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Airbus H160 Assembly Line - Marignane

A view of the Airbus H160 assembly line on January 14, 2022 in Marignane, south of France. This helicopter is certified to operate on 50 % Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)/biomass fuel. With its low fuel consumption, optimised maintenance costs and faster cruise speed, the H160 paves the way for economic competitiveness compared with other helicopters in its class. Fuel consumption is reduced by 15 % compared with the previous engine class for the same operations, while maintenance costs are reduced by almost 15% for the “airframe by the hour” and “service by the hour” options. Designed as a multi-role helicopter capable of carrying out a wide range of missions – such as offshore transport, emergency medical services, private and business aviation, as well as public services – the highly flexible H160 incorporates the latest Airbus innovations. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Activists protest prior General Assembly of Axa - Paris AJ

Activists from ANV-COP21 (Action non-violente COP21) as they protest in the street prior to the general assembly of French insurance company AXA in Paris on April 24, 2025. ANV-COP21 accuses French insurance company AXA of involvement in several fossil fuel projects and denounces, on their website, "AXA's culpability in climate change". Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Activists protest prior General Assembly of Axa - Paris AJ

Activists from ANV-COP21 (Action non-violente COP21) as they protest in the street prior to the general assembly of French insurance company AXA in Paris on April 24, 2025. ANV-COP21 accuses French insurance company AXA of involvement in several fossil fuel projects and denounces, on their website, "AXA's culpability in climate change". Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Activists protest prior General Assembly of Axa - Paris AJ

Activists from ANV-COP21 (Action non-violente COP21) as they protest in the street prior to the general assembly of French insurance company AXA in Paris on April 24, 2025. ANV-COP21 accuses French insurance company AXA of involvement in several fossil fuel projects and denounces, on their website, "AXA's culpability in climate change". Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Activists protest prior General Assembly of Axa - Paris AJ

Activists from ANV-COP21 (Action non-violente COP21) as they protest in the street prior to the general assembly of French insurance company AXA in Paris on April 24, 2025. ANV-COP21 accuses French insurance company AXA of involvement in several fossil fuel projects and denounces, on their website, "AXA's culpability in climate change". Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Activists protest prior General Assembly of Axa - Paris AJ

Activists from ANV-COP21 (Action non-violente COP21) as they protest in the street prior to the general assembly of French insurance company AXA in Paris on April 24, 2025. ANV-COP21 accuses French insurance company AXA of involvement in several fossil fuel projects and denounces, on their website, "AXA's culpability in climate change". Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant

NETISHYN, UKRAINE - AUGUST 31, 2023 - A spent fuel assembly is on show during a press tour to the KhNPP to put one of the WWER-1000 rectors online following repairs and fuel reloading, Netishyn, Khmelnytskyi Region, western Ukraine.

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Japan town OKs survey for interim spent nuclear fuel facility

Tetsuo Nishi, mayor of Kaminoseki town in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi, speaks at an extraordinary municipal assembly session in the town on Aug. 18, 2023. The mayor gave the greenlight for a geological survey by two major utilities companies, in a step toward the building of an intermediate facility to temporarily keep spent nuclear fuel.

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Japan town OKs survey for interim spent nuclear fuel facility

Tetsuo Nishi, mayor of Kaminoseki town in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi, speaks at an extraordinary municipal assembly session in the town on Aug. 18, 2023. The mayor gave the greenlight for a geological survey by two major utilities companies, in a step toward the building of an intermediate facility to temporarily keep spent nuclear fuel.

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Fuel assembly removed from Fukushima Daiichi No. 4 reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 18, 2012, shows the wrecked building housing the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed the same day an unused nuclear fuel assembly from a spent fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor to check the extent of damage to the stored fuel ahead of the start of full removal work planned for next year.

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Fuel assembly removed from Fukushima Daiichi No. 4 reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 18, 2012, shows the wrecked building housing the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed the same day an unused nuclear fuel assembly from a spent fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor to check the extent of damage to the stored fuel ahead of the start of full removal work planned for next year.

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Myanmar foreign minister gives speech at U.N. General Assembly

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar Foreign Affairs Minister U Nyan Win delivers a speech at a U.N. General Assembly meeting on Oct. 1. He said the recent demonstrations in Yangon were the result of political opportunists seeking to turn small initial protests against rising fuel prices into ''a political showdown aided by some powerful countries.''

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Genkai town assembly OKs Kyushu Electric's MOX reactor plan

SAGA, Japan - Tsukasa Terada, mayor of the northern Kyushu town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, speaks at a press conference after the town assembly adopted a statement Feb. 17 calling on the municipal government to accept Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s offer to begin electric generation using uranium-and-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, or MOX, at the No. 3 reactor of its Genkai nuclear power plant.

