Nuclear Energy

Iraq’s Mass Group Holding has bought Romania’s Mintia thermal power plant (TPP) from Hunedoara Energy Complex (CEH) for 91.2 million euro ($91 million) in a public auction, and plans to invest over 1 billion euro in the plant in the coming years, the company’s judicial administrator Expert Insolventa said on …

Asia is giving the once-shunned nuclear power industry a second lease on life, thanks to the global energy crisis. Governments in Japan and South Korea are removing anti-nuclear policies, while China and India are looking to build more reactors to avoid future supply shortages and curb emissions. Even developing nations …

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi says Kyiv and Moscow agree that the UN watchdog’s personnel need to inspect the situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which has been caught in the crossfire of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops. Speaking to France 24 TV on August …

Iran’s nuclear chief says the country wields less than two percent of the global nuclear capacity, but is subject to 25 percent of all inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Mohammad Eslami the head of the Atom Energy Organization of Iran says the nuclear fuel cycle is an element …

China has the second largest number of nuclear power units in operation or under construction in the world, Tang Bo, an official with the National Nuclear Safety Administration, said on Tuesday. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 29th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE), Tang said that, as of …

French authorities have allowed five nuclear power plants in France to continue operations and discharge hot water in rivers even during another heatwave as the country looks to keep its electricity generation stable and conserve natural gas for the coming winter. Power giant EDF has warned that it might have …

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday, in support of the Iranian stance on lifting sanctions and nuclear talks, called for a change in the US stance and the return to the international agreement (JCPOA). According to The Russian News Agency TASS, talking to media, Sergei Lavrov, who was visiting …

Iran has completed installing three advanced IR-6 centrifuge cascades at its Natanz fuel enrichment plant (FEP), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report to member states on Wednesday. Iran has also informed the agency it plans to install an additional six IR-2m cascades at the FEP in a …

Director-General of the UN nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, said that Iran is rapidly making progress in its nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general who is in New York to participate in the 10th Conference to Review the Non-Proliferation Treaty said in a press conference on Tuesday evening …

Addressing the 10th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the United States, France and UK issued an anti-Iran statement regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The UK and France and the United States, who unilaterally withdrew from JCPOA, once again repeated their baseless claims against Iran’s …