India signed an inspections agreement with the UN atomic watchdog on Monday as part of a deal lifting a 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with New Delhi, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
France, which hopes for deals to export tens of billions of dollars worth of nuclear technology to India, on Monday hailed the Asian giant's inspections agreement with the UN atomic watchdog.
Japan will shortly launch talks with South Korea and Vietnam on cooperation in developing nuclear energy, with its sights set on growing demand in emerging economies, a report said Sunday.
French nuclear power engineering company Areva is to sign a deal this week with a number of Indian energy plants, France's foreign trade minister Anne-Marie Idrac said here Sunday.
While France this week announced plans to build a second pressurised water nuclear reactor (EPR), the world's first next-generation EPR being built in Finland has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.
French environmentalists on Friday assailed President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to build a new nuclear reactor in northern France, saying the project would blunt efforts to develop renewable energy.
Progress Energy's four nuclear plants in the Carolinas and Florida set a record for safe, efficient, carbon-free electricity generation in 2008.
EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said Friday negative public opinion limited the use of nuclear energy in the bloc, but vowed to push it as far he could.
India will next week sign an inspections agreement with the UN atomic watchdog as part of a deal lifting a 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with New Delhi, diplomatic sources said Friday.
While meeting workers at Sellafield, Derek Simpson, the joint leader of Unite, will urge the Government to push ahead with the nuclear re-build programme to…
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants.
Northwestern University scientists say they've created a material that can trap the radioactive ion cesium while ignoring harmless ions such as sodium.
German engineering group Siemens said Monday it is to give up its stake in Areva NP, the reactor subsidiary of French nuclear power giant Areva.
Reports have surfaced that French utility EDF will not sell its British power grid.
The National Nuclear Security Administration says it has authorized the start-up of the new Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility.
Slovak Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek said Friday the country would cancel both a state of energy emergency and a decision to relaunch its Soviet-type nuclear reactor.