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Toyota, Peugeot Citroen to release 3 compact cars in Europe

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. said on Dec. 1 that it will release three fuel-efficient small passenger cars (in photo) in the European market in 2005 as a result of a joint development project with French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen. Developed on a common platform, the three new models, named Peugeot 107, Toyota Aygo and Citroen C1, will begin rolling off the assembly line at the two carmakers' joint plant in Koli, the Czech Republic, in 2005, Toyota said.

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Fukushima pref. panel OKs raise in nuclear fuel tax

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - The Fukushima prefectural assembly's committee on general affairs approves a proposal to raise the local tax on nuclear fuel July 4, paving the way for increasing the tax rate to 13.5% from the current 7%. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) opposes the tax hike as it is the sole payer of the local tax. TEPCO runs 10 nuclear reactors at its two power plants in the prefecture.

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Plebiscite on MOX fuel use at Niigata plant planned in May

NIIGATA, Japan - Hiroo Shinada, mayor of the village of Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, announced April 24 his village will hold a plebiscite May 27 on a plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. The announcement followed the Kariwa village assembly's passage of an ordinance to hold such a plebiscite.

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French PM to requisition workers as strikes at refineries continue

STORY: French PM to requisition workers as strikes at refineries continue DATELINE: Oct. 13, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:10 LOCATION: LYON, France CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of gas station running out of fuel 2. various of queue in front of a gas station 3. various of vehicles traveling on a highway STORYLINE: French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday ordered local authorities to requisition workers needed to ensure petrol supply to service stations across the country as France struggles with strikes at oil refineries operated by TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil. "A salary disagreement does not justify blocking the country," Borne told the National Assembly. "To refuse to discuss is to make the French the victims of an absence of dialogue." According to Borne, 30 percent of the country's gas stations have already run out of at least one type of fuel, with the Greater Paris region one of the worst affected. Over the weekend, TotalEnergies and the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) agreed

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-SCIENTISTS-YOUNG GENERATION (CN)

(220504) -- CHENGDU, May 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on April 26, 2022 shows members of a R&D team in Nuclear Power Institute of China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Fuel assemblies are the core of nuclear reactor. Engineers and researchers of Nuclear Power Institute of China have worked for years to develop China's own fuel assembly of commercial nuclear power plants, which was previously dominated by foreign technology. On Oct. 27, 2019, the first batch of 20 groups of CF3 fuel assemblies with independent intellectual property rights were loaded into nuclear power plant. The achievement marked that China has mastered the technology of high-performance nuclear fuel assembly and become one of the few countries owning independent intellectual property rights in nuclear fuel assembly design and manufacturing technology. It is worth mentioning that over 70 percent members of the R&D team are young people. On April 29, 2022, the drawings of the new generation CF4 simulation fuel assemb

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-SCIENTISTS-YOUNG GENERATION (CN)

(220504) -- CHENGDU, May 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Li Quan, a member of a R&D team, shows part of the fuel assemblies his team developed, in Nuclear Power Institute of China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 26, 2022. Fuel assemblies are the core of nuclear reactor. Engineers and researchers of Nuclear Power Institute of China have worked for years to develop China's own fuel assembly of commercial nuclear power plants, which was previously dominated by foreign technology. On Oct. 27, 2019, the first batch of 20 groups of CF3 fuel assemblies with independent intellectual property rights were loaded into nuclear power plant. The achievement marked that China has mastered the technology of high-performance nuclear fuel assembly and become one of the few countries owning independent intellectual property rights in nuclear fuel assembly design and manufacturing technology. It is worth mentioning that over 70 percent members of the R&D team are young people. On April 29, 2022, the drawings of

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-SCIENTISTS-YOUNG GENERATION (CN)

(220504) -- CHENGDU, May 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on April 25, 2022 shows CF fuel assemblies at Nuclear Power Institute of China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Fuel assemblies are the core of nuclear reactor. Engineers and researchers of Nuclear Power Institute of China have worked for years to develop China's own fuel assembly of commercial nuclear power plants, which was previously dominated by foreign technology. On Oct. 27, 2019, the first batch of 20 groups of CF3 fuel assemblies with independent intellectual property rights were loaded into nuclear power plant. The achievement marked that China has mastered the technology of high-performance nuclear fuel assembly and become one of the few countries owning independent intellectual property rights in nuclear fuel assembly design and manufacturing technology. It is worth mentioning that over 70 percent members of the R&D team are young people. On April 29, 2022, the drawings of the new generation CF4 simulation fuel assembly

