Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 30, 2025 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been off the grid for seven straight days, warning of the potential threat of a critical situation.
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 25, 2024 - President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia on Wednesday of plotting potentially catastrophic attacks on Ukrainian nuclear plants, in a defiant UN address ahead of US elections that could sharply shift the stance of Kyiv's main backer.
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 6, 2022 - The Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, the largest in Europe and currently occupied by Russian troops, is at the centre of international fears because of recent shelling, with both sides trading blame.
Sanaa (AFP) Sept 22, 2007 - Yemen will hold talks with US and Canadian investors on funding construction of a nuclear reactor in the Arabian peninsula country, Energy and Electricity Minister Mustafa Bahran said Saturday.
London (AFP) Sept 29, 2007 - Demolition experts blew up Saturday the giant cooling towers of the world's first commercial nuclear power station, 51 years after it was opened in northwest England.
Tehran (AFP) Sept 10, 2016 - Russian and Iranian firms began work on Saturday on two additional reactors at Iran's nuclear power plant on the Gulf coast at Bushehr, the project manager said.
Kiev (AFP) Sept 24, 2010 - A French company has begun work on erecting a new sarcophagus to confine the Chernobyl reactor that exploded in 1986 in the world's worst nuclear disaster, a spokeswoman for the operation said Friday.
Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2008 - The White House said late Wednesday it sent the text of a landmark US-India civilian nuclear agreement to Congress for final approval but it remains unclear if lawmakers will give the accord the greenlight.
Carti Sugtupu, Panama (AFP) Sept 6, 2023 - On a tiny Caribbean island, hundreds of people are preparing to pack up and move to escape the rising waters threatening to engulf their already precarious homes.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 7, 2012 - Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators returned to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's executive mansion in central Tokyo Friday for a weekly rally.
Hanoi (AFP) Sept 17, 2007 - Vietnam has sent a shipment of highly enriched uranium used at its Soviet-built Dalat research reactor to Russia as part of a fuel conversion plan agreed with the United States, an official said Monday.
Caracas (AFP) Sept 28, 2008 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he was interested in accepting Russia's offer of help in developing a civilian nuclear power program.
Tehran (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected any compromise over his country's nuclear programme this week, vowing not to yield to pressure to give up uranium enrichment.
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 - Ukraine said Sunday the sixth and final reactor at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in the south of the country was no longer generating electricity.
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 5, 2022 - Ukraine's embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's last working reactor has been switched off from the grid, the Ukrainian power plants operator said on Monday.
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 17, 2022 - Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is receiving power from the national grid once again, the UN's atomic agency (IAEA) said Saturday, after it was cut off from external power, raising the risk of an accident.
