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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
London (AFP) June 4, 2018 - The British government said Monday it is considering directly investing in a nuclear power station project planned by Japanese giant Hitachi in Wales.
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 - Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials (TISNCM), and the National University of Science
Paris, France (SPX) May 31, 2018 - Framatome will be designing, fabricating and supplying EDF with fuel assemblies using enriched reprocessed uranium* (known as ERU)over the period 2023 to 2032 (1). These fuel assemblies, set
Paris, France (SPX) May 31, 2018 - Framatome signed an agreement with McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, to distribute cybersecurity solutions to energy transmission, distribution and generation facilities worldwide.
Paris, France (SPX) May 31, 2018 - Framatome provided Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corporation (JNPC) with its safety instrumentation and control (I and C) system for unit 3 of the Tianwan* nuclear power plant. This new built unit was succe
