&#36;505 million deal for Chernobyl shelter
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Ukrainian officials signed a $505 million contract with a French-led consortium Monday for construction of a new shelter for the Chernobyl reactor, the site of the word's worst nuclear accident.
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Nations representing half the world's population signed a long-awaited, $12.8 billion pact Tuesday for a nuclear fusion reactor that could revolutionize global energy use for future generations.Comment
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The Russian government is setting a starting price of &#36;1.9 billion for next month's auction of its 7.59 percent stake in the Lukoil oil company. If it gets that price, it would be the most expensive deal in the history of Russian privatization.
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The local arm of defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $45-million contract with the US government to complete a prototype designed to protect commercial airplanes from ground-based shoulder-fired missiles.
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Pittsburgh Pirates reliever Salomon Torres' two-year contract will pay him &#36;2.6 million, including a &#36;200,000 signing bonus.
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A government laboratory and a private company announced a &#36;2.6 million project Monday to develop hydrogen in a nuclear reactor using a process with the potential to one day trim the country's reliance on fossil fuels.
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The manufacturer and dealer of the rifle used in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings agreed Wednesday to pay &#36;2.5 million in a settlement with victims and victims' families.
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Business: 19 September 2004, Sunday. Bulgarian energy market will not be the same now after the first direct deal for energy supply was negotiated and signed between the state-owned Kozloduy nuclear plant and ...
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In an age of al-Qaida, sleeper cells and the threat of nuclear terrorism, Huntsville is dusting off its Cold War manual to create the nation's most ambitious fallout-shelter plan, featuring an abandoned mine big enough for 20,000 people to take cover underground.
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U.S. nuclear power reactors will be able to obtain more supplies of Russian enriched uranium for fuel, under a trade deal signed by the two countries late on Friday.
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French state-run company Areva  has unexpectedly agreed a $5 billion deal to build two nuclear power plants in China weeks after a U.S. rival appeared to have won a competition that dragged on for more than two years.
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Officials at the site of the world's worst nuclear accident announced plans Monday to sell scrap and other equipment from the Chernobyl nuclear plant, saying the government was not giving it enough money to continue operating.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland   Security said on Wednesday it awarded $1.35 billion in   contracts to three companies to develop a system to screen for   radioactive matter that might be hidden in cargo.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said on Wednesday it has signed a &#36;154 million deal to help NASA's controversial repair mission to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope.
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Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching.
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German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG has signed a &#36;2 billion deal to provide Russia's national railway with 60 high speed trains, the company's chief executive said Tuesday.
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Electronic Data Systems Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to pay &#36;50 million to extend an agreement with Opsware Inc. for software used in running data centers.