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| January 14, 2014 |
 IAEA to support Vietnam's nuclear projects Hanoi, Vietnam (UPI) Jan 13, 2013 - The International Atomic Energy Agency said it would provide support to Vietnam for its nuclear power sector. Vietnam is teaming with Russian utility and energy company Rosatom on the country's first nuclear power plant, a two-reactor facility, in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan. Construction of the first reactor, with a total capacity of 2,000 megawatts, is slated to begin th ... more |  |
S. Korea president eying nuclear business on India trip New Delhi (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - South Korea's president arrives this Wednesday in India on an official visit during which she is expected to push for some of the South Asian nation's nuclear business, officials said. India and South Korea, two of Asia's biggest economies, struck a civilian nuclear agreement in 2011 and now Seoul is exploring possibilities for a nuclear project. The South Korean President Park Geun-Hye ... more |  |
UN nuclear experts to visit Iran on Saturday: report Tehran (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - UN nuclear experts will visit Iran on Saturday to prepare for a deal curbing the Islamic republic's atomic programme two days before it takes effect, an official in Tehran said. The International Atomic Energy Agency "experts will visit Tehran on January 18 to prepare for the implementation of the Geneva agreement," IRNA news agency quoted Behrouz Kamalvand, spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energ ... more |  |
TEPCO to siphon off radioactive water from tunnels under Fukushima plant Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 13, 2014 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant plans to start cleaning underground tunnels believed to be part of the sources of radioactive materials poisoning the groundwater in the area. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will first block the flow of tainted water between the damaged buildings and the tunnels. Workers will begin burying pipes in the ground to carr ... more |  |
 Microalgae and aquatic plants can help to decrease radiopollution in the Fukushima area Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2014 - After a huge earthquake caused severe damage to the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, Japanese plant scientists have been working to determine the impact of radioactive contamination on wild and cultivated plants. In a special issue of Springer's Journal of Plant Research, these experts examine the potential adverse effects of radioactivity on nature and society. Of particular inter ... more |  |
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Fukushima operator paid way over odds on procurement Tokyo (AFP) Jan 10, 2014 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has paid way over the odds to contractors, a company spokesman said Friday, vowing to boost cost-controls at the taxpayer-subsidised firm. An internal probe looking at how contracts worth 1 trillion yen ($10 billion) were awarded has found the company routinely paid a lot more than the going rate because prices were inflated by layers ... more |  |
Japan scientists to create controlled nuclear meltdown Tokyo (AFP) Jan 09, 2014 - A team of nuclear scientists in Japan said Thursday they plan to create a controlled reactor meltdown in a bid to learn how to deal with future disasters like that at Fukushima. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it was working on a project using a scaled-down version of a reactor which they would deliberately cause to malfunction at a research facility in Ibaraki, north of Tokyo. "We w ... more |  |
Greenland and Denmark to agree on uranium in 2014: Danish PM Copenhagen (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - An agreement between Greenland and Denmark governing uranium extraction in the Arctic territory will be in place by the end of the year, the Danish prime minister said on Wednesday. "I'm confident that we will get a cooperation agreement in place in the second half of 2014," Helle Thorning-Schmidt said at a press conference after meeting with her Greenlandic counterpart Aleqa Hammond. "W ... more |  |
Czech environment minister cancels nuke waste repository site survey Brno, Czech Republic (UPI) Jan 6, 2013 - Exploration of an area of the southeastern Czech Republic as a site for long-term radioactive waste storage has been canceled, the environment ministry says. Czech Republic Environment Minister Tomas Podivinsky announced Friday a planned geological survey of the Kravi Hora site in the state of Moravia for a long-planned deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel has been scrapped ... more |  |
Westinghouse Announces Setting of AP1000 Plant Shield Building Conical Roofs Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jan 03, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium team member CB&I and China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation announce the successful setting of the shield building conical roofs on the first units of the AP1000 plants under construction in Sanmen and Haiyang, China. The lift and set of the conical roofs for Sanmen and Haiyang Units 1 were completed on Nov. 23 and Dec.15 by the Joi ... more |  |
