Tokyo (AFP) May 30, 2012 - Japan on Wednesday inched closer to re-starting idle nuclear reactors, just weeks after the last one was switched off amid public disquiet following the disaster at Fukushima.
Moscow (AFP) May 29, 2012 - Russia is ready to help Iran build a new nuclear power plant alongside the first one Moscow helped construct in the city of Bushehr, a top official at the state nuclear firm Rosatom said on Tuesday.
Tokyo (UPI) May 29, 2012 - Japan's former prime minister has warned against the use of nuclear energy.
Johannesburg (AFP) May 29, 2012 - Five Greenpeace activists were roughed up by South African private security guards and briefly detained during an anti-nuclear protest in Johannesburg on Tuesday, a spokeswoman said.
Tokyo (AFP) May 28, 2012 - The grip of the nuclear lobby in Japan before the Fukushima disaster was akin to that of the military in the run up to World War II, the prime minister at the time of last year's catastrophe said Monday.
Riga (AFP) May 28, 2012 - Lithuania on Monday blasted plans by Russia and Belarus to build nuclear power plants close to its borders, accusing both of lax safety and environmental standards.
Tokyo (AFP) May 28, 2012 - The head of Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company Monday urged the prime minister to quickly decide on restarting two nuclear reactors at its Oi plant to avoid summer power shortages.
Ljubljana (AFP) May 27, 2012 - Slovenia's only nuclear power plant resumed production on Sunday after a regular 42-day maintenance shutdown, authorities at the Krsko nuclear plant said.
Tehran (AFP) May 27, 2012 - Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, state television reported on Sunday, quoting the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organisation.
Tokyo (AFP) May 25, 2012 - Japan may look to generating 15 percent of its electricity needs from nuclear power, a minister said Friday, as the country seeks to rebalance its energy supply after the Fukushima disaster.
Arlington VA (SPX) May 24, 2012 - Westinghouse Electric Company, Burns and McDonnell and General Dynamics Electric Boat will collaboratively team to support the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor (SMR) application for the U.S. Depar
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 24, 2012 - Westinghouse Electric Company and the Missouri Electric Alliance led by Ameren Missouri has announced the formation of a utility participation group called the NexStart SMR Alliance. The Allia
Washington (AFP) May 24, 2012 - US President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated a new chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, after the former head Gregory Jaczko resigned after months of personnel controversy.
Washington DC (SPX) May 24, 2012 - Though its trials and travails at the national level get all the attention, the nuclear power industry is finding fewer and fewer friends in statehouses across the nation. In the Southeast, traditio
Sofia (AFP) May 24, 2012 - Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant announced Thursday it had switched one of its reactors back on to the electricity grid, after a month of refuelling and repairs.
Taipei, Taiwan (XNA) May 23, 2012 - Taiwanese investigators acting on tip-offs have launched an anti-graft probe into engineering and procurement staff with an under-construction power plant for green-lighting the purchase of wires an
