Los Angeles (AFP) June 21, 2013 - Heightened radioactivity levels were found outside a nuclear waste tank in the US state of Washington, officials said Friday, in a new alert about a site used to make Cold War-era bombs.
Bucharest (AFP) June 19, 2013 - Romania will sell a 10 percent stake in Nuclearelectrica, the company that operates a nuclear power plant in Cernavoda, the government said Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) June 19, 2013 - Cancer-causing radioactive substances have been found in groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, its Japanese operator said Wednesday, as it pledged to prevent them getting into the sea.
Warsaw (AFP) June 18, 2013 - Poland could delay building its first nuclear power plants as natural gas, including shale gas, becomes less costly, the prime minister of the central European heavyweight said Tuesday.
Warsaw (AFP) June 16, 2013 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a push on Sunday for his country's nuclear technologies at a summit in Warsaw with leaders of four ex-Communist European Union countries, as part of his bid to boost the Asian powerhouse's exports.
Warsaw (AFP) June 16, 2013 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets the leaders of four ex-communist European countries on Sunday at a regional summit in Warsaw, where he is expected to promote the country's nuclear technologies.
Tokyo (AFP) June 13, 2013 - A public official charged with helping victims of Japan's nuclear disaster who launched a foul-mouthed Twitter tirade faced calls to quit Thursday.
Archbald, PA (SPX) Jun 13, 2013 - Lockheed Martin and State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Company (SNPAS) have signed an agreement to prototype, manufacture and qualify nuclear power plant reactor protection systems fo
Brussels (AFP) June 13, 2013 - The European Commission called for stress tests every six years on the dozens of nuclear reactors operating in the European Union as it issued new safety rules in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster.
Tokyo (AFP) June 11, 2013 - The wife of Japan's pro-business Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not like nuclear power and would rather her husband's government did not try to export it, she said in a speech.
Tokyo (AFP) June 08, 2013 - Japan's prime minister is expected to sign a nuclear cooperation deal with the Czech Republic this month, a report said Saturday, as Tokyo looks to build up its exports of the technology.
Los Angeles (AFP) June 7, 2013 - A California nuclear power plant shut down last year after a radiation leak will be permanently closed, its owners said Friday.
Washington (UPI) Jun 7, 2013 - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered nearly a third of the nation's nuclear reactors to upgrade their venting systems.
Perth, Australia (UPI) Jun 6, 2013 - Australia's Resource Minister has called for ramping up the country's uranium sector.
Tokyo (AFP) June 06, 2013 - Japan's Tokyo Electric Power has conceded the Fukushima disaster played a part in a farmer's suicide, lawyers said Thursday, its first admission of culpability in such a case.
Seoul (AFP) June 06, 2013 - South Korea on Thursday fired the head of the state-run company that oversees the country's 23 nuclear reactors over a forged documentation scandal that has shut a host of those reactors down.
