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The world's biggest mining company BHP Billiton said Wednesday it intended to supply uranium to China for decades to come as the Asian superpower ramps up its nuclear energy programme. The chief executive of the Anglo-Australian miner, Marius Kloppers, said BHP Billiton was "very actively positioning" to take advantage of China's move towards greater use of nuclear energy.
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China and Jordan on Tuesday inked a deal on a power station expansion project, the first of its kind implemented by Chinese firms in Jordan's power generation sector and hailed by the Chinese ambassador in Jordan Gong Xiaosheng as a result of bilateral cooperation. The add-on cycle power plant contract, worth of multi-million U.S. dollars, was signed by China's Shandong Electric Power Construction Corp III Electric Power Construction Corp.(SEPCO III)and Samra Electric Power Generating Co. (SEPGCO).
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A big fire broke out last month in China`s biggest nuclear power plant in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, and though a radiation leak was suspected, Chinese media did not report the accident, the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao said yesterday. The daily said the fire occurred Aug. 26 after a transformer at the Tianwan nuclear plant exploded. Fourteen fire engines and 66 firefighters were dispatched to the scene, but it took more than five hours to put out the blaze.
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Chinese steelmaker Sinosteel has moved to buy into Australia's uranium industry, applying to develop a mine in the outback, a report said Wednesday. The Australian newspaper said Sinosteel PepinNini Curnamona Management had lodged a minerals claim with the South Australian government, a development which could lead the way to a formal mining lease application.
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THE Chinese have moved to buy into Australia's booming uranium industry, with steelmaker Sinosteel yesterday applying to develop a $160 million mine in the South Australian outback, posing a further challenge to foreign investment controls. The cashed-up Beijing-based consortium is eyeing opportunities in Australian resources, testing the Government's will to regulate Chinese investment in the sector.
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EDF the world's biggest single producer of nuclear energy, signed a formal agreement on Sunday to invest in and operate two new-generation reactors in the southern province of Guangdong.
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Westinghouse Electric Co. and its Chinese client broke ground today on the first of four nuclear power plants the company will build in the energy-hungry nation. Monroeville-based Westinghouse announced that, along with engineering partner The Shaw Group, of Louisiana, and the Shandong Nuclear Power Co., it began excavation one month earlier than planned at the plant site in Haiyang, Shandong province in northeastern China.
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China wants to have 100 of Westinghouse Electric Co.'s nuclear reactors in operation or under construction by 2020 -- more than double what was anticipated, according to the company's incoming CEO. Aris Candris, who will lead the Monroeville-based firm beginning Tuesday, said Chinese officials shared those plans with Westinghouse during a mid-May meeting.
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In the wake of the strongest and deadliest earthquake to ravage China in decades, the task of searching through wreckage for victims and property proved an onerous one. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake of 12 May devastated China´s mountainous Sichuan Province, killing an estimated 69,000 people and causing extensive property damage.
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Boxun News, a Chinese-language Web site based outside China, reported that an unnamed expert has claimed that there was a nuclear explosion near the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake, based on witness reports and the discovery of concrete rubble believed to have come from an underground military installation. The news of this nuclear explosion has raised questions about the cause of the earthquake.
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DUJIANGYAN, China (AFP) — China rushed Friday to remove radioactive and chemical materials sitting downstream from a "quake lake" that threatens to burst and send torrents of water into heavily populated areas. Nearly 100 unidentified radioactive sources were ordered to be removed by Friday evening from the path of the potential torrent of water, state press reported, citing the nation's environmental protection bureau.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has still to recover 15 hazardous radioactive sources and must focus on the fight to keep drinking water clean and contain chemical spills after May 12's massive earthquake, a senior official said on Friday. But Wu Xiaoqing, vice environment minister, insisted the situation was under control after experts and equipment were drafted in from nearby areas, and there had been no accidental releases of radiation or uncontrolled hazardous leaks.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has still to recover 15 hazardous radioactive sources and must focus on the fight to keep drinking water clean and contain chemical spills after May 12's massive earthquake, a senior official said on Friday.
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The UN's nuclear watchdog says it is training Chinese security officials to deal with a possible radiological attack during the Olympics Games. Nuclear experts have staged simulated exercises with Chinese officials, although the watchdog said it was unaware of any specific threat.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Top Russian energy officials may sign a cooperation agreement on nuclear power with China during President Dmitry Medvedev's visit this week, Russia's ambassador in Beijing said on Tuesday.
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Beijing (PTI): China has so far recovered 30 of the 32 radioactive sources which were buried under the debris during the devastating May 12 earthquake, Minister for Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian said. He said locations of two other radioactive sources had been detected and they would also be transported to "safe areas" soon.
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CHENGDU, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Nuclear facilities and radioactive sources for civilian purposes in southwest China's Sichuan Province have been confirmed safe and controllable after the May 12 quake, top environment official said here on Tuesday.
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China and leading Western experts are on the alert against possible radiation leaks from the Sichuan earthquake as the main centers for designing, making and storing nuclear arms lie in the shattered earthquake zone.
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American experts are monitoring nuclear facilities in China's earthquake zone, officials said Friday, after France's nuclear watchdog reported that some had suffered minor damage. The French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety said Chinese authorities "reacted well" to the quake and immediately shut down nuclear sites for inspection.
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PARIS: France's nuclear protection watchdog said Tuesday that it did not know yet whether there had been any damage to Chinese nuclear facilities near the region hit by the devastating earthquake in western China.
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