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RUSSIAN COMMISSION TO BEGIN PROBE INTO REPORTED RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION


A Russian scientific commission will investigate reports of radioactive pollution almost 1,000 times above normal levels in the southern Urals, state nucle... READ MORE

25th November, 2017 0

RUSSIA OPENS COMMISSION INTO 'NUCLEAR INCIDENT' REPORT


Nuclear scientists have created a commission to discover the origin of ruthenium-106, Rosatom said in a statement, also released by the country's Nuclear Safety Institute... READ MORE

24th November, 2017 0

THAT 'HARMLESS' RADIOACTIVE CLOUD OVER EUROPE DID COME FROM RUSSIA AFTER ALL


BERLIN -- Remember that harmless radioactive cloud that mysteriously drifted across Europe back in September?... READ MORE

21st November, 2017 2940

RUSSIA DENIES NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AFTER RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION


But a representative of Rosatom nuclear corporation told AFP there have been no incidents at nuclear infrastructure facilities in Russia... READ MORE

21st November, 2017 0

RUSSIA CONFIRMS SPIKE IN RADIOACTIVITY AFTER NUCLEAR ACCIDENT CLAIMS


Mayak accounts for half of Russian exports of radioactive isotopes... READ MORE

21st November, 2017 454

A RADIOACTIVE CLOUD WAFTS OVER EUROPE WITH RUSSIA AS CHIEF SUSPECT


German and French nuclear security agencies concluded that the pollution had not threatened the health of Europeans or the environment in which they live... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 17012

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES CHALLENGE SCOTTISH NUCLEAR WASTE TRANSFERS


Scottish government policy allows for the substitution of nuclear waste with a radiologically equivalent amount of materials from Sellafield in Cumbria, northern England... READ MORE

13th November, 2017 211

MYSTERIOUS RADIOACTIVE CLOUD HOVERING OVER EUROPE TRACED BACK TO RUSSIA


The radioactivity was discovered after monitors in Italy picked up on the ruthenium-106 isotope in the air... READ MORE

12th November, 2017 79

RADIOACTIVE CLOUD THAT COVERED EUROPE MIGHT BE FROM RUSSIA. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT THOUGH.


A city near the Ural Mountains in Russia, where the French believe a cloud of radioactive particles was released in September... READ MORE

11th November, 2017 2190

NUCLEAR ACCIDENT SENDS 'HARMLESS' RADIOACTIVE CLOUD OVER EUROPE


There has been no impact on human health or the environment in Europe, it said... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 14914

IS THIS PLACE IN THE SHADOW OF THE 'WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS NUCLEAR PLANT'?


Stefano Morelli About 20 miles from Armenia's capital city of Yerevan sits the antiquated Metsamor nuclear power plant... READ MORE

2nd November, 2017 436

RUSSIA TO BUILD NUCLEAR PLANTS IN NIGERIA


Russia has signed a deal to build two nuclear power plants in Nigeria, as Africa's largest economy seeks to end its energy crisis... READ MORE

1st November, 2017 1245

EVEN COAL GENERATORS ARE LUKEWARM ON TRUMP'S PLAN TO HELP THEM


Dynegy Inc., and some other coal generators are poised to profit from Energy Secretary Rick Perry's plan to change power market rules... READ MORE

24th October, 2017 216

SOUTH KOREA TO RESUME BUILDING TWO NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS, BUT SCRAPS PLANS FOR 6 OTHERS


The world's fifth-biggest nuclear energy user currently runs 24 nuclear reactors, generating a third of the country's total electricity needs... READ MORE

24th October, 2017 139

SOUTH KOREA'S PRESIDENT SAYS WILL CONTINUE PHASING OUT NUCLEAR POWER


South Korea has 24 nuclear reactors, supplying a third of its electricity... READ MORE

22nd October, 2017 0

SOUTH KOREA WILL RESUME NUCLEAR REACTOR WORK


South Korea Will Resume Reactor Work, Defying Nuclear Opponents... READ MORE

22nd October, 2017 365

SOUTH KOREA SURVEY BACKS RESTARTING CONSTRUCTION OF TWO NUCLEAR REACTORS


The suspension was one of President Moon Jae-in's key campaign pledges to allay public worry over nuclear power... READ MORE

