Moscow (AFP) Nov 27, 2015 - Russia is preparing a raft of retaliatory economic measures against Turkey after Ankara downed one of its warplanes, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.
Seoul (AFP) Nov 25, 2015 - South Korea and the United States on Wednesday formally ratified a new nuclear cooperation agreement that stops short of granting Seoul the permission it had sought to start reprocessing spent nuclear fuel.
Cairo (Sputnik) Nov 24, 2015 - Russia and Egypt have signed an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of Egypt's first nuclear power plant, Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said Thursday. The deal was sig
Ankara (Sputnik) Nov 24, 2015 - The first reactor of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, to be constructed under a Russia-led project in Turkey, will start operating no later than in 2022, the Turkish Energy Ministry's deputy undersec
Johannesburg (AFP) Nov 23, 2015 - Heavily reliant on coal-fired electricity, South Africa is launching ambitious new projects aimed at diversifying its energy sources and avoiding the regular power cuts that have hobbled the economy in recent years.
Moscow (AFP) Nov 23, 2015 - President Vladimir Putin on Monday eased restrictions on Russian companies working on Iranian enrichment sites as he travelled to Tehran for his first visit since 2007.
London (AFP) Nov 19, 2015 - Cracks were discovered in graphite bricks around the core of a nuclear reactor at a power station in Scotland during an inspection, operator EDF said on Thursday.
Cairo (AFP) Nov 19, 2015 - Russia signed two agreements Thursday to finance and build Egypt's first nuclear power plant, in a televised ceremony attended by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Beijing (XNA) Nov 17, 2015 - China General Nuclear Power Group has signed a $7.7 billion agreement to set up two nuclear reactors in Romania. The memorandum of understanding, signed on Monday between CGN and Romanian state-owne
Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2015 - A Chinese state-owned company will finance and build two nuclear power plants in Argentina, the enterprise said, in a deal estimated to be valued at nearly $15 billion.
Manila (Sputnik) Nov 17, 2015 - Russia notes Indonesia's keen interest in implementing nuclear energy projects, hoping to increase the number of contracts to construct nuclear power plants in the country, Russian Economic Developm
Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 17, 2015 - Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia has created a control system on its nuclear facilities that has brought the main risks of radiation ecological disasters to nil. Russia has created a control s
Johannesburg (AFP) Nov 16, 2015 - Nuclear energy regulators in South Africa and China have signed a technical cooperation agreement as Africa's most industrialised economy presses forward with controversial plans to build eight new nuclear reactors.
Sydney (AFP) Nov 13, 2015 - Australia on Friday announced six sites, including some in Outback areas, on a shortlist for the nation's first nuclear waste dump, risking fresh controversy after an earlier plan was scuttled by opposition from Aboriginal landowners.
Helsinki (AFP) Nov 12, 2015 - Finland's government gave the green light Thursday for the construction of the world's first permanent repository designed to store nuclear waste for 100,000 years.
London, UK (SPX) Nov 10, 2015 - AREVA has been selected by the Spanish utility CNAT (Centrales Nucleares Almaraz-Trillo) to supply fuel assemblies to the Trillo nuclear power plant. The company will supply six fuel reloads to CNAT
