
France insists on nuclear for ‘green’ hydrogen
Berlin (AFP) Oct 18, 2023 - France on Wednesday repeated calls to class hydrogen produced with atomic power as green, lining up a new clash with Germany over nuclear's role in Europe's energy plans.
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Berlin (AFP) Oct 18, 2023 - France on Wednesday repeated calls to class hydrogen produced with atomic power as green, lining up a new clash with Germany over nuclear's role in Europe's energy plans.
Oct 18, 2023

Ouagadougou (AFP) Oct 13, 2023 - Burkina Faso's junta-led government signed a deal with Russia on Friday for the construction of a nuclear power plant to increase the energy supply to the Sahel country where less than a quarter of the population has access to electricity.
Oct 13, 2023

Moscow (AFP) Oct 13, 2023 - Russia on Friday signalled it was interested in building nuclear infrastructure in West African state Mali, hours after securing an agreement to build a nuclear plant in neighbouring Burkina Faso.
Oct 13, 2023

Paris (AFP) Oct 12, 2023 - French nuclear firm Orano signed an agreement potentially worth 1 billion euros with Mongolia on Thursday to extract uranium, the French presidency said.
Oct 12, 2023

Krsko, Slovenia (AFP) Oct 5, 2023 - Slovenia's only nuclear power plant began a preventive shutdown on Thursday because of a leak in the site's containment building, the operator said in a statement.
Oct 5, 2023

Rooppur, Bangladesh (AFP) Oct 5, 2023 - Bangladesh received the first uranium delivery on Thursday for its Russia-backed nuclear plant, a project aimed at bolstering its overstretched energy grid but complicated by sanctions on Moscow.
Oct 5, 2023

Los Alamos IL (SPX) Oct 04, 2023 - The results of the Chi-Nu physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contributed essential, never-before-observed data for enhancing nuclear security applications, understanding criti
Oct 4, 2023

Guangzhou, China (XNA) Oct 02, 2023 - China's home-grown nuclear power facilities with safer technology have rolled off the production line, with over 20 third-generation nuclear power reactors currently in the pipeline, set to generate
Oct 2, 2023

Washington DC (SPX) Sep 27, 2023 - Framatome reports a $1 million contract award for phase two of the Digital Twin-based Diagnostics for Nuclear Auxiliary Systems project in North America. Phase two of this project focuses on t
Sep 27, 2023

London, UK (SPX) Sep 19, 2023 - New research that will develop technologies to detect and process radioactive waste has been awarded funding by the UK in partnership with the Japanese government. The research will support wo
Sep 19, 2023

Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2023 - Framatome completed a record-breaking reactor pressure vessel volumetric examination during the spring outage at Unit 2 of Dominion Energy's Surry Power Station. Working with the Dominion Ener
Sep 19, 2023

Stockholm (AFP) Aug 9, 2023 - Sweden's government said Wednesday it would remove limits on the number of nuclear reactors allowed in Sweden and simplify the permit process for new reactors.
Aug 9, 2023

Yuzhnoukrainsk, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 8, 2023 - Ukrainian nuclear power plants located in territory held by Kyiv will be fully operational by winter to provide electricity for the country, Ukraine's atomic energy operator said Monday.
Aug 8, 2023

Vienna (AFP) Aug 4, 2023 - The UN nuclear watchdog said Friday it found no mines or explosives on the rooftops and turbine halls of Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant after visiting the site.
Aug 4, 2023

Paris (AFP) Aug 1, 2023 - The military coup in Niger last week raises the question of Europe's dependency on uranium mined in the West African nation for its nuclear power plants.
Aug 1, 2023

Brussels (AFP) Aug 1, 2023 - The military coup in major uranium producer Niger does not pose a problem for supplies of nuclear fuel for the European Union, an EU spokesman said Tuesday.
Aug 1, 2023