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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iran President Visits Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, visiting The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant different parts of the nuclear power plant which is being developed within three phases. The two operations Pezeshkian ordered to launch are related to phases 2 and 3, which include the installation of key equipment at the reactor building of the second unit to increase safety. Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Lebanon: Israel Carries Out Airstrikes Near Sidon

Israel carried out 2 airstrikes targeting alleged Hezbollah weapons warehouse locations near Sidon on Monday, February 19. Lebanese state-run National News Agency reported that "Israeli warplanes carried out strikes on the town of Ghaziyeh". The Israeli army said that the attack was in "response to to the explosion of an enemy drone, the wreckage of which was found near the Tiberias area this afternoon." This live footage shows smoke billowing as seen from Sidon.

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New nuclear power unit starts operation in China's Guangxi

STORY: New nuclear power unit starts operation in China's Guangxi DATELINE: March 26, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:00 LOCATION: NANNING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of time-lapse views of a new nuclear power unit under construction STORYLINE: A new nuclear power unit using Hualong One, a domestically designed third-generation nuclear reactor, was put into operation in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Saturday, paving the way for commercial operation. With the operation of the No.3 unit of the Fangchenggang nuclear power station in the port city of Fangchenggang, the China General Nuclear Power Corporation currently has 27 nuclear power units in operation, with an installed capacity of more than 30.56 million kW. The Fangchenggang nuclear power project will have six nuclear power units in total. The first two units became operational in 2016, having generated over 100 billion kWh of electricity. Each of the second two units, using the Hualong One technology, ca

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Yongbyon reactor included in disablement plan: N. Korea envoy

SHENYANG, China - Ri Gun, North Korea's representative at talks on its nuclear abandonment, speaks to reporters at a hotel in the northeastern Chinese city Shenyang on Saturday, a day after attending a two-day meeting of a working group under the six-party process on North Korea's denuclearization. He says a key nuclear reactor in Yongbyon will be one of the facilities that will be disabled as part of the second stage of the country's denuclearization.

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TEPCO removes another panel from reactor cover

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 10, 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 nuclear reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan, after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a second panel from the roof of the cover shrouding the building. The removal, conducted on a trial basis, is a first step toward demolishing the cover and eventually removing spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pool in the building.

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TEPCO removes another panel from reactor cover

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 10, 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 nuclear reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan, after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a second panel from the roof of the cover shrouding the building. The removal, conducted on a trial basis, is a first step toward demolishing the cover and eventually removing spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pool in the building.

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TEPCO removes another panel from reactor cover

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 10, 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 nuclear reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan, after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a second panel from the roof of the cover shrouding the building. The removal, conducted on a trial basis, is a first step toward demolishing the cover and eventually removing spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pool in the building.

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Japan to be without nuclear power

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo taken in July 2013 shows the No. 4 reactor building at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor, Japan's sole operating reactor, is set to be taken offline for routine checks on Sept. 15, leaving the country without nuclear power supply for the second time since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi complex disaster.

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Japan to be without nuclear power

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo taken in July 2013 shows the No. 4 (L) and No. 3 reactor buildings at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor, Japan's sole operating reactor, is set to be taken offline for routine checks on Sept. 15, leaving the country without nuclear power supply for the second time since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi complex disaster.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows workers at the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows wrecked vehicles, swept away by a tsunami and left as debris on the sea side of the No. 4 reactor turbine building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows the No. 4 reactor building (L) and a facility (R) under construction to remove spent fuel from the pool at the reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - Takeshi Takahashi, chief of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, explains the work to remove spent fuel from the pool of the No. 4 reactor building at the plant on March 1, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

NARAHA, Japan - Photo shows the base of a crane facility (R) under construction at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station that will be used to remove spent fuel from the pool of the No. 4 reactor building (L) in Fukushima Prefecture on Jan. 28, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed the plant to reporters ahead of the second anniversary of a nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

NARAHA, Japan - Workers build a crane facility at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station that will be used to remove spent fuel from the pool of the No. 4 reactor building in Fukushima Prefecture on Jan. 28, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed the plant to reporters ahead of the second anniversary of a nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Pool photo)

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Oi plant's No. 4 reactor starts capacity operation

OBAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor building (right) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on July 25, 2012. The reactor, which is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, started full-capacity power generation early on July 25 to ease electricity shortages in western Japan. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, the first to resume operation, is seen to the left.

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Oi plant's No. 4 reactor starts capacity operation

OBAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on July 25, 2012. The reactor, which is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, started full-capacity power generation early on July 25 to ease electricity shortages in western Japan. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, the first to resume operation, is seen in the back.

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Oi No. 4 reactor begins generating power

OI, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor (L) at the Oi nuclear power plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Fukui Prefecture on July 21, 2012. The No. 4 reactor started generating and transmitting electricity later in the day. The reactor is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (R).

