Recent News Headlines : Nuclear Fission

ON A REMOTE ATOLL, A CONCRETE DOME HOLDS A LEAKING TOXIC TIMEBOMB


It's Manit Day on Enewetak Atoll, a celebration of Marshall Islands culture when the Pacific nation's troubled past seems a distant memory... READ MORE

28th November, 2017 54078

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

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

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

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

HARMLESS RADIOACTIVE CLOUD FLOATING OVER EUROPE 'CAME FROM RUSSIA'


An innocuous cloud of Radioactive pollution that passed over Europe in September and October 2017 likely came from a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan,... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 312

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

H-BOMBS V A-BOMBS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE & WHY DOES N. KOREA CRAVE THERMONUCLEAR?


The thermonuclear devices can produce far more powerful yield than the atomic bombs... READ MORE

22nd September, 2017 2415

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

DEAL REACHED ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM LIMITS ON FUEL WOULD LESSEN WITH TIME


Whether it portends a new relationship between the United States and Iran after decades of coups hostage-taking terrorism and sanctions remains a bigger question... READ MORE

15th July, 2015 15119

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

KIM JONG-UN IS 'BEGGING FOR WAR', SAYS US AMBASSADOR TO UN NIKKI HALEY


However, Pyongyang has conducted its sixth nuclear test just a few days ago, according to US intelligence officials... READ MORE

4th September, 2017 2404

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


European officials have suggested in recent days that an agreement is closer than the 50-50 assessment by Obama administration officials... READ MORE

28th February, 2015 2126

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

'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

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

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

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

THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW


The United States says sanctions would be removed in stages after Iran shows compliance with the terms of a final nuclear agreement... READ MORE

3rd April, 2015 1160

BOMB-GRADE URANIUM SHIPMENTS THROUGH ONTARIO PROMPT OUTCRY


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

5th September, 2016 1109

NO 2 NEGOTIATORS IN IRAN TALKS ARGUE PHYSICS BEHIND POLITICS


Mr. Moniz and Mr. Salehi have emerged as their countries' No... READ MORE

28th March, 2015 1024

U.S., IRAN REACH HISTORIC NUCLEAR FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT


U.s. iran reach historic nuclear framework agreement... READ MORE

2nd April, 2015 833

UK APPROVES CHINESE-BACKED NUCLEAR PLANT, SETS TIGHTER CONTROLS


The project offers an insight into how Britain could conduct relations with the world in a post-Brexit era... READ MORE

15th September, 2016 819

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WORKERS TO JOIN STRIKE


Workers at French nuclear power stations are due to join a strike over labour reforms that has already paralysed oil refineries and triggered fuel shortages... READ MORE

26th May, 2016 792

CHINA TO TAKE ONE-THIRD STAKE IN A?24BN HINKLEY NUCLEAR POWER STATION


China to take one-third stake in A?24bn Hinkley nuclear power station... READ MORE

20th October, 2015 727

GERMAN SCIENTISTS TO CONDUCT NUCLEAR FUSION EXPERIMENT


Scientists in Germany are poised to conduct a nuclear fusion experiment they hope will advance the quest for a clean and safe form of nuclear power... READ MORE

3rd February, 2016 689

IRAN ACCORDS COMPLEXITY SHOWS IMPACT OF BIPARTISAN LETTER


As unveiled Tuesday in Vienna the accord runs to 109 pages of fine print long lists and paragraph after paragraph of mind-numbing jargon... READ MORE

15th July, 2015 651

ARE MINI-NUCLEAR REACTORS THE ANSWER TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS?


Industry figures say the cost of electricity from the first SMRs should be about the same as large nuclear power plants, then get cheaper... READ MORE

24th November, 2015 650

IRAN STARTS TAKING NUCLEAR CENTRIFUGES OFFLINE


Centrifuges spin at supersonic speed to increase the ratio of the fissile isotope in uranium... READ MORE

2nd November, 2015 622


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