Sofia (AFP) May 7, 2012 - Bulgaria has reached a debt rescheduling deal for 250 million euros ($326 million) owed to creditors headed by French bank BNP Paribas for an abandoned nuclear plant project, Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev said on Monday.
Genoa, Italy (AFP) May 7, 2012 - A gunman shot and wounded the head of an Italian nuclear energy company on Monday in an incident reminiscent of militant attacks in the 1970s, with police saying anarchists could be responsible.
Tokyo (AFP) May 5, 2012 - Japan switched off its last working nuclear reactor Saturday, leaving the country without atomic-generated electricity just over a year after the world's worst nuclear accident in a quarter of a century.
Lyon, France (AFP) May 2, 2012 - French police arrested three Greenpeace members Wednesday after an activist flew into the grounds of a nuclear power plant using a paraglider in a stunt aimed at revealing alleged security flaws.
Hanford, Wash. (UPI) May 2, 2012 - Washington State's plan for dealing with dangerous waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is incomplete and fails to address safety issues, critics say.
Amman (AFP) April 29, 2012 - Energy-poor Jordan said on Sunday a Russian firm and a French-Japanese consortium are to compete to build the kingdom's first nuclear plant.
Tokyo (AFP) April 27, 2012 - Japanese electricity companies said Friday they had booked multi-billion dollar losses in the last year after the Fukushima disaster shuttered nuclear power plants and ramped up fossil fuel use.
Tokyo (AFP) April 27, 2012 - The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Friday offered the Japanese government a controlling stake in return for a huge cash injection that would prevent it going under, media reported.
Brussels (AFP) April 26, 2012 - The EU's energy chief Thursday deemed an almost year-long study on nuclear plant safety in Europe as short on detail and numbers and demanded further work before publication of the critical report.
Paris (AFP) April 26, 2012 - French nuclear energy giant Areva on Thursday said sales rose by 2.4 percent in the first quarter this year to 2.026 billion euros ($2.64 billion) bolstered by growth in its mining business.
Jefferson City MO (SPX) Apr 26, 2012 - Westinghouse Electric Company and Ameren Missouri have entered into an agreement to respond collaboratively to the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 26, 2012 - Following the success of AREVA's previous Polish Supplier Days held in Warsaw last October and in Wroclaw and Opole in March, AREVA and EDF have organized, with the support of the Association for th
Tokyo (AFP) April 24, 2012 - Japanese power companies are warning a hot summer could bring blackouts for some areas unless nuclear plants are re-started.
Tokyo (AFP) April 24, 2012 - The head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development urged Japan on Tuesday to resume nuclear electricity generation despite public opposition.
Istanbul (AFP) April 20, 2012 - Turkey's energy minister said Friday that Canadian company Candu had applied to build the country's second nuclear power plant in cooperation with Turkish company EUAS.
Yerevan (AFP) April 19, 2012 - Armenia on Thursday said it had decided to extend the life of its Soviet-era nuclear reactor by four years until 2020 despite concerns raised by environmentalists in the earthquake-prone country.
