Amman (AFP) Sept 12, 2012 - King Abdullah II on Wednesday accused Israel of disrupting Jordan's nuclear energy plans and warned of sectarian violence spilling across the border from Syria, in a wide-ranging interview with AFP.
London (AFP) Sept 1, 2022 - Boris Johnson on Thursday pledged 700 million pounds ($815 million) in funding for the new Sizewell C nuclear power station, as he prepares to hand over power as UK prime minister.
Paris (AFP) Sept 01, 2014 - A jinxed new-generation nuclear reactor for Finland is to begin producing electricity in 2018, nine years late, one of the main partners in the project, Areva of France, said on Monday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 12, 2019 - Japan's newly appointed environment minister has said he wants to scrap nuclear power plants, warning of the need to avoid a repeat of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 07, 2014 - Japan's new industry minister Yuko Obuchi on Sunday visited the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, days after assuming her new post.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 28, 2007 - Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is making a full-scale entry into China's growing market for nuclear power generation as it has won a major order there, the company said Friday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 20, 2012 - Japan's Kansai Electric Power said Thursday that it would incur a record net loss of 125 billion yen ($1.6 billion) for a year half period due to the impact of the nation's nuclear crisis.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2007 - A Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tuesday reported a small leak of radioactive water, amid growing public concern about the country's nuclear industry.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 4, 2007 - A Japanese electric power firm said Tuesday that a small amount of water containing radioactive material had leaked from a nuclear plant, amid rising public concern about the country's nuclear industry.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 21, 2012 - Japan will go nuclear free, the prime minister insisted Friday, rebutting criticism that his government was floundering and unable to come up with a coherent position on the issue.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 03, 2013 - Tokyo on Tuesday unveiled a half-billion dollar plan to stem radioactive water leaks at Fukushima, creating a wall of ice underneath the stricken plant, as the government elbowed the operator aside.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 6, 2011 - Japan plans to seek advice from the UN atomic watchdog before restarting nuclear reactors stopped as a precaution after the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster, reports said.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 15, 2013 - Japan Sunday began switching off its last operating nuclear reactor for an inspection, with no date scheduled for a restart amid strong public hostility towards atomic power.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 12, 2012 - Japan will abandon nuclear power within the next three decades under new government policy on the post-Fukushima energy mix, a newspaper said Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 14, 2012 - Japan on Friday said it planned to phase out nuclear power over three decades in an apparent bow to public pressure after last year's Fukushima disaster, the worst atomic accident in a generation.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 19, 2011 - Japan's minister handling the Fukushima crisis told a gathering of the UN atomic agency Monday his country would have a safer future, after a massive anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo.
