More than 600 people working at a Chinese-operated uranium mine in northern Niger on Thursday began an "indefinite" strike action to protest their working conditions, a union official said.
A rat may have caused a power cut that knocked out cooling systems at Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the operator said Thursday, an episode that highlighted the jerry-rigged nature of the fix.
Flanked by Germany, which is phasing out nuclear power, and Austria, which has already done so, the Czech Republic is pinning its future on atomic energy.
Technicians have restored power to all cooling systems at the reactors of Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, the operating company said Wednesday after a blackout sparked a new crisis.
South Korea announced Tuesday plans to open all its 23 nuclear reactors to international inspection in an apparent bid to allay growing public concern over nuclear safety.
Despite concerns about its nuclear liability law, India continues to be "a land of opportunity for global nuclear power suppliers," said an adviser to the United States.
Britain gave the go-ahead on Tuesday for the first of a planned new generation of nuclear power plants.
A power failure at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant forced operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Two years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis, the head of French group Areva, a leading company in the sector, insisted that public confidence in atomic energy has been re-established.
Some 40 Greenpeace activists were arrested inside an atomic power plant in Argentina on Monday at a protest on the second anniversary of the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan, the group said.
AREVA has just completed the first production campaign at its Romans plant in France of the fuel assemblies destined for the Taishan 1 EPRTM reactor.
Anti-nuclear rallies took place across Japan Sunday on the eve of the second anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, urging Japan's new government to abandon nuclear power.
Tens of thousands of Taiwanese people rallied in the capital Saturday to demand the government heed the lesson of a Japanese atomic crisis and scrap the island's nuclear facilities, organisers said.
Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators rallied in Tokyo Saturday ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, urging Japan's new government to abandon nuclear power.
Federal spending cuts will slow down the cleanup of radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Washington Gov.
More than half of Taiwan's public want construction of a long-delayed nuclear plant to be halted due to safety concerns, according to two surveys released Thursday ahead of a mass protest.
