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.
Belfort, France (AFP) Sept 22, 2021 - French electricity giant EDF is in talks with General Electric to buy its steam turbine business for nuclear plants, the companies confirmed Wednesday, the latest move by the American conglomerate to streamline its operations and cut debt.
Paris (AFP) Sept 15, 2022 - French state energy firm EDF said Thursday that lower electricity production due to stoppages of nuclear reactors would sap its operating profit by 29 billion euros ($29 billion) in 2022, worse than previously forecast.
Paris (AFP) Sept 28, 2010 - French electricity generator EDF is working on two new nuclear reactor designs of its own which could rival those made by Areva, the world's biggest atomic energy company, the Expansion magazine said.
Paris (AFP) Sept 22, 2010 - France's state-owned nuclear giant Areva was in the spotlight Wednesday and its boss under pressure after a revelation it knew its workers in Niger were at risk long before last week's kidnap.
