Civil Nuclear
UNIST improves remote detection of hazardous radioactive substances
A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has introduced a method for the remote detection of hazardous radioactive substances.
Civil Nuclear
AREVA-EWN consortium to dismantle the Reactor Pressure Vessel at Brunsbuttel
Under the contract signed with Vattenfall GmbH, the AREVA-EWN Consortium is to dismantle and package the reactor pressure vessel internals of the Brunsbuttel nuclear power plant in Germany.
Civil Nuclear
German court nukes tax on power firms
Power companies in Germany stand to gain billions in refunds from the government after the country's top court declared Wednesday that a nuclear fuel tax was illegal.
Civil Nuclear
Nuclear-wary Japan restarts another atomic reactor
A Japanese utility switched on another nuclear reactor Tuesday in a small victory for the government's pro-atomic push, despite strong public opposition after the 2011 Fukushima meltdown.
Civil Nuclear
A new twist on the origin of uranium
Uranium, the radioactive element that fuels nuclear power plants and occurs naturally in the Earth's crust, is typically mined from large sandstone deposits deep underground.
Civil Nuclear
Three Mile Island nuclear plant to close in 2019
The Three Mile Island atomic power plant -- site of the worst U.S. commercial nuclear accident in 1979 -- will cease operations in 2019, owner Exelon Corp.
Civil Nuclear
EU clears EDF takeover of Areva reactor business
EU anti-trust regulators on Monday cleared the buyout of Areva's troubled state-owned nuclear reactor business by EDF, the electricity supplier also owned by the French state.
Civil Nuclear
Why nuclear could become the next ‘fossil’ fuel
A gray dinosaur statue outside south Florida's largest power plant is meant to symbolize two decommissioned fossil fuel reactors, but it also could be seen to represent a nuclear industry crumpling under mounting costs.
Civil Nuclear
Hungary: AREVA NP awarded contract for safety IC modernization at Paks Nuclear Power Plant
AREVA NP will update the reactor protection system of the Paks nuclear power plant* 4 units together with its Hungarian consortium partner evopro systems engineering Kft.
Civil Nuclear
Swiss vote for gradual nuclear phaseout, energy makeover
The Swiss voted Sunday in favour of a massive overhaul of the country's energy system by gradually replacing the power from its ageing nuclear reactors with renewable sources.
Civil Nuclear
Coatings for nuclear fuel preventing explosions in reactors, developed at TPU
Physicists from Tomsk Polytechnic University are creating protective titanium nitride-based coatings for shells of fuel elements (fuel rods) of nuclear reactors.
Civil Nuclear
Japan restarts another reactor
A Japanese utility on Wednesday switched on a nuclear reactor, the latest to come back in service despite deep public opposition in the aftermath of the Fukushima crisis.
Civil Nuclear
India to build 10 domestic nuclear power reactors
India on Wednesday said it will develop 10 domestically-built heavy water reactors to increase its nuclear power capacity, as it looks to ramp up clean energy generation.
Civil Nuclear
South Africa to restart nuclear power plans
South Africa will relaunch plans to build nuclear power plants by signing new agreements with several countries, Energy Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi said Saturday.
Civil Nuclear
Tunnel collapses at US nuke site, no radiation leak
Thousands of workers at a nuclear site in the US state of Washington were ordered to take cover Tuesday after a storage tunnel filled with contaminated material partially collapsed, but there was no indication of a radioactive leak.
Civil Nuclear
Tunnel collapse at US nuclear site raises safety concerns
The collapse of a tunnel at the most contaminated nuclear waste site in the United States has raised safety concerns at such facilities described by some as ticking time bombs.