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Constellation Issues First US Nuclear Green Bond

Constellation Energy has issued the first corporate green bond in the USA that can be used to finance nuclear energy projects. The company will use proceeds fro…

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Bill Gates’ Terrapower to Fast Track First Next-Gen Nuclear Plant in US

(Oliver Helbig/Getty Images)A company co-founded by Bill Gates is about to start building next-generation nuclear power plants in the US.Chris Levesque, CEO of …

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Icicle-Shaped Objects Found in Fukushima Daiichi Reactor May Carry Fuel Debris

Icicle-shaped objects that may contain molten nuclear fuel have been found in a reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, according…

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Work Under Way on Akkuyu Decommissioning Costs

TVEL has entered an agreement "to develop cost plans for the decommissioning" of the four units being built at Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which ar…

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GNS and Energysolutions Team up for Asian Market

EnergySolutions of the USA and Germany's GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH have signed a memorandum of understanding on the transport and disposal …

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IAEA to Help Iraq Develop Peaceful Nuclear Programme, Agency Head Says

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi waits to meet Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the prime minister's off…

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Bulgarian Nuclear Experts Question Economic Viability of New Nuclear Project

Bulgaria will build the two nuclear reactors with loans, and only 30% of the construction costs will be financed with money from the state budget, according to …

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Fourth Discharge of Treated Wastewater From Fukushima Nuclear Plant Completed Sun.

Photo : YONHAP NewsThe government announced Monday that the discharge of treated wastewater from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant will be carri…

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Japan Could Be Nearing Restart of World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant

The world’s largest nuclear power plant, among the facilities taken offline after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, could be nearing a restart.Japanes…

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The Likelihood of Nuclear Energy in Australia via 13 Timelines

(IMAGE: PRIVATE MEDIA/ZENNIE)Years since the Ziggy Switkowski report on nuclear energy for the Howard government: 17.Years Switkowski predicted it would likely …

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Atucha 2 Gets Renewed Operating Licence

Argentina's nuclear regulator has issued a renewed licence to Nucleoeléctrica Argentina for the operation of the second unit of the Atucha nuclear po…

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Lower Tier of Tianwan 8’s Inner Containment Dome Lifted Into Place

The lower part of the inner containment building's dome has a diameter of 44 metres at its base and is just over 12 metres high. The upper dome part will be…

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First Concrete Poured at Leningrad 7

The concreting of the 2100-square-metre foundation slab for the new VVER-1200 unit has begun, with those attending the occasion told the additional Leningrad nu…

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El Dabaa: Installation of First Unit's Inner Containment Starts

Work has begun on the first tier of the inner containment building for the first unit of the El Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt.(Image: Rosatom)El Dabaa will…

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IAEA Governors Resolution on Zaporizhzhia Criticised by Russia

The board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution calling for the immediate return of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to…