Ankara (AFP) Jan 02, 2013 - Turkey expects to pick this month the winner of a tender for the construction of a second nuclear power plant near the Black Sea city of Sinop, its energy minister said on Wednesday.
Tokyo (UPI) Jan 2, 2013 - Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has indicated he would approve the construction of more nuclear reactors.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 1, 2013 - Japanese regulators have found inadequate fireproofing at more than one fifth of the nuclear reactors that went offline after the 2011 Fukushima crisis, a major daily said Tuesday.
Seoul (AFP) Dec 31, 2012 - South Korea on Monday restarted one of three nuclear reactors shut down for safety reasons, easing fears of power shortages during the harsh winter.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 31, 2012 - Japan's new prime minister Shinzo Abe has voiced his willingness to build new nuclear reactors, reports said Monday, despite widespread public opposition to atomic energy since the Fukushima crisis.
Tokyo (UPI) Dec 28, 2012 - Japan's nuclear watchdog says it will recommend shutting down a power plant in Fukui Prefecture if a geologic fault under the facility proves to be active.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 27, 2012 - Japan's Toshiba is in talks with three parties about selling a stake of up to 16 percent in US nuclear power plant builder Westinghouse Electric, a report said Thursday.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 27, 2012 - Japan's new leaders set to work Thursday on dismantling plans to rid the country of nuclear power by 2040, pledging to review a post-Fukushima policy.
Tehran (AFP) Dec 26, 2012 - Iran on Wednesday denied statements by a lawmaker that is it paying Russian women working as technicians at its sole nuclear power plant to adhere to the Islamic dress code, the Fars news agency reported.
Ankara (AFP) Dec 25, 2012 - Asian countries are closer to winning a bid to build Turkey's second nuclear power plant near the Black Sea city of Sinop, the Turkish energy minister said on Tuesday, in a signal that Canada was no longer in the running.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 23, 2012 - Japan's incoming pro-nuclear premier Shinzo Abe said Sunday his government will again investigate the Fukushima atomic crisis, after which the country's reactors could be restarted, reports said.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 23, 2012 - Eight million people signed an Internet petition demanding an end to nuclear power and hundreds of thousands joined public protests. Yet Japan handed an election landslide to the most pro-atomic option on offer.
Stockholm (AFP) Dec 21, 2012 - Swedish energy group Vattenfall is demanding 30 billion kronor (3.5 billion euros, $4.6 billion) in damages from Germany following Berlin's decision to shut some nuclear reactors, media reported on Friday.
Stockholm (AFP) Dec 21, 2012 - A reactor in Sweden's biggest nuclear plant was stopped Thursday after an infiltration of sea water, the operator Vattenfall and the national nuclear industry watchdog said.
Tokyo (UPI) Dec 21, 2012 - A nuclear watchdog agency in Japan says earthquake faults in the country's Aomori Prefecture may be active and could affect many nuclear facilities.
Los Angeles (UPI) Dec 19, 2012 - U.S. regulators and Southern California Edison officials say they've discussed a restart proposal for the San Onofre nuclear plant, closed for safety concerns.
