Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has confirmed that he met on Friday with management members of Italian energy giant Enel, the majority owner of Slovak Elektrarne (SE) energy utility.
Construction on Ninh Thuan 1 and 2 nuclear power plants, the first of the kind in Vietnam, will be extended southwest as required in new changes to their master plan approved by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, local media reported Friday.
More than four years since Satoru Yamauchi abandoned his noodle restaurant to escape radiation spreading from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the Japanese government is almost ready to declare it safe to go home.
The meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are not over, and the Japanese government's push to decommission and dismantle the plants in the next…
Japanese utility company TEPCO will resume work to remove a protective cover from the stricken Fukushima reactor building in late July, a public Japanese broadcaster said.
Slovenia and Croatia agreed on Monday to extend the lifespan of a jointly-owned nuclear plant until 2043, overriding calls from green groups to close the facility.
Russia's state energy corporation Rosatom on Wednesday denied that it had already secretly won a massive nuclear power contract in South Africa, and sought to allay fears of corruption over the deal.
Russia's top exporter of primary stage nuclear material has completed a pilot shipment to Germany and Sweden via its northern Ust-Luga seaport.
Groundbreaking work at two Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutonium's magnetism, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and South African President Jacob Zuma said that launching a program of development of South Africa's nuclear energy was a priority, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
As India attempts to bolster its nuclear energy capabilities, it has just formalized an agreement with Kazakhstan to receive 5,000 tons of uranium over the next four years.
Amid preparations to restart nuclear reactors shut down following the 2011 Fukushima meltdown, the Japanese government plans to set a new standard for the permissible upper limit of radiation exposure for those in charge of anti-disaster operations.
Over 7000 people will return to their homes in Naraha town after the planned removal of evacuation order by the Japanese government on 5th September.
Kazakhstan on Wednesday signed an agreement with India to supply New Delhi with 5,000 tonnes of uranium over the next five years, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said after meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Atomic fuel was being loaded into a reactor in southern Japan on Tuesday as its operator prepared to restart operations despite widespread public opposition to the technology.
Austria's announcement Monday that it would challenge state aid for a new nuclear plant in Britain marks the latest step in the country's solo campaign to roll back atomic energy in Europe.
