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BEIJING—China’s top government body approved construction of the nation’s first domestically designed nuclear reactor as Beijing looks to ramp up infrastructure spending to combat slowing economic growth. The State Council issued a statement after its weekly meeting that it had approved the first demonstration unit of China’s Hualong-1 nuclear reactor. …
New India-France Agreement To Conform To `Make In India' Campaign After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to France, the controversial and trouble-ridden Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district moved a step forward.The Nuclear Power Corporation and a French firm, Areva, signed what is known as a pre-engineering …
Japan’s nuclear regulator is “very close” to finishing its review of two reactors in southern Japan that are slated to be the first to restart under new rules introduced since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, one of its commissioners told Reuters. Restarting the first reactors will end the country’s longest period …
Sri Lanka and Pakistan signed six agreements including one on atomic energy Monday, the two countries’ leaders said, as the strategically important island looks to build its first nuclear plant. Details of the agreement were not immediately available but it comes after Sri Lanka signed a pact with India in …
Power Sector in India has grown significantly since independence both in the installed electricity generating capacity and transmission & distribution (T&D;) system. The total power generating capacity of (utilities & non utilities) has increased from meagre 1362 MW in 1947 to 267 GW at the end of March, 2015.The per …
The farmers from villages around the proposed nuclear power plant in Mithivirdi in Bhavnagar on Monday opposed the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance given to the 6000 MW project and sought further clarity on it. "The expert appraisal committee (EAC) has given vague grounds for granting CRZ clearance to the …
Anti-nuclear activists on Thursday urged the governor of Shiga Prefecture to hold formal public hearings on the potential economic, social and environmental risks from two reactors in neighboring Fukui Prefecture that are moving toward restart. Representatives of the Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy, a group of scholars, engineers, lawyers, and …
AMMAN – Jordan signed an agreement with Russia on Tuesday worth $10 billion that sets the legal basis for building the kingdom’s first nuclear power plant with a total capacity of 2,000 megawatts. Jordan imports nearly 98 percent of its energy from oil products and crude and is struggling to …
Maha CM warns protesters Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is said to have warned the Shiv Sena leadership that the government would crack down on those holding protests against the Jaitapur plant. Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has come out against the Jaitapur nuclear project, it is not clear whether …
A new German government report is stoking fears that the country’s energy companies can’t shoulder the cost of a government plan to close the country’s nuclear-power plants. Germany aims to phase out its nine remaining reactors by 2022, faster than almost any country. But nobody knows exactly how much it …
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and South Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on the development of nuclear energy, Saudi state news agency SPA said, building on a deal signed in 2011. South Korean President Park Geun-hye met with Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Tuesday in Riyadh …
A German energy cooperative will take legal action against the European Commission for approving state aid for a 16 billion pound ($25 billion) nuclear power plant in Britain, it said on Wednesday, arguing it threatens to distort competition. The project, to be built by French utility EDF at Hinkley Point …
The expected cost of decommissioning and cleaning up Britain’s biggest and most hazardous nuclear plant, Sellafield, has increased by £5bn in a year, to £53bn, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has disclosed. In a progress report on the work, the National Audit Office criticised the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which oversees the …
China approved construction of its first nuclear power project since the Fukushima disaster in Japan almost four years ago brought the program to a standstill. China’s State Council gave the go-ahead on Feb. 17 to begin building two new reactors at China General Nuclear Power Group’s Hongyanhe plant in the …
Orgenergostroy, a Russia-based company, has won the tender to conduct engineering survey, monitor the environment, and develop project documents for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant site. The tender was floated by Atomenergoproekt, a sister concern of Russia’s state nuclear corporation – Rosatom – and an engineering company in December last …
Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water …
AHMEDABAD: Nearly six years after it was announced, the 6,000 MW nuclear power plant at Mithivirdi, a coastal hamlet some 40 km from Bhavnagar, is close to getting the crucial coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance. The project has been recommended for the clearance by the expert appraisal committee of the …
Japan's atomic regulator on Thursday cleared a second set of reactors for restart, another step towards returning the country to nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster of 2011 led to the shutdown of all units. Two reactors at the Takahama nuclear station operated by Kansai Electric Power, Japan's most nuclear-reliant …
A worker at Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died on Tuesday after falling into a water storage tank, the latest in a spate of industrial accidents at the site of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, the world’s worst since Chernobyl. The death is the second in Fukushima in …
Jan 21 (Reuters) - China's biggest reactor operator, China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), will put another five reactor units into operation this year, company executives said, adding that they remain confident in the sector's growth despite approval delays. The state-owned company, parent of Hong Kong Listed CGN Power, completed …
