Tokyo (AFP) July 3, 2018 - Japan's government on Tuesday pledged to modestly boost the amount of energy coming from renewable sources to around a quarter in a new plan that also keeps nuclear power central to the country's policy.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 - Could nuclear power make a significant contribution to decarbonizing the U.S. energy system over the next three or four decades? That is the question asked by four current and former researchers fro
Taishan, China (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 - Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 has been successfully connected to the Chinese grid at 2 pm on June 27, 2018 (local time). After the first criticality reached on June 6, this is the first EPR reactor wor
Paris (AFP) June 29, 2018 - A third generation EPR nuclear reactor in China started providing power to the grid on Friday, a first for the new-generation technology, joint venture partners CGN and EDF said.
Paris (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 - New technology has the power to improve competitiveness in nuclear power plant (NPP) maintenance, says Gilles Perrier, Head of Operational Excellence and Digital Transformation at Framatome's* Insta
Chernobyl, Ukraine (AFP) June 25, 2018 - The restricted zone around Chernobyl is eerily quiet but one building near the scene of the world's worst nuclear disaster is full of barking and whining.
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 - Joint research efforts of a team of scientists at Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod (UNN) comprising chemists, physicists and engineers are currently focused on solving the problems of handl
University Park PA (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 - Despite economic woes that could shutter two of Pennsylvania's nuclear power plants - which generate 6 percent of the state's power - power prices will remain steady due to low natural gas prices, a
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 14, 2018 - The Taishan 1 EPR reactor in China started up on June 6. This first chain reaction comes as the culmination of intense work accomplished by the nuclear industry for which Framatome is one of the ke
Sequim WA (SPX) Jun 14, 2018 - For the first time, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and LCW Supercritical Technologies have created five grams of yellowcake - a powdered form of uranium used to produce fuel fo
Exeter UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 - Milk in parts of Ukraine has radioactivity levels up to five times over the country's official safe limit, new research shows. Scientists from the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the Unive
Durham NC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 - A new Duke University-led study has found widespread uranium contamination in groundwater from aquifers in 16 Indian states. The main source of the uranium contamination is natural, but human
Sofia (AFP) June 7, 2018 - Bulgaria's parliament opened the way Thursday to revive a long-delayed project to build a new nuclear power plant by tasking the energy minister to hold talks with potential strategic investors.
Kiev (AFP) June 7, 2018 - A forest fire that had raged for three days in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, was put out Thursday and no increase in radiation in the air was detected, authorities said.
Paris (AFP) June 6, 2018 - A third generation EPR reactor in China carried out its first nuclear chain reaction on Wednesday, an initial start up which is a world first for the much-delayed European technology.
Kiev (AFP) June 5, 2018 - Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday said a bushfire had broken out in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, but radiation levels remained within safe limits.
