China plans massive nuclear programme
China is one of the fastest growing nuclear energy markets in the world. Only one per cent of China’s energy needs presently comes from nuclear power and over the next fifteen years China will s...
War of words over waste
The broken promise has led to disagreements between the government and the utilities companies that operate nuclear power plants. Underlying the conflict is the fact that the DOE has charged electrici...
Nuclear firms prepare for merger
The merger between Magnox Electric and British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) should be complete within a year, creating a new group with a combined turnover of £1.8 bn and almost 18 000 staff, inc...
Critical issues at the original nuclear lab
First published November 1997 in Physics World As the sixth director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, John Browne faces broad challenges at a critical time in the laboratory’s history. Aft...
France opens new research facility – and closes two
France's newest nuclear physics facility - the SPIRAL facility for radioactive nuclear beams in Caen - has accelerated its first beams
China and Russia sign nuclear deal
China and Russia last week signed an $3 billion agreement to build a nuclear power plant in eastern China
