President Sarkozy has helped sell French nuclear expertise worldwide. But now a report says the new EPR could be unsafe. The safety authorities of France, the UK and Finland are demanding changes be made to the software of the reactor.
President Sarkozy has helped sell French nuclear expertise worldwide. But now a report says the new EPR could be unsafe. The safety authorities of France, the UK and Finland are demanding changes be made to the software of the reactor.
Nuclear safety watchdogs in France, the United Kingdom and Finland have requested "improvements" to safety systems in the design of the third-generation EPR reactors being built by French nuclear giant Areva.
Iran is expected Thursday to deliver its response to a UN-brokered proposal regarding the supply of fuel for a nuclear research reactor in Tehran. The deal is seen as crucial to resolving the stand-off over the Islamic Republic's atomic programme.
To convert the Iranian uranium in France and Russia, this is the aim of the talks taking place this week in Vienna. With this suggestion, western countries hope to prevent Iran to get the nuclear weapon. Is it an achievable goal?
Several kilos of plutonium have been discovered at an Areva nuclear plant in Cadarache, in the south of France. Environmentalists have long complained that the nuclear industry, which fulfills 75 percent of France's energy needs, is shrouded in secre
French magistrates charged a nuclear scientist from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research with membership of a terrorist group on Monday, suspecting him of having links with al Qaeda.
India and the United States on Monday agreed to a defence deal and two US nuclear power station sites, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pictured with Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, on a five-day visit to India.
