Berlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2022 - Germany said Monday it would keep two nuclear plants on standby beyond the end of the year in a policy u-turn, as the shut-off of Russian gas supplies sends Europe scrambling for energy sources.
Vilnius (AFP) Sept 6, 2010 - Fresh from her controversial announcement that Germany aims to postpone abandoning nuclear energy, Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday threw Berlin's weight behind a planned four-nation plant in Lithuania.
Berlin (AFP) Sept 23, 2010 - German authorities approved Thursday hotly disputed plans to ship radioactive nuclear waste to Russia in a move expected to spark fresh protests by atomic energy opponents in both countries.
Berlin (AFP) Sept 13, 2009 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her rival, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, sparred Sunday on minimum wages and nuclear power in an otherwise tepid TV debate before elections in two weeks' time.
Berlin (AFP) Sept 28, 2009 - Green groups in Germany vowed on Monday to hit the streets if Chancellor Angela Merkel's victorious new coalition keeps its campaign promise to reverse the country's scheduled exit from nuclear power.
Berlin (AFP) Sept 18, 2011 - German industrial giant Siemens is turning the page on nuclear energy in line with Berlin's decision to agree to an end to atomic power, the group's CEO Peter Loescher said Sunday.
Berlin (AFP) Sept 28, 2010 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved on Tuesday hotly disputed plans to postpone by more than a decade the date when Europe's biggest economy abandons nuclear power.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 02, 2013 - Japan's nuclear watchdog chief said Monday that contaminated water from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant must be released into the ocean eventually, warning the plant remains fragile with many risks.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 05, 2013 - Highly radioactive water leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant may have seeped into groundwater flowing towards the Pacific Ocean, the plant's operator said Thursday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 27, 2013 - Fukushima operator TEPCO on Friday asked Japan's nuclear watchdog for permission to restart a separate atomic power station, as it resumed cleaning polluted water at the crippled plant.
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.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2013 - Japan's efforts to clean up its nuclear disaster face intense global scrutiny ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, observers say, but despite government promises that Fukushima is under control the crisis will not be over by 2020.
Paris (AFP) Sept 16, 2011 - France's nuclear power operator plans to add safety backups to its plants following the Fukushima disaster, says a report made public on Friday by the country's atomic watchdog.
Mandres-En-Barrois, France (AFP) Sept 20, 2025 - A project to build a facility to store highly radioactive nuclear waste in the French countryside drew a protest by hundreds of people on Saturday, with police firing tear gas to break up rowdy demonstrators.
Vilnius (AFP) Sept 6, 2007 - French companies want to take part in the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania, France's European affairs minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet said Thursday in Vilnius.
Vilnius (AFP) Sept 30, 2011 - France's energy giant EDF has refused a Russian offer to build a nuclear power plant, Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said after meeting his French counterpart Francois Fillon.
