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GE Hitachi joins TerraPower to Support Versatile Test Reactor

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and TerraPower have announced a collaboration to pursue a Public-Private Partnership to design and construct the Versatile Test …

Nuclear Technology

Iran Threatens to Quit Global Nuclear Pact if Europeans Turn to Security Council

FM Zarif says his country may abandon the Non-Proliferation Treaty if 3 EU member states pursue further measures over its alleged violations of 2015 nuclear dea…

Nuclear Technology

Nuclear Waste Could Be Recycled for Diamond Battery Power

A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol hope to recycle radioactive material directly from a former nuclear power plant in Gloucestersh…

South Korea's SMART SMR Gets a New Life

(NucNet) The government of South Korea and the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy in Saudi Arabia have updated their agreement to create a joint…

Nuclear Policy

Iran’s Parliament Reviewing Cooperation with IAEA

Iranian Members of Parliament, in a statement issued on Sunday, announced that they are reviewing Tehran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Age…

Nuclear Fuel

Nuclear Waste could be More Useful

Chemists have found a new use for the waste product of nuclear power - transforming an unused stockpile into a versatile compound which could be used to create …

Nuclear Power Plant

UAE’s First Nuclear Reactor to Start Operations ‘Within Months’

The nuclear plant west of Abu Dhabi was built by a consortium led by the Korea Electric Power Corporation

Nuclear Policy

Zarif: We will Never Negotiate a New Nuclear Deal

Iranian Foreign Minister rules out possibility of any negotiation on a new nuclear deal.

Nuclear Fuel

The Future Of The Iran Nuclear Deal

The Iran nuclear deal, promising Iran sanctions relief for limited nuclear activity, still exists. European partners want to save the deal but face pressure fro…

Nuclear Fuel

Russia Slams E3’s Statement on Iran Nuclear Deal as ‘Dangerous Turn’

Acting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the E3’s plans to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism on the Iran nuclear deal as "a dangerous tur…

Nuclear Power Plant

Japan's Shikoku Electric Says to Delay Nuclear Reactor Restart After Court Order

Japanese utility Shikoku Electric Power Co said on Friday it had been ordered by a Hiroshima court to suspend operations of its only operable nuclear reactor, t…

Nuclear Power Plant

Japan's Shikoku Electric Says to Delay Nuclear Reactor Restart

Japanese utility Shikoku Electric Power Co said on Friday it had been ordered by a Hiroshima court to suspend operations of its only operable nuclear reactor, t…

Nuclear Power Plant

How Drawing Digital Insights from Nuclear’s Past can Create a Safer Industry

Nearly a decade after the major earthquake and tsunami that irreversibly damaged four of Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear reactors in Japan, China and India are rea…

Nuclear Fuel

GNF Accident-Tolerant Fuel Loaded into US Reactor

Lead test assemblies using the company's ARMOR-coated zirconium cladding and IronClad accident-tolerant fuel solutions have been installed at Exelon's Clinton b…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russian Repair Improvements Led to 3 TWh more Power in 2019

Greater efficiency in Russian nuclear power plant maintenance outages saved nearly 180 days last year and enabled 2.9 terawatt hours more electricity to be prod…