Nuclear Energy News

Thursday, 19 November 2009, 1:01 pm Press Release: Greenpeace Olkiluoto, Finland, 18 November - The cargo ship Happy Ranger made port in Finland today, carrying its cargo of steam generators from France, intended for a nuclear reactor under construction at Olkiluoto.

Canada has announced a new liberal business visa regime for Indian businessmen to catch up with other industrialised nations in boosting trade with India.

A new report says nuclear power plants would take too long to build and are too expensive to make any impact on global warming.

Areva, which has partnered with UniStar's Electricite de France on other nuclear projects, held a "supplier day" in Baltimore Thursday to identify potential vendors for the Lusby reactor.

Istanbul: Turkey yesterday scrapped a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant - a process that had been under threat of being invalidated by a court decision.

Ontario Power Generation Inc. reported a net income surge in the third quarter despite falling customer demand.

Nuclear facilities and power plants are contaminating local Canadian food and water with radioactive waste that increases risks of cancer and birth defects, says a new report to be released on Friday.

Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on Thursday in announcing a push for Town Meeting Day votes on whether the plant should keep operating past 2012.

Following is the opinion of the writer, policy fellow at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, and chair of the former Uranium Development Partnership.

Legislation co-authored by Rep. Bart Gordon to ban importation of low-level nuclear waste was approved by a House committee Thursday.

Cameco Corp., which plans to double annual uranium output from its existing operations by 2018, will consider acquiring mining assets and forming joint ventures with customers in Asia, chief executive officer Jerry Grandey said.

The Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Program, initiated by the Department of Energy in 2002, used INL's unique Advanced Test Reactor in a nearly three-year experiment to subject more than 300,000 nuclear fuel particles to an intense neutron field and temperatures around 1,250 degrees Celsius.

BALTIMORE -- As Maryland closes in on the construction of a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, an environmental organization has released a report calling nuclear power a step backward in the nation's race to reduce pollution.

New Hampshire's Seabrook Station nuclear power plant is conducting an emergency siren test.

Colorado state lawmakers are asking the U.S. Senate to limit funding for coal and nuclear energy as Congress moves to pass an energy bill.

Two supervisors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant have filed federal complaints claiming they suffered retaliation for reporting safety violations.

France's nuclear energy company Areva announced Tuesday that it signed a 15-year contract with the Czech state-owned power utility CEZ to provide uranium enrichment service for Czech nuclear power plant.

The world's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency , conducted a second inspection of a Syrian reactor Tuesday - a day after the agency made clear it was not satisfied with Syria's explanation about uranium particles found there.

An experimental reactor that could harness nuclear fusion has yet to see the light of day, but preparations for the daring multi-billion-dollar project are well under way.

India Gazette Monday 16th November, 2009 Nuclear installations in the country have been put on high alert and security tightened as a precautionary step after intelligence agencies cited possible terror attacks, home ministry sources said Monday.