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-SCIENTISTS-YOUNG GENERATION (CN)

(220504) -- CHENGDU, May 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Members of a R&D team work in a laboratory of Nuclear Power Institute of China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 28, 2022. Fuel assemblies are the core of nuclear reactor. Engineers and researchers of Nuclear Power Institute of China have worked for years to develop China's own fuel assembly of commercial nuclear power plants, which was previously dominated by foreign technology. On Oct. 27, 2019, the first batch of 20 groups of CF3 fuel assemblies with independent intellectual property rights were loaded into nuclear power plant. The achievement marked that China has mastered the technology of high-performance nuclear fuel assembly and become one of the few countries owning independent intellectual property rights in nuclear fuel assembly design and manufacturing technology. It is worth mentioning that over 70 percent members of the R&D team are young people. On April 29, 2022, the drawings of the new generation CF4 simulation fuel assem

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-SCIENTISTS-YOUNG GENERATION (CN)

(220504) -- CHENGDU, May 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Members of a R&D team work in a laboratory of Nuclear Power Institute of China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 28, 2022. Fuel assemblies are the core of nuclear reactor. Engineers and researchers of Nuclear Power Institute of China have worked for years to develop China's own fuel assembly of commercial nuclear power plants, which was previously dominated by foreign technology. On Oct. 27, 2019, the first batch of 20 groups of CF3 fuel assemblies with independent intellectual property rights were loaded into nuclear power plant. The achievement marked that China has mastered the technology of high-performance nuclear fuel assembly and become one of the few countries owning independent intellectual property rights in nuclear fuel assembly design and manufacturing technology. It is worth mentioning that over 70 percent members of the R&D team are young people. On April 29, 2022, the drawings of the new generation CF4 simulation fuel assem

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-SCIENTISTS-YOUNG GENERATION (CN)

(220504) -- CHENGDU, May 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Members of a R&D team work in a laboratory of Nuclear Power Institute of China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 28, 2022. Fuel assemblies are the core of nuclear reactor. Engineers and researchers of Nuclear Power Institute of China have worked for years to develop China's own fuel assembly of commercial nuclear power plants, which was previously dominated by foreign technology. On Oct. 27, 2019, the first batch of 20 groups of CF3 fuel assemblies with independent intellectual property rights were loaded into nuclear power plant. The achievement marked that China has mastered the technology of high-performance nuclear fuel assembly and become one of the few countries owning independent intellectual property rights in nuclear fuel assembly design and manufacturing technology. It is worth mentioning that over 70 percent members of the R&D team are young people. On April 29, 2022, the drawings of the new generation CF4 simulation fuel assem

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Toyota, Peugeot Citroen to release 3 compact cars in Europe

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. said on Dec. 1 that it will release three fuel-efficient small passenger cars (in photo) in the European market in 2005 as a result of a joint development project with French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen. Developed on a common platform, the three new models, named Peugeot 107, Toyota Aygo and Citroen C1, will begin rolling off the assembly line at the two carmakers' joint plant in Koli, the Czech Republic, in 2005, Toyota said. (Kyodo)

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Genkai town assembly OKs Kyushu Electric's MOX reactor plan

SAGA, Japan - Tsukasa Terada, mayor of the northern Kyushu town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, speaks at a press conference after the town assembly adopted a statement Feb. 17 calling on the municipal government to accept Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s offer to begin electric generation using uranium-and-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, or MOX, at the No. 3 reactor of its Genkai nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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Myanmar foreign minister gives speech at U.N. General Assembly

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar Foreign Affairs Minister U Nyan Win delivers a speech at a U.N. General Assembly meeting on Oct. 1. He said the recent demonstrations in Yangon were the result of political opportunists seeking to turn small initial protests against rising fuel prices into ''a political showdown aided by some powerful countries.'' (Kyodo)

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Fukushima pref. panel OKs raise in nuclear fuel tax

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - The Fukushima prefectural assembly's committee on general affairs approves a proposal to raise the local tax on nuclear fuel July 4, paving the way for increasing the tax rate to 13.5% from the current 7%. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) opposes the tax hike as it is the sole payer of the local tax. TEPCO runs 10 nuclear reactors at its two power plants in the prefecture.

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Plebiscite on MOX fuel use at Niigata plant planned in May

NIIGATA, Japan - Hiroo Shinada, mayor of the village of Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, announced April 24 his village will hold a plebiscite May 27 on a plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. The announcement followed the Kariwa village assembly's passage of an ordinance to hold such a plebiscite.