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Two workers were killed and another seriously injured at the Cattenom nuclear plant in France Thursday. A structure inside the reactor building of unit 4 fell on the employees of EDF contractors Presiozo and TNS Tractel shortly before 5 p.m. The reactor was offline at the time, as the plant had entered...

Paris-based conglomerate Veolia Environment announced an agreement Tuesday with a French government agency to remediate nuclear sites. Veolia had not counted nuclear waste cleanup among its subsidiaries' primary markets before 2011, when it partnered with Areva to help create a water treatment system...

A fire was discovered and quickly extinguished at France’s Fessenheim nuclear plant Wednesday. According to a release from EDF, unit 2 at the plant on the German border was working normally when a fire started at about 8:30 a.m. in a machine hall on the non-nuclear side of the plant. Response teams...

Areva’s CEO formally announced the company will bid on a three-unit nuclear plant construction project in Poland. Speaking before a legislative hearing, Luc Oursel said the company would make a joint bid with EDF, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. In competing for the project, the French firms promoting...

As the UK makes plans for new reactors at eight potential sites around the country, it pledged to increase cooperation with France on nuclear development and to foster construction deals among companies that include Areva, Rolls-Royce and EDF. The later company and its partner Centrica plan to build...

Reinforcing his support for the future of nuclear power, which has become a key issue in the May elections, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday that he would not shut down the 34- and 35-year-old reactors at the Fessenheim nuclear plant. Sarkozy and his opponent, Francois Hollande, disagree...

Scientists from the Belgian Nuclear Research Center, along with France’s National Research Council and Atomic Energy Commission, have developed a reactor that relies on a particle accelerator to sustain fission – a technology with the potential to safely eliminate some of the longest-lived...

In an interview published Friday, the French interior minister said security would be tightened at the country’s nuclear plants after Greenpeace activists jumped fences at the Nogent and Cruas plants last month. Claude Gueant told the Parisien newspaper anti-intrusion equipment would be enhanced...

As France’s nuclear regulatory body outlined requirements for substantial post-Fukushima plant upgrades, the head of state-controlled utility EDF said the country remains committed to its reactor fleet. In contrast to Germany or Switzerland, whose governments voted to phase out nuclear power following...

Rolls-Royce will help update instrumentation and control systems at 20 French reactors under a €250 million contract announced Monday. As part of the French reactor modernization program, the latest Rolls I&C technology will be installed in France's fleet of 1300-megawatt pressurized water...

EDF has awarded AREVA with a contract worth more than €600m to upgrade the monitoring and control systems which will improve the safety features of its 1300MW power plants (Paluel, Flamanville, Saint-Alban, Cattenom, Belleville, Nogent sur Seine, Golfech and Penly). EDF stated that the upgrades...

Protesters scaled a reactor building at the Nogent nuclear plant near Paris Monday, unfurling a banner before being arrested by national police. Early in the morning, nine Greenpeace activists entered the site, and plant owner EDF said they were immediately detected and monitored by security systems...

After a 126-hour delay, a train carrying 11 containers of nuclear waste vitrified in France returned to Germany Tuesday. An estimated 25,000 protestors tried to disrupt the train and clashed with nearly as many police, resulting in 133 injuries to police and 355 to protestors, according to police and...

In a speech Friday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he was committed to nuclear research and new plant construction, including a third reactor for the Penly plant in Normandy. While his opponents in the Socialist and Green parties recently resolved to decommission 24 of France’s 58 reactors...

In their post-Fukushima review of reactors’ emergency preparedness, French regulatory agencies said their country’s plants are safe but should be made more so by enhancing a number of safety systems. On Thursday, the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire gave...

As the ongoing debt crisis forces increasingly large reductions in government spending among European countries, the French government has made it clear that nuclear power will not be a target for cuts. Energy and industry minister Eric Besson said Wednesday that planning for new Areva EPRs at the Flamanville...

French regulators have confirmed that no radiation was released and no employees received excessive doses following an explosion at a nuclear waste treatment plant in France that killed one worker and injured four others Monday. France's Autorite de Surete Nucleaire (ASN) reported that the resulting...

On Monday French Prime Minister Francois Fillon implored the international community to create a “rapid intervention system” backed with equipment and expertise to react to severe nuclear accidents anywhere in the world. While speaking at a nuclear plant in France, he also called for an international...

The new Flamanville 3 reactor – the first in France using Areva’s EPR design – drew heightened public scrutiny this week after a satirical newspaper made public a letter from French regulators about the quality of construction at the site. Le Canard Enchaine quoted a letter regulators...

While neighboring Germany backs off its use of nuclear power, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that his country will invest 1 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in the technology in coming years. That funding includes a substantial portion for fourth-generation reactor development. He also promised...

At the request of Tokyo Electric Power Co., five additional experts from Areva will help engineers in Japan manage the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The Areva personnel, who will join a number of Areva staff dispatched to Japan earlier, are experts in radioactive effluent treatment...

Areva Group will spin off its uranium mining unit in a deal between Areva and Electricite de France (EDF) brokered by France’s nuclear policy council. The French government owns 80 percent of EDF and about 90 percent of Areva. In an effort to smooth over disputes between the two companies, the...

"These orders secured with EDF demonstrate EDF's ongoing confidence in Alstom’s flagship product and unbeatable technology in the field of nuclear” said Mr Philippe Joubert president of Alstom Power - Edited By Chris Reed - Alstom announced that they have received purchase...

- Edited By Tom Lamar - AREVA will develop and execute a training program for the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) under construction at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. AREVA will train 93 MFFF staff members at its MELOX and La Hague recycling facilities in France. The MFFF will be...

- Edited By Chris Reed - The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK•CEN and Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group (NRG) have partnered to establish the European Research Area of Experimental Reactors (ERAER) which stresses the importance...