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Westinghouse to Buy Rolls-Royce's North American Civil Nuclear Unit

U.S. nuclear energy firm Westinghouse Electric Co said on Thursday it would buy Rolls-Royce Holding’s (RR.L) Civil Nuclear Systems and Services business in Nor…

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Nuclear Energy may have a Limited Future in the UK if the Labour Gets into Power

Even as the country’s main opposition party vows to drastically cut carbon emissions in the next decade, it also wants to rein in the expansion of one of the c…

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Hinkley Nuclear Power Station has Proved more Costly than They First Imagined

The cost of building the new nuclear power station at Hinkley is estimated to increase by between £1.9 billion and £2.9 billion. French energy giant EDF said …

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Chernobyl Used Fuel Store Ready for Commissioning

Holtec International has announced completion of the pre-commissioning programme, or 'cold tests', for the Chernobyl Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility…

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Three Mile Island Unit 1 has Been Shut Down for Economic Reasons

Operators took the 819 MWe (net) pressurised water reactor offline for the final time at midday on 20 September, after it set a site record of 709 continuous da…

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Central Asia Commits to Affordable and Clean Energy

Energy ministers from across Central Asia today committed their countries to collaborating on meeting the United Nations' seventh Sustainable Development Goal (…

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Russia's Floating Nuclear Power Plant to Be Commissioned

The floating power unit Akademik Lomonosov has arrived at the port of its permanent location in Pevek, Chukotka, in Russia's Far East, where it is being docked …

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Russia's First Sea-Borne Nuclear Power Plant Arrives to Its Base

Russia's first-floating nuclear power plant has arrived to its permanent base near an isolated Russian town across the Bering Strait from Alaska, Russian state …

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EDF has Warned Several of its Nuclear Reactors may have Problems

In a statement published on its website, EDF said nuclear reactor company Framatome – formerly called AREVA – informed it of a “deviation from technical stan…

Bulgarian Energy Holding

Bulgarian Energy Holding, through its subsidiary of Kozloduy NPP, owns and operatesKozloduy Nuclear Power Plant.

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Japan may Have to Dump Radioactive Water into the Sea

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T) will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs ou…

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Top Ten Biggest Nuclear Power Plants in China

China is the ninth largest country in terms of nuclear power capacity, with 48 nuclear power plants in operations and another nine under construction.

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Saudi Arabia Wants to Enrich Uranium for its Nuclear Power Program

Saudi Arabia wants to enrich uranium for its nuclear power program, its energy minister said on Monday, potentially complicating talks with Washington on an ato…

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Japan: 24 Commercial Reactors are Currently being Decommissioned

The Japan Atomic Energy Commission has urged plant operators to plan ahead to lower safety risks and costs requiring decades of work and billions of yen.

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Tokyo Electric Power, Chubu,Hitachi,Toshiba Cooperate on Nuclear Plant Businesses

Tokyo Electric Power, (9501.T) Chubu Electric Power, (9502.T) Hitachi (6501.T) and Toshiba (6502.T) have agreed to consider cooperating on their nuclear plant …