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China loans Pakistan $6.5 bn for nuclear plants Islamabad (AFP) Jan 02, 2014 - China has agreed to lend Pakistan $6.5 billion to help build nuclear power stations including a 2,200-megawatt plant in Karachi, as Beijing increases its involvement in the cash-strapped country. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the package at a briefing on Wednesday, saying it would help ensure an uninterrupted power supply. The loans are to be provided by Chinese state-owned Exim ... more |  |
 Renewables Provides All New US Electrical Generating Capacity In November Washington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - According to the latest "Energy Infrastructure Update" report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, solar, biomass, wind, geothermal, and hydropower "units" provided 394 MW - or 100% - of all new electrical generation placed in-service in November 2013. There was no new capacity during the month from natural gas, coal, oil, or nuclear power. Renewable e ... more |  |
Fukushima operator readies new restructuring plan Tokyo (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Tokyo Electric Power Wednesday submitted a fresh restructuring plan to a Japanese government-backed fund that envisages the creation of a special unit to dismantle the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. TEPCO president Naomi Hirose pledged thorough implementation of the plan, once approved by the government as expected next month. The utility's board Tuesday approved a draft plan that wou ... more |  |
Saudi royal firm to file complaint against France's EDF Riyadh (AFP) Dec 31, 2013 - Saudi-owned Soroof International will file a complaint against French energy giant EDF, the conglomerate chaired by Prince Bandar bin Abdullah al-Saud said on Tuesday. The complaint would be filed in Saudi courts in the coming days to "seek remedies against the offences and harms caused to Soroof International and His highness Prince Bandar," the company said in a statement emailed to AFP. ... more |  |
Romania says Enel, ArcelorMittal exit nuclear project Bucharest (AFP) Dec 23, 2013 - Energy giants Enel and ArcelorMittal will pull out of the construction of two nuclear reactors in Romania after a Chinese company entered the deal, Romanian officials said Monday. Italy's Enel and the Romanian subsidiary of ArcelorMittal "have decided to sell their stakes of respectively 9.15 and 6.2 percent in EnergoNuclear," the project company, said Nuclearelectrica, a Romanian state-owne ... more |  |
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Westinghouse Expands European Nuclear Center To Meet Growing Demand Nivelles, Belgium (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - Westinghouse Electric Company today inaugurated the extension of its European Maintenance Center in Nivelles, Belgium to provide scalable growth to support an increasing customer base, including Electricite de France (EDF), as well as Spanish energy giants Endesa and Iberdrola. The expansion will provide an additional 1,000 square meters of maintenance and storage space to support the Cent ... more |  |
Solvay and AREVA team up to develop new thorium applications Paris, France (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - Solvay and AREVA have signed an agreement to develop new applications for the use of thorium, an element that is abundantly present in the earth's crust and part of rare earth elements or uranium. The agreement aims to define the conditions ensuring the responsible management of thorium. It includes the deployment of a R and D program to study, amongst others, the use of thorium as a poten ... more |  |
Over 1,000 protest in Niger against French nuclear firm Areva Niamey (AFP) Dec 21, 2013 - More than 1,000 demonstrators marched in the Niger capital Niamey on Saturday to protest against their country's "unbalanced" partnership with nuclear firm Areva as the French giant negotiates a new uranium mining agreement with the government. The protesters, including students, rights activists and politicians, chanted "Down with Areva!" and "No to a win-lose contract" as they made their w ... more |  |
Finland's Fennovoima inks reactor deal with Russia's Rosatom Helsinki (AFP) Dec 22, 2013 - Finnish power company Fennovoima has signed an agreement with Russia's Rosatom for the delivery of a mid-sized nuclear reactor, the Finnish company said in a statement. The planned reactor, of the type AES-2006, will be located in Pyhaejoki in northwest Finland and be operational in 2024, Fennovoima said. As part of the agreement signed Saturday, Rosatom will take a 34-percent stake in F ... more |  |
Japan to boost financial support for Fukushima operator Tokyo (AFP) Dec 20, 2013 - Japan will nearly double financial support for the operator of Fukushima to $86 billion, as the government vowed to speed up the removal of contaminated soil and compensation for victims. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ministers Friday held a meeting of the nuclear emergency response headquarters and adopted new guidelines they hope will speed up recovery from the disaster more than two-a ... more | |
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