Washington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2012 - Japan's energy policy is now at its most critical juncture since the inception of nuclear power in 1966. Nearly 16 months after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station - the worl
Jaipur, India (AFP) July 24, 2012 - More than 40 workers at a nuclear power station in northern India have been exposed to tritium radiation in two separate leaks in the past five weeks, company managers said on Tuesday.
Rome (AFP) July 24, 2012 - A rail convoy carrying highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from Italy to France set off from the northern Italian town of Saluggia overnight, Italian media reported Tuesday.
Tokyo (AFP) July 23, 2012 - Japanese officials and Tokyo Electric Power ignored the risk of an atomic accident because they believed in the myth of nuclear safety, a government-backed report on the Fukushima crisis said Monday.
Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2012 - Radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may eventually cause anywhere from 15 to 1,300 deaths and from 24 to 2,500 cases of cancer, mostly in Japan, Stanford researchers have calcu
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2012 - The same underlying man-made problems that contribute significantly to the Fukushima reactor disaster in Japan are in place in the United States and require preventative actions that go far beyond
Tokyo (AFP) July 19, 2012 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday was told it could hike household bills by around 8.5 percent, as the president insisted his company was misunderstood by the public.
Tokyo (AFP) July 19, 2012 - Japan's usually sedate society is angry and getting organised against nuclear power, with the kind of snowballing protest movement not seen for decades.
Tokyo (AFP) July 18, 2012 - Japan's nuclear safety watchdog on Wednesday ordered a probe into claims the country's only working nuclear power station sits on an active tectonic fault.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) July 18, 2012 - The UAE will begin building two of four nuclear power plants in partnership with a South Korean consortium, the first of which will begin production in 2017, the Gulf state announced Wednesday.
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jul 16, 2012 - Russia and the United States have completed 90% of the volume covered in an agreement on Russia processing highly enriched uranium to supply nuclear power plants in the U.S. according to press state
Helsinki (AFP) July 16, 2012 - Finnish electricity company TVO revealed on Monday a new delay in the operation of an EPR nuclear reactor being built by Areva and Siemens which is already five years late.
Vilnius (AFP) July 16, 2012 - Lithuania's parliament on Monday called a referendum on plans for an atomic power plant to replace a Soviet-era facility closed under the terms of Lithuania's entry into the European Union.
Tokyo (AFP) July 16, 2012 - Tens of thousands of people rallied in Tokyo on Monday demanding an end to nuclear power, the latest in a series of anti-atomic gatherings following the tsunami-sparked disaster at Fukushima last year.
Vilnius (AFP) July 12, 2012 - A top European watchdog on Thursday warned Lithuania that Brussels may freeze funds aimed at helping it decommission a Soviet-era nuclear reactor unless the Baltic state improved its management.
Los Angeles (AFP) July 12, 2012 - US nuclear regulators published an update on California's troubled San Onofre power plant Thursday, sparking an expert warning that the problem is more serious than first thought.
