Nuclear Energy News

Russian state nuclear power corporation Rosatom plans to work with aluminum giant UC RusAl to build a 4GW nuclear plant and an aluminum factory in the Far East, a Rosatom subsidiary said on Saturday.

BETHESDA, Md., -- USEC Inc. has submitted its application for a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to fund construction of the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio.

Poland may run out of electricity in 12 years, and after 2020 the demand for electricity will exceed its production by 30 percent, the Energy Market Agency predicted in a report on Thursday.

Radiation levels measured at the fence line of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant were 30 percent higher in 2007 than in 2006.

TEHRAN, Iran : President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran now possesses 6,000 centrifuges, machines used to enrich uranium, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

South African state power utility Eskom [ESCJ.UL] said on Saturday it had shut down a second unit at its Koeberg nuclear plant but did not anticipate the move would lead to electricity cuts.

Despite how the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board might rule, either for or against contentions filed by the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, the important part is that citizens exercised their rights to have their concerns heard, said a consultant to the coalition.

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rejected a motion by a coalition of six citizens groups to add a new contention to the relicensing application for the Oyster Creek Generating Station. The citizens groups argued that if the nuclear power plant's license was extended, certain nozzles in the reactor could by negatively affected by metal fatigue, according to the board's written decision.

Vast majority of Pakistanis would like to see Iran as a nuclear power and think that Iran should not bow before the international pressure over nuclear issue.

India's government faces a too-close-to-call confidence vote Tuesday that could scuttle a landmark nuclear energy accord with the United States and lead to early elections.

Emergency officials say a warning alarm has triggered the automatic shutdown of a nuclear reactor in western Ukraine. Officials at the Emergency Situations Ministry said a fall in water levels at a steam generator in the third reactor of the Rivne nuclear power plant caused Thursday's shutdown.

The British ambassador to Moscow and two of his diplomats were refused entry to a UK-funded nuclear fuel storage facility in Russia when they turned up on a scheduled visit, an embassy spokesman said on Friday.

A hearing on the proposed re-licensing of Vermont Yankee nuclear plant wrapped up with federal regulators and the plant's owners testifying about a computer model designed to predict the effects of aging on the plant's piping.

The completion of Brazil's Angra 3 reactor looks more doubtful after the country's environment minister set 60 tough conditions for the project.

A congressional panel endorsed a measure Thursday that would give conditional approval of a civil nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Russia.

SINGAPORE: Japan, a prominent member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group , will assess India's case "in a manner that does not hinder, but [instead] reinforces the global disarmament and non-proliferation regime."

Beijing: China on Thursday remained ambiguous on whether or not it would back the India-U.S. civilian nuclear energy deal. Responding to a question from The Hindu on Beijing’s intended stance, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Liu Jianchao said, “China is currently studying the draft safeguards agreement and the relevant study work is still ongoing.”

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Teams from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and the Idaho National Laboratory have been selected to develop a process called "deep burn," the U.S. Department of Energy said. They will share $7.3 million to devise the process, which generates energy while destroying plutonium and other radioactive material from spent nuclear fuel.

The French electricity group EDF is ready to unveil a £12bn deal for the takeover of the UK's nuclear power generator British Energy as early as next week.

Iran signaled Thursday that it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year after it began.