Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Aug 09, 2013 - Nagasaki on Friday marked the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing by the United States during World War II that turned the Japanese city into an inferno.
Tokyo (UPI) Aug 8, 2013 - The Japanese government has signaled it plans to take a more direct role in the clean-up effort at the Fukushima nuclear power plant amid rising concerns radioactive water is leaking into the Pacific Ocean.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 07, 2013 - Japan's prime minister Wednesday said Tokyo would get more involved in cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, as he described as urgent a battle to stop radioactive water from leaking into the ocean.
Paris, France (AFP) Aug 07, 2013 - French nuclear power group Areva has resumed full production of uranium at the Somair site at Arlit in northern Niger which was attacked in May, the company said on Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 04, 2013 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has given its first public estimate of the size of the leakage of radioactive tritium into the Pacific Ocean since the disaster.
Taipei (AFP) Aug 02, 2013 - Taiwanese lawmakers hurled water and wrestled each other to the floor of the island's parliament Friday in a brawl which broke out during a debate on the fate of a controversial nuclear plant.
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) July 31, 2013 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday it swung to a net profit in the quarter to June after a government bailout and electricity rate hike.
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) July 30, 2013 - Japan's nuclear watchdog will beef up monitoring at the crippled Fukushima power plant, an agency official said Tuesday, after leaks of radioactive groundwater into the ocean sparked heavy criticism of the site's operator.
Moscow (UPI) Jul 29, 2013 - A subsidiary of Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom said Tuesday it signed an agreement to build floating nuclear power plants with China.
Istanbul, Turkey (UPI) Jul 29, 2013 - A rejected environmental impact analysis report could delay construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant, the company behind the project says.
Prague, Czech Republic (SPX) Jul 26, 2013 - Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it has contracted with Vitkovice Power Engineering a.s., a member of the Czech Vitkovice Machinery Group, to construct a mock-up of one of the AP1000
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) July 26, 2013 - Foreign nuclear experts on Friday blasted the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, with one saying its lack of transparency over radioactive water leaks showed you don't know what you're doing.
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 26, 2013 - In the aftermath of Japan's earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was initially driven into shutdown by the magnitude 9.0 quake; its emergency generators then fai
Tokyo (AFP) July 24, 2013 - The clean-up after the Fukushima nuclear disaster could cost five times more than estimated, figures have revealed, as Tokyo Electric Power said on Wednesday that steam had been seen again in a reactor building.
Asuncion, Paraguay (UPI) Jul 23, 2013 - Argentina has upset landlocked Paraguay with its plan to build a nuclear power reactor near their common border without formal consultations.
Tokyo, Tokyo Province (AFP) July 22, 2013 - The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Monday admitted for the first time that radioactive groundwater has leaked out to sea, fuelling fears of ocean contamination.