20th October, 2017 783

COLD WAR RADIATION TESTING IN U.S. WIDESPREAD, AUTHOR CLAIMS


An army spokeswoman declined comment, but Martino-Taylor's 2012 report on testing in St. Louis was troubling enough to spur an army investigation... READ MORE

2nd October, 2017 435

BEWARE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY'S FAKE NEWS ON BEING EMISSIONS FREE


The editorial asserts Nuclear power has a trump card it is a zero-carbon technology which delivers a continuous, uninterrupted supply... READ MORE

17th September, 2017 443

THREAT OF NORTH KOREAN EMP ATTACK LEAVES JAPAN VULNERABLE


Takashi Onizuka of the Ground Self-Defense Force has long warned that a nuclear EMP attack could be catastrophic for Japan... READ MORE

10th September, 2017 206

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FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR REACTOR RADIATION AT HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2011 MELTDOWN


The one-metre-wide hole was probably created by nuclear fuel that melted and then penetrated the vessel after the tsunami knocked out Fukushima Daiichi's back-up cooling system... READ MORE

3rd February, 2017 74612

PUTIN FACING MULTI-MILLION POUND LEGAL ACTION OVER ALLEGED ROLE IN MH17 CRASH


The evidence at the crash site will not tell you if it was a Ukraine or Russian operator of the Buk launcher... READ MORE

20th June, 2015 5794

IRAN AGREES TO DETAILED NUCLEAR OUTLINE FIRST STEP TOWARD A WIDER DEAL


Mr. Zarif and other Iranian officials may have an even harder political argument to win... READ MORE

3rd April, 2015 5557

ALL TSUNAMI ALERTS LIFTED AFTER 7.4 QUAKE ROCKS NORTHERN JAPAN


Japan lifted all tsunami alerts after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the coast of Fukushima, home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 triple disaster... READ MORE

23rd November, 2016 4824

AS HARVEY RAGED, WORKERS SLEPT ON COTS TO KEEP NUCLEAR POWER ON


Teams of employees have been stationed at the South Texas Project power plant since early Friday... READ MORE

31st August, 2017 4704

'TAKE COVER' EMERGENCY DECLARED AT HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION IN WASHINGTON STATE


Near where two tunnels join together there is a six-metre by six-metre cave-in, said a Hanford joint information centre spokesperson... READ MORE

9th May, 2017 4419

EXPLOSION AT EDF'S FLAMANVILLE NUCLEAR PLANT IN NORTHERN FRANCE


Nuclear power provides four-fifths of France's electricity generation, but much of the country's ageing nuclear fleet is expected to close in the 2030s... READ MORE

9th February, 2017 3942

LAW CHANGED SO NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS CAN BE FORCED ON LOCAL COMMUNITIES


Friends of the Earth's planning advisor, Naomi Luhde-Thompson, said Communities will be rightly concerned about any attempts to foist a radioactive waste dump on them... READ MORE

5th April, 2015 3743

ROBOT FINDS POSSIBLE MELTED NUCLEAR FUEL


An underwater robot spotted the lava-like rocks inside a reactor of Japan's destroyed nuclear plant... READ MORE

23rd July, 2017 3256

JAPAN, INDIA SIGN AGREEMENT ON CIVIL NUCLEAR POWER


Energy-hungry India wants to increase nuclear power generation to support its strong economic growth... READ MORE

12th November, 2016 3231


The West accuses Russia of sending arms and troops to back the rebels in eastern Ukraine... READ MORE

5th September, 2014 2564

PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'


Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE

16th June, 2015 2539

IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS: INTENSIVE TALKS BEFORE KEY DEADLINE


They want to impose limits that would prevent Iran from producing enough fuel for a nuclear weapon within a year... READ MORE

