Paris (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 - French President Emmanuel Macron earned global plaudits for pledging to Make our planet great again, but he faces a moment of truth at home Tuesday in presenting his multi-year roadmap for France's transition to cleaner energy.
Paris (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 - President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that France would shut down 14 of the country's 58 nuclear reactors currently in operation by 2035, of which between four and six will be closed by 2030.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 - Japan's power sector is facing multiple challenges ranging from the reliability of nuclear power and boosting the share of non-hydro renewables. Against this backdrop, the success of the country's p
Wilmington NC (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 - GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and its PRISM technology have been selected by Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) to support the U.S. Department of Energy's Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) program which se
Wilmington NC (SPX) Nov 13, 2018 - Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) and Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has announced that GNF ENUSA Nuclear Fuel S.A. (GENUSA), a joint venture between ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas S.A. (ENUSA) and GNF, has been
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 09, 2018 - Framatome this week celebrated the grand opening of its Nuclear Parts Center (NPC) at the expanded Solutions Complex in Campbell County, Virginia. The NPC provides the nuclear energy industry with 2
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 8, 2018 - The boss of struggling Toshiba said Thursday he would cut 7,000 jobs over the next five years as the Japanese engineering firm pulled out of foreign investments and downgraded its annual profit forecasts.
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 - Laser-based 'optical tweezers' could levitate uranium and plutonium particles, thus allowing the measurement of nuclear recoil during radioactive decay. This technique, proposed by scientists at Los
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 - Framatome and Savannah River Remediation (SRR) successfully completed repair work on a high-level waste evaporator (3H) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Ca
Riyadh (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday laid the foundation stone for the kingdom's first nuclear research reactor, state media said, as the kingdom seeks to diversify its energy mix.
Tashkent (AFP) Oct 19, 2018 - Russia and Uzbekistan on Friday hailed the construction of an $11 billion nuclear power plant that should help solve an energy deficit in the Central Asian country while binding it tighter to Moscow politically.
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 - Scientists from Russia, China, and the United States predicted and experimentally identified new uranium hydrides, predicting superconductivity for some of them. The results of their study were publ
Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 - The United States said Thursday that it will increasingly restrict civilian nuclear exports to China as President Donald Trump vowed a hard line on trade, bluntly warning not to think Americans are stupid.
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 - The test piece machining workshop on the Le Creusot site, or CFE, has been using a latest-generation dimensional inspection tool since the spring. A test piece is a sample of steel taken from
Manoa HI (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 - A new University of Hawaii at Manoa study has produced a new technique involving heat that could help prevent nuclear power plant accidents. Boiling is usually associated with heating, howev
Paris, France (Spx) Oct 02, 2018 - On the occasion of the FROG Steering Committee held in Gangneung, South Korea, Framatome brought together nuclear operator members from all around the world to review the past year's activities and
