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Shelling cuts power to Ukraine nuclear site, Europe's biggest
Oct 08, 2022 (AFP)
"The resumption of shelling, hitting the plant's sole source of external power, is tremendously irresponsible," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) direct...
Simulating neutron behavior in nuclear reactors
Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)
As part of what the fourth-year nuclear science and engineering (NSE) doctoral student labels her "teenage rebellious phase," Trainer was quite convinced she wo...
Austria challenges EU 'green' nuclear label in court
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
The European Parliament in July approved a European Union proposal giving a sustainable finance label to investments in gas and nuclear power, sparking claims o...
IAEA's Grossi says 'obvious' Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant a Ukrainian facility
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
"For us it is obvious that since it is a Ukrainian facility, the ownership is Energoatom," Grossi said during a press conference, referring to the Ukrainian sta...
IAEA chief says on way to Kyiv for nuclear plant talks
Oct 05, 2022 (AFP)
Kyiv and Moscow have for months accused each other of shelling near the site, triggering fears of a nuclear catastrophe similar to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster i...
'No risk' at Ukraine atomic plant after chief expelled: IAEA
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
Russian forces had detained Ihor Murashov, the chief of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, for two days before releasing him on Monday. Moscow ...
France begins nationalisation of power giant
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
The state, which currently owns 84 percent of EDF, filed a takeover offer with the financial markets regulators, the first step in removing EDF's shares from th...
IAEA chief to travel to Kyiv and Moscow later this week: statement
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
Grossi will "continue his consultations" on setting up a nuclear safety and protection zone around Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the ...
Head of Russian-held Ukrainian nuclear plant freed: UN watchdog
Oct 03, 2022 (AFP)
"I welcome the release of Ihor Murashov, director general of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant; I have received confirmation that Mr Murashov has retur...
Ukraine condemns 'illegal detention' of nuclear plant chief
Oct 01, 2022 (AFP)
Zaporizhzhia -- Europe's largest nuclear energy facility -- has been at the centre of tensions in recent weeks after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of strik...
Europe's biggest nuclear reactor reaches full power
Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)
With power level of 1,600 megawatts, the plant located on the Nordic country's southwestern coast is also now the third most powerful electricity production fac...
Germany to keep nuclear plants on over French reactor woes
Sep 27, 2022 (AFP)
Amid an energy crisis sparked by a cut in Russian supplies, Berlin had already announced this month it would keep the plants on standby beyond the end of 2022 -...
UN nuclear watchdog urges Ukraine safety zone talks this week
Sep 26, 2022 (AFP)
Fighting around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant -- Europe's largest -- has raised fears of a nuclear disaster. Rafael Grossi, head of the Internation...
Hungary opposes EU sanctions on Russian nuclear sector
Sep 26, 2022 (AFP)
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a meeting in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that "some entities in the European Union a...
Belgium shuts down nuclear reactor despite energy doubts
Sep 23, 2022 (AFP)
Wedged between nuclear-powered France and gas-and-coal-dependent Germany, Belgium relies on about half of its electricity needs from an ageing stable of seven n...
IAEA, Western powers air growing worries on Ukraine nuclear plant
Sep 22, 2022 (AFP)
The strike by Russian "terrorists" damaged a power line at the facility, forcing a brief launch of emergency generators, Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom s...
Ukraine accuses Russia of again shelling Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
The strike damaged a power line at the plant causing the stoppage of several transformers of the number six reactor and forcing a brief launch of emergency gene...
Kyiv accuses Russia of strike on southern nuclear plant
Sep 19, 2022 (AFP)
The Kremlin meanwhile dismissed outright claims that their forces had been responsible for mass killings in recently captured areas of east Ukraine and said Ukr...
Ukraine plant reconnected to national grid; Kyiv accuses Russia of strikes
Sep 17, 2022 (AFP)
The Russian-occupied plant had been cut from the national grid since September due to shelling. "The restored 750 kilovolt (kV) line is now providing Europe's l...
France sends latest nuclear shipment to Japan
Sep 17, 2022 (AFP)
The fuel was due to leave the northern French port city of Cherbourg earlier this month but was delayed by the breakdown of loading equipment. Environmental act...
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