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor (front) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (back) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor (L) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online, after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (R) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Photo taken July 18, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (L) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was restarted later, around 9 p.m., the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, can be seen to the right.

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Workers in the main control room reactivate the No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, around 9 p.m. on July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor became the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Security guards stand near the entrance to Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, at 7:52 p.m. on July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor at the plant was reactivated around 9 p.m. the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 9, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was reactivated around 9 p.m. on July 18, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, stands just behind.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

OI, Japan - Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Seishu Makino (front) attends a press conference in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the afternoon of July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town was reactivated around 9 p.m. the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for regular checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011.

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Reporters allowed to visit Fukushima complex

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2012, shows (from R) the Nos. 4, 3, 2 reactor buildings of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. Reporters were allowed to enter the premises of the power plant the same day for the second time since the accident happened in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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Reporters allowed to visit Fukushima complex

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2012, shows workers (R top) at the No. 4 reactor building of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The lid of the reactor container can be seen in the left bottom. Reporters were allowed to enter the premises of the power plant the same day for the second time since the accident happened in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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Reporters allowed to visit Fukushima complex

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2012, shows workers (R bottom) at the No. 4 reactor building of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. Behind them is a fuel handling machine. Reporters were allowed to enter the premises of the power plant the same day for the second time since the accident happened in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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Reporters allowed to visit Fukushima complex

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2012, shows workers (R top) at the No. 4 reactor building of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The lid of the reactor container can be seen in the left center. Reporters were allowed to enter the premises of the power plant the same day for the second time since the accident happened in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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Japan-U.S. nuclear security working group

MITO, Japan - Members of the Japan-U.S. nuclear security working group receive a prebriefing in the town of Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Feb. 6, 2012, ahead of their visit to the Japan Atomic Energy Agency's facilities in the prefecture, including the experimental fast-breeder reactor Joyo and the Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security. The second nuclear security summit is scheduled to be held in March 2012 in Seoul.

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'Pluthermal' power generation begins at Japan plant

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Seen here is the No. 3 reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture in western Japan on March 4, 2010. The nuclear plant became Japan's second ''pluthermal'' power-generating facility, using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel.

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Court orders shutdown of Japan's 2nd-largest nuke reactor

KANAZAWA, Japan - Local people, who filed a lawsuit demanding Hokuriku Electric Power Co. stop operating the second reactor at its Shikata nuclear power plant in Ishikawa Prefecture, celebrate in front of the Kanazawa District Court on March 24.

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TEPCO reactivates 2nd reactor in Niigata

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Scandal-hit Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on June 18 reactivated the No. 7 reactor in the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture. The reactor is the second of 17 nuclear reactors shut down following revelations last year that it falsified safety reports.

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China's Hualong One reactor demonstration project fully operational

STORY: China's Hualong One reactor demonstration project fully operational DATELINE: March 26, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:59 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of China's Hualong One reactor demonstration project 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU JINLONG, Deputy General Manager, China National Nuclear Corporation STORYLINE: China's Hualong One demonstration project, a domestically designed third-generation nuclear reactor, has been completed and put into commercial operation, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said on Friday. The No. 6 unit, the country's second nuclear power unit using Hualong One, is located in the city of Fuqing in east China's Fujian Province, and has met commercial operation conditions. The first Hualong One unit, the No. 5 unit, entered commercial operation in January 2021. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU JINLONG, Deputy General Manager, China National Nuclear Corporation "The project's two nuclear power units are expected to generate nearly 20 billion kil

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Takahama plant starts generating and sending electricity

Operators of the No. 3 reactor of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama plant on the Sea of Japan coast take procedures in the main control room to start generating and sending electricity on Feb. 1, 2016. The reactor, whose plant became the second nuclear complex to restart under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, is expected to be operated at full capacity on Feb. 4. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takahama plant starts generating and sending electricity

Operators of the No. 3 reactor of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama plant on the Sea of Japan coast take procedures in the main control room to start generating and sending electricity on Feb. 1, 2016. The reactor, whose plant became the second nuclear complex to restart under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, is expected to be operated at full capacity on Feb. 4. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan nuclear reactor reaches criticality

Photo taken Jan. 30, 2016, shows the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant, which reached criticality, or a state of sustained nuclear chain reaction, in Fukui Prefecture. A day earlier, Takahama became the second nuclear complex to restart under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan nuclear reactor reaches criticality

Photo taken Jan. 30, 2016, shows the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant, which reached criticality, or a state of sustained nuclear chain reaction, in Fukui Prefecture. A day earlier, Takahama became the second nuclear complex to restart under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts 2nd nuclear plant under tighter post-Fukushima rules

People gather in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2016, to oppose nuclear power generation. A reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant in western Japan resumed operation the same day, making it the second complex to restart and the first running on uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo