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Ukraine says Russia plotting ‘a provocation’ at nuclear plant, offers no evidence
FILE - Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is seen from around twenty kilometers away in an area in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. A statement released Friday, May 26, 2023, by the intelligence directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry claimed that Russian forces would strike the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, and then report a radioactive leak in order to trigger an international probe that would pause the hostilities and give the Russian forces the respite they need to regroup ahead of the counteroffensive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
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South Korean experts visit Fukushima nuclear plant before treated water is released to sea
Yoo Guk-hee, Chairperson of South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Committee arrives at the foreign ministry in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, May 22, 2023. A South Korean team of government experts has begun a two-day tour at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday to have a first-hand look of a controversial Japanese plan to release into sea treated by slightly radioactive wastewater. (Kyodo News via AP)
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Ontario procures new energy storage projects and gas-fired generation
A worker walks past rows of power lines with his weed whacker in Mississauga, Ont., Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Demand for electricity in Ontario fell last year to levels rarely seen in decades amid shifts in usage patterns because of COVID-19 lockdowns and other anti-pandemic measures, new data show. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Joint venture including SNC-Lavalin and Aecon sign Bruce Power refurbishment deal
The SNC-Lavalin headquarters is seen in Montreal on February 12, 2019. A joint venture including SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. and Aecon Group Inc. has signed a 10-year agreement valued at $1.3 billion to extend the life of four of Bruce Power's Candu nuclear reactors to 2064. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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IAEA chief aims to present Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant deal to UN this month, diplomats say
FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict outside Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, March 29, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/
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UN nuclear power watchdog warns of dangers around Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine
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A political anti-nuclear ideology distracts from Canada’s climate mission
Campbell Clark
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Ukraine condemns Russian nuclear ‘blackmail’ on anniversary of Chernobyl disaster
Ukrainian Ecology Minister Ruslan Strilets and other officials attend a ceremony marking the 37th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chornobyl, Ukraine April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Russia’s dominance of nuclear-energy supply chain is cause for concern
Konrad Yakabuski
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Terrestrial Energy’s molten-salt reactor clears prelicensing review
Terrestrial Energy envisages a future where the company's Integral Molten Salt Reactor sits at the core of an energy complex, providing high-quality heat to drive electricity generation, hydrogen production, other industrial applications (such as ammonia production or other chemical production), and desalination plants, as well as supporting energy production from renewable sources such as wind turbines and solar panels
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Over and out: Germany switches off the last of its remaining nuclear plants
German Green politician Jürgen Trittin (2ndR) takes part in a protest action by Greenpeace in front of the capital's landmark Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on April 15, 2023, on the occasion of the shutting down of the last three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany. - The last three German nuclear power plants - Isar II, Emsland and Neckarwestheim II - will be finally shut down this Saturday. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hungary forces new energy deals with Russia amid Ukraine war
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 27, 2022 the logo of Russia's energy giant Gazprom is pictured at one of its petrol stations in Sofia, Bulgaria. - Russia has halted gas deliveries to Germany via a key pipeline for an indefinite period, after saying on September 2, 2022 that it had found problems in a key piece of equipment, a development that will worsen Europe's energy crisis. Russian gas giant Gazprom said Friday that the Nord Stream pipeline due to reopen at the weekend would remain shut until a turbine is repaired. In a statement, Gazprom indicated it had discovered "oil leaks" in a turbine during a planned three-day maintenance operation. Gazprom added that "until it is repaired... the transport of gas via Nord Stream is completely suspended". (Photo by Nikolay DOYCHINOV / AFP) (Photo by NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. and EU vow to combat any attempts to disrupt global energy markets
A worker adjusts the US and EU flags prior to the arrival of European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the EU-US Energy Council Ministerial meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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Moltex vows to help Canada recycle its nuclear waste. Critics say the byproducts would be even worse
Reactor number 3 at the Darlington nuclear facility in Courtice, Ont., on October 30, 2014. A subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation is partnering with U.S.-based BWX Technologies to help produce radioactive isotopes used to diagnose such conditions as cancer and heart disease. Ontario Power Generation says the Darlington nuclear plant will become the first large-scale commercial station in the world to produce molybdenum-99, needed to make the isotope technetium-99 for medical imaging. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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High activity spotted at North Korea nuclear complex after Kim’s bomb-fuel order: report
FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the 7th enlarged plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 1, 2023 in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS
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Nuclear dispute hangs over EU renewable energy talks
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Rival alliances in standoff over role of nuclear power in EU’s renewable energy goals
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 1, 2023.REUTERS/Johanna Geron
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U.N. nuclear watchdog says missing Libya uranium found
This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)
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OPG formalizes new agreement with two companies to standardize nuclear reactor design
Ontario Power Generation signage is seen facility at the Darlington Power Complex, in Bowmanville, Ont., on May 31, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
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Canada’s first small modular nuclear reactor clears regulatory milestone, but more work required
BOMANVILLE, ON - DECEMBER 7 - Jeffrey Lyash is the President and CEO of Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) and was photographed while on a tour of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station.