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The United States and Russia have helped move the final shipment of highly enriched uranium from a research reactor in the Czech Republic, representing the last of the material in the country that could be used in a nuclear weapon. Since 2004, a partnership under the Global Threat Reduction Initiative...

Russia's state-owned power reactor company Rosatom is taking bids for an experimental $166 million plant to recycle fuel from its VVER-1000 reactors. The pilot plant will be built at Rosatom's Federal State Unitary Enterprise Mining and Chemical Plant in Zheleznogorsk, about 150 miles southwest...

Polls indicated that 60 percent of voters in Bulgaria supported a referendum on construction of a new nuclear plant, but low turnout could threaten the measure's impact. Last March work stopped on the two-unit Belene nuclear plant after the ruling coalition in Bulgaria's Parliament decided to...

Bangladesh will start construction on its first nuclear power plant this fall, its prime minister announced Wednesday. The South Asian nation of 150 million reached a financing deal with Russia last week, paving the way for Rosatom to build two 1,000 megawatt reactors at Rooppur. At a press conference...

Russia signed a cooperative agreement on nuclear power with the United Arab Emirates Monday, as the middle eastern nation commits to building four new reactors by 2020 and continues to pique the interest of nuclear manufacturers around the world. In 2009, the UAE awarded a $20.4 billion contract to a...

Russia's Rosatom has come forward with the first $700 million in funding to build Turkey's first nuclear plant, the Turkish prime minister announced Monday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the financing following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Turkey's Sabah newspaper quoted...

Russia's military is preparing to retrieve two nuclear submarines resting at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, according to a Russian newspaper. Quoting an unnamed military source, Izvestia reported Thursday that the Defense Ministry will announce an international tender to recover the vessels, which...

Russia will become the 31st member country of the NEA effective January 1st 2013, according to a release today by the agency. The news comes after an official exchange of letters between OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey...

During a ceremony at World Energy Council's World Energy Leadership Summit today in Istanbul, Canadian nuclear firm Candu Energy and Turkish state power generator EUAS signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the construction of a new nuclear plant at the Black Sea port of Sinop. "Today's...

In spite of a reduction in nuclear power generation in Europe following the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, the International Atomic Energy Agency still expects use of the technology to expand dramatically in the next 20 years. Reuters reported Friday that a not-yet-published IAEA report obtained by the news...

Experts from the agency that oversees the safety of U.S. military nuclear programs recently met with Vietnamese regulators to help them improve accident preparedness as the country makes plans for four new reactors. The National Nuclear Security Administration and the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and...

Russia dedicated a new 1,000 megawatt VVER-1000/320 pressurized water reactor at the Kalinin nuclear plant north of Moscow Monday. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the event, saying that it marked the beginning of a “nuclear renaissance.” Construction on Kalinin unit 4 began...

As part of a wider bid by the countries' leaders to encourage more business cooperation between the UK and Russia, Rolls-Royce and Rosatom announced Monday that they will ramp up their collaborative efforts in the civilian nuclear field. In Moscow, where he met with his counterpart Dmitry Medvedev...

Ceremonies honoring the Chernobyl nuclear workers (Liquidators as they were called) are taking place in Ukraine today to mark the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident. The main service was held in the central square of Slavutich, a small city 40km from the site. The service was at held at 1.23am...

During a briefing on Japan’s reactor crisis Monday, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano called for a high-level conference on nuclear safety. Before summer, Amano said, international leaders should meet to assess the accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...

- Edited By Tom Lamar – Nuclear power plant construction company, Toshiba Corporation, and a unit of OAO Atomenergoprom, Russia’s state-owned atomic power company, may form a venture to sell enriched uranium this year. Toshiba and OAO Techsnabexport may form the venture in Japan as...

- Edited By Chris Reed - Baltic Information Systems (BIS), a Lithuanian company founded to provide safety-related IT systems for nuclear power plants, has developed a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) product called BISMARC that relies on the eXtremeDB® In-Memory Database System...

- By Greg Webb, IAEA More than 8 000 highly radioactive nuclear fuel elements arrived safely on 22 December at a secure Russian facility as part of an IAEA-coordinated effort to transfer the material from a Serbian nuclear research reactor. The fuel repatriation mission used trucks, trains and...

- Edited By Tom Lamar - According to news reports, Russian nuclear projects firm Atomstroyexport is in advanced stages of discussions to set up a joint venture with Larsen & Toubro (L&T) to establish a production unit in India for manufacturing equipment for nuclear power projects. A pact...

- Edited By Tom Lamar - Russia may boost nuclear power cooperation with the United States to meet the need for medium-energy reactors in developing countries, authorities from the state-controlled Rosatom nuclear corporation said. Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko held talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary...

- Edited By Chris Reed - Fortum Corporation, the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM and NEK (the national Bulgarian utility Natsionalna Elektricheska Kompania EAD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the development of a new nuclear power plant in Belene, Bulgaria...

-Edited By Tom Lamar - Fortum Corporation and the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of nuclear power. The development of nuclear power markets offers a good opportunity to extend the long-standing cooperation between...

- Edited By Tom Lamar - According to news reports, Russia has offered to partner with India in exploration and exploitation of uranium resources within its territory in a bid to ease shortage of fuel for India's nuclear power plants. State corporation Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said Moscow...

This news report shows Russian President Medvedev at a summit in Hanoi, Vietnam for the announcement. Also shows Vietnam’s selected site for their new nuclear power plant. (Please visit the site to view this video)

- Edited By Chris Reed - Russia's President Medvedev has announced that his country will build Venezuela's first nuclear plant. In August of this year, Russia finished work on the first nuclear power plant in Iran. Both Venezuela and Iran have plenty of other power sources, however, so the...