30th March, 2015 2228

BELGIUM FEARS NUCLEAR PLANTS ARE VULNERABLE


Experts say the most remote of the potential nuclear-related risks is that Islamic State operatives would be able to obtain highly enriched uranium... READ MORE

26th March, 2016 2081

FIRE ON SHIP WITH RADIOACTIVE WASTE


WWF Scotland, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and SNP MSP Rob Gibson have raised concerns about radioactive waste being transported by sea... READ MORE

8th October, 2014 2075

'FUKUSHIMA CATASTROPHE ONGOING: LEAKAGE ON A DAILY BASIS'


One of the ones is the high radioactive waste storage pools that aren't even inside radiological containment... READ MORE

7th February, 2017 1761

HALF OF AMERICA'S NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS SEEN AS MONEY LOSERS


Nuclear power plants are getting paid 20 to 30 a megawatt-hour for their electricity, Nicholas Steckler, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in a report Wednesday... READ MORE

14th June, 2017 1745

AS PUTIN TALKS MORE MISSILES AND MIGHT COST TELLS ANOTHER STORY


The military budget jumped 32 percent last fall, only to be cut back by over 4 percent this year, according to Russian news reports... READ MORE

16th June, 2015 1575

SCRAPPING HINKLEY FOR RENEWABLE ALTERNATIVES WILL SAVE 'TENS OF BILLIONS'


A final investment decision by EDF on the nuclear power plant's expansion is expected in May... READ MORE

5th April, 2016 1499

FAILING NUCLEAR POWER IS GOOD FOR COAL, BAD FOR EARTH


This third option calls for a quadrupling of 2015 U.S. nuclear power production... READ MORE

6th August, 2017 1423

US SAYS SHIPPING URANIUM OUT OF IRAN IS STILL PART OF POSSIBLE NUCLEAR DEAL


Converting the material into fuel rods would make it extremely difficult for Iran to use the uranium to build a nuclear weapon... READ MORE

30th March, 2015 1405

RUSSIA SAYS WILL RETALIATE IF U.S. WEAPONS STATIONED ON ITS BORDERS


MOSCOW WARSAW A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia's border would be the most aggressive U.S... READ MORE

15th June, 2015 1402

IRAN HAS STOPPED DISMANTLING NUCLEAR CENTRIFUGES


Low-enriched uranium is used to fuel nuclear power plants, Iran's stated goal, but can also provide material for bombs if refined much further... READ MORE

10th November, 2015 1384

BUILDING OF NUCLEAR ARSENAL LEAVES A FEARSOME RADIOACTIVE LEGACY AT U.S. WASTE SITE


When workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington state suddenly found a hole in the ground on Tuesday morning, there was cause for concern... READ MORE

10th May, 2017 1353

NEW BLOW FOR HINKLEY POINT CONTRACTOR EDF AFTER FRENCH SAFETY CHECKS


Safety issues force many reactors offline with warnings of power cuts across France, higher energy prices and a rise in emissions... READ MORE

3rd December, 2016 1231

IRAN HANDS OVER STOCKPILE OF ENRICHED URANIUM TO RUSSIA


Iran is still disassembling centrifuges, which enrich uranium, and disabling a plutonium reactor, among other steps that are required under the nuclear agreement struck in July... READ MORE

29th December, 2015 1230

COULD COLOUR-CHANGING CATS WARN OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE


Plans for a new fleet of UK nuclear power plants are under way... READ MORE

8th January, 2017 1191

BOMB-GRADE URANIUM SHIPMENTS THROUGH ONTARIO PROMPT OUTCRY


Weapons-grade nuclear waste shipments to U.S. prompt outcry... READ MORE

5th September, 2016 1109

PRESIDENT POROSHENKO'S THREAT AFTER REBEL POLLS


More on This Story Pro-Russian rebels control broad swathes of eastern Ukraine and a fragile ceasefire with government forces could end at any time... READ MORE

4th November, 2014 1028

ROGUE SUN COULD WIPE OUT LIFE ON EARTH


Still, falling water levels in the storage pool caused anxiety that the fuel rods within could be exposed to the atmosphere... READ MORE

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