Moscow (AFP) Oct 01, 2014 - Moscow and Kazakhstan have initialled an agreement on jointly building and operating what would become Kazakhstan's only nuclear power plant, Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom said on Wednesday.
Pretoria (AFP) Oct 01, 2014 - South Africa denied Wednesday any corruption was involved in a multi-billion dollar nuclear energy deal after controversy erupted over whether Russia had won the contract.
Stockholm (AFP) Oct 01, 2014 - Sweden's Social Democrats and Greens, in negotiations to form a government, announced Wednesday they had reached an agreement to freeze nuclear energy development.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 30, 2014 - The operator of Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear plant announced Tuesday it had agreed to share knowledge and experience on decommissioning damaged reactors with Britain's Sellafield.
Mumbai (AFP) Sept 28, 2014 - India's new prime minister is turning to nuclear energy to ease a power crisis made worse by the cancellation of hundreds of coal mining permits, but he faces scepticism both at home and abroad.
Paris (SPX) Sep 25, 2014 - AREVA Federal Services (AFS), an AREVA subsidiary in the United States, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue the development of next generation fuel for lig
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 25, 2014 - Nanocomposite oxide ceramics have potential uses as ferroelectrics, fast ion conductors, and nuclear fuels and for storing nuclear waste, generating a great deal of scientific interest on the struct
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Sep 25, 2014 - Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. The experimenta
Vienna (AFP) Sept 24, 2014 - Austria will launch a legal challenge if the European Commission approves Britain's ambitious plan to build its first new nuclear plant in a generation, Vienna's environment minister said Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 23, 2014 - Some 16,000 people rallied Tuesday in the Japanese capital against the government's plan to restart nuclear reactors, more than three years after the Fukushima disaster, Jiji Press said.
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 23, 2014 - South Africa's government on Tuesday said it had not yet awarded Russia a deal worth as much as $50 billion to develop eight nuclear reactors, saying the countries had merely signed a cooperation agreement.
Brussels (AFP) Sept 22, 2014 - The EU will recommend approval of Britain's ambitious plan to build its first nuclear plant in a generation, with backing from French and Chinese energy giants, after ruling that it met state aid rules, a spokesman said Monday.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 22, 2014 - Russia's atomic energy agency said Monday it will provide up to eight nuclear reactors to South Africa by 2023 in a $50 billion strategic partnership between the two countries.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 21, 2014 - Japan's new industry minister Yuko Obuchi said Sunday the resource-poor nation should be realistic about its energy needs as the government tries to convince a sceptical public on the necessity of nuclear power.
Helsinki (AFP) Sept 18, 2014 - Finland's Green League party said Thursday it was leaving the ruling coalition over the approval by the government of a nuclear plant project to be built by Russia's Rosatom.
East Lansing MI (SPX) Sep 18, 2014 - A microbe developed to clean up nuclear waste and patented by a Michigan State University researcher has just been improved. In earlier research, Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist, identified
