Tokyo (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - The race to become the next governor of Tokyo kicked off Thursday in an election widely seen as a referendum on Japan's energy policy, almost three years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - Japanese researchers said Thursday they had succeeded in using cosmic rays to find nuclear fuel inside a reactor, a technology that might be helpful in the complicated decommissioning at Fukushima.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that Toshiba Corporation has agreed in principle to buy a 60 percent share in the NuGeneration Limited (NuGen) Moorside project in West Cumbria, U.K., and
La Paz (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Bolivia's President Evo Morales said Wednesday he wanted to produce nuclear energy, even though his country is South America's poorest.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 15, 2014 - Japan's Toshiba said Wednesday it would buy a controlling interest in British nuclear firm NuGeneration as it tries to rekindle an atomic business hammered by the 2011 Fukushima crisis.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 15, 2014 - Japan's government on Wednesday approved a fresh business plan for the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant that includes restarting idled reactors elsewhere in the currently nuclear-free country.
Moscow (AFP) Jan 14, 2014 - Hungary on Tuesday tasked Russia's atomic energy corporation to more than double production at the EU nation's only nuclear power plant in a contract worth nearly $14 billion.
Tehran (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - UN nuclear experts will visit Iran on Saturday to prepare for a deal curbing the Islamic republic's atomic programme two days before it takes effect, an official in Tehran said.
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 13, 2014 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant plans to start cleaning underground tunnels believed to be part of the sources of radioactive materials poisoning the groundwater in t
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - South Korea's president arrives this Wednesday in India on an official visit during which she is expected to push for some of the South Asian nation's nuclear business, officials said.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 10, 2014 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has paid way over the odds to contractors, a company spokesman said Friday, vowing to boost cost-controls at the taxpayer-subsidised firm.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 09, 2014 - A team of nuclear scientists in Japan said Thursday they plan to create a controlled reactor meltdown in a bid to learn how to deal with future disasters like that at Fukushima.
Copenhagen (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - An agreement between Greenland and Denmark governing uranium extraction in the Arctic territory will be in place by the end of the year, the Danish prime minister said on Wednesday.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jan 03, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium team member CB&I and China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation announce the successful setting of the shield building conical roofs on the firs
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 02, 2014 - China has agreed to lend Pakistan $6.5 billion to help build nuclear power stations including a 2,200-megawatt plant in Karachi, as Beijing increases its involvement in the cash-strapped country.
Riyadh (AFP) Dec 31, 2013 - Saudi-owned Soroof International will file a complaint against French energy giant EDF, the conglomerate chaired by Prince Bandar bin Abdullah al-Saud said on Tuesday.
