herself Monday from her anti-nuclear past, as European lawmakers grilled her about her suitability for the post.
Paris (AFP) Jan 7, 2010 - The French state-controlled nuclear engineering group Areva is about to shed its 25.78-percent interest in nickel mining company Eramet to the strategic investment fund (FSI), press reports said on Thursday.
Sofia (AFP) Jan 5, 2010 - Bulgaria announced Tuesday that it would close for maintenance one of the two 1,100 megawatt reactors at its sole nuclear power plant at Kozloduy on the Danube.
Tehran (AFP) Jan 3, 2010 - Iran said on Sunday the West has given it until the end of January to accept a uranium swap deal, stressing it will press on with plans to produce higher enriched nuclear fuel if there is no agreement.
Angra Dos Reis, Brazil (AFP) Jan 3, 2010 - Two nuclear plants close to a southern Brazilian town hit by landslides may shut down as a precaution, the mayor said Sunday, as the regional toll from deadly floods rose to 68.
Vilnius (AFP) Dec 31, 2009 - Lithuania Thursday shut down its Soviet-era nuclear plant under an EU deal in a move set to drive up electricity prices amid an economic crisis and leave it counting on ex-master Moscow for power.
Tehran (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 - Iran is ready to swap abroad its low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, the foreign ministry's spokesman said on Tuesday, insisting that the exchange should happen in several stages.
Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Dec 29, 2009 - The nuclear reactor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won't be converted to a safer fuel for at least five years, authorities said.
Paris (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 - The French nuclear power sector is to re-focus its strategy, notably in Britain and the United States, after losing out to a South Korean consortium on a 20.4-billion-dollar project in the United Arab Emirates.
Mumbai (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 - Two people were killed when a fire broke out at a nuclear research centre near India's financial capital Mumbai, but authorities ruled out any radioactive leakage, a report said Tuesday.
