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Ukraine's nuclear deal with Canada's Cameco carries big risks, rewards

Ukraine's 12-year deal to buy enough uranium from Canadian miner Cameco Corp to power all of its nuclear reactors gives each side the right to change sales volumes with two years' notice, the Ukrainian state-owned utility Energoatom told Reuters.

Reuters

France seeks strategy as nuclear waste site risks saturation point

At a nuclear waste site in Normandy, robotic arms guided by technicians behind a protective shield manoeuvre a pipe that will turn radioactive chemicals into glass as France seeks to make safe the byproducts of its growing reliance on atomic power.

Reuters

French uranium mine leaves 20 million tonnes of radioactive waste in Niger

Niger’s northern town of Arlit has been left wallowing in 20 million tonnes of radioactive waste after a uranium mine run by French company Orano (formerly Areva) closed down. People living in the area are exposed to levels of radiation above the limits recommended by health experts.

Radio France Internationale

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America's new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem

U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it's Russian.

Reuters

France to send latest nuclear shipment to Japan

A shipment of reprocessed nuclear fuel arrived in the early hours of Wednesday at the French port city of Cherbourg, according to an AFP photographer, bound for Japan to be used in a power plant.

Radio France Internationale

Revealed: Hundreds of millions in UK taxpayers’ money handed to companies still operating in Russia

Exclusive: British government accused of indirectly helping to fund Putin’s war with £294m contracts

The Independent UK

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