Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Thursday that the French government remains committed to finishing a new-generation nuclear reactor despite further cost overruns.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began her European tour with visiting the Czech Republic.
When it comes to choices in Japanese politics, quantity has certainly given over to quality.
Bulgaria's president said Wednesday that his party might support reviving a major joint nuclear power project with Russia abandoned earlier this year even if a January referendum fails as expected to attract enough voters to be valid.
Italian power giant Enel on Tuesday said it was pulling out of a deal with France's EDF to build nuclear reactors at six plants and added that it would receive 613 million euros ($802 million) in reimbursements.
French energy group EDF raised Wednesday the total cost of its long-delayed new-generation nuclear reactor at Flamanville in western France by 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) to 8.5 billion.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday backed a bid by US energy giant Westinghouse to build two new units at the Czech Temelin nuclear plant worth at…
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has extended the international research program conducted…
Anti-nuclear parties banded into a new political group on Wednesday, as Japan's fragmented electoral landscape shifts ahead of next month's national poll.
Nuclear power-dependent France this week will launch a six-month national debate on the government's proposals for an "energy transition" toward renewables.
A new political party, expected to become the unifying force of an anti-nuclear energy coalition, has been formed in Japan ahead of next month's elections for the lower house of Parliament.
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda promised Tuesday to rid Japan of nuclear energy in coming decades as he set out his party's platform before next month's general election.
Japan should do more to address fears over radiation in the area around Fukushima, a UN health expert said Monday, urging it to consult those affected by nuclear pollution.
Britain awarded its first new nuclear power plant site licence for 25 years on Monday to French energy giant EDF, which is looking to build a new station in southwest England.
A company building a plant to treat high-level radioactive waste in Hanford, Wash., may have committed safety and health violations, an investigation found.
One of the most nuclear-dependent of Japan's 10 major utility companies says it plans to reactivate two reactors to join two put back online this summer.
