Czech state-run power group CEZ said on Monday it had received three bids to build two units at its Temelin nuclear power facility in the southern Czech Republic, as expected.
Engineers in Japan on Sunday began refiring an atomic reactor, despite growing public protests in the aftermath of meltdowns at Fukushima, ending nearly two months in which the country was nuclear-free.
Japan prepared to bring nuclear power back online by reactivating one of its idled reactors on Sunday, defying growing public protests since last year's meltdowns at Fukushima.
Tens of thousands of people rallied outside the Japanese premier's residence in Tokyo Friday, in what organisers said was one of the largest demonstrations held against the restart of nuclear reactors.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. is to abandon plans to export its nuclear power plant expertise as it struggles to cope with the Fukushima disaster, news reports said Thursday.
A boisterous shareholders' meeting on Wednesday rubber stamped the effective nationalisation of TEPCO, the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Slovakia's prime minister said Tuesday he wants more than twice as much EU cash to fully decommission two Soviet-era nuclear reactors that were closed after the country joined the European Union.
The Dukovany nuclear plant in the southern Czech Republic has increased its total power output to 2,000 megawatts following an extensive upgrade, a plant spokesman said on Tuesday.
Rebels attacked and looted a plant operated by French nuclear giant Areva near a uranium mine in the southeast of the Central African Republic, army and French diplomatic sources said Monday.
Researchers in Finland have found that acceptance of the site of a spent nuclear fuel repository can depend on gender and economic background.
French state-run energy company Areva signed outline arrangements on Friday with 11 Czech companies on potential cooperation in the construction of two nuclear units in the country.
Japan on Friday said its industrial heartland must cut electricity use by 10 percent this summer as the country grapples with a power shortage in the aftermath of last year's Fukushima atomic crisis.
About 20,000 people gathered in front of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's residence in Tokyo late Friday to protest his decision to restart two nuclear reactors.
Sweden has tightened security at its three nuclear power plants after routine checks revealed an explosive device planted on a truck inside its southern Ringhals plant, police said Thursday.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) must not make final licensing decisions until it has completed a rulemaking action on the environmental impacts of…
Lithuania's parliament on Thursday approved a deal with Japan's Hitachi on the construction of a new nuclear plant aimed at reducing the Baltic state's energy dependence on Russia.
