Paris (AFP) Feb 9, 2012 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Thursday to keep France's oldest nuclear power plant at Fessenheim running and slammed his Socialist opponent for promising to close it.
Berlin (AFP) Feb 9, 2012 - KILL our Europe-weather-Germany-energy-nuclear-electricity Cold snap forces Germany to restart nuclear reactors: report. Story incorrectly referred to nuclear reactors. New version upcoming.
Beijing (AFP) Feb 9, 2012 - Authorities in eastern China have demanded that construction on a nuclear power station be stopped immediately, saying residents in the quake-prone area are in danger, state media reported Thursday.
Prague (AFP) Feb 8, 2012 - The Czech Republic is to scale back its nuclear energy ambitions, the industry minister said Wednesday in a newspaper interview.
Luxembourg (AFP) Feb 8, 2012 - The EU faces a shortfall of some 2.5 billion euros to complete de-commissioning of eight ex-Soviet nuclear plants in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia, the European Court of Auditors said Wednesday.
Berlin (AFP) Feb 8, 2012 - The cold snap gripping Europe has forced Germany, which decided last year to abandon nuclear power, to bring several reactors back on line, the daily Handelsblatt reports in its Thursday issue.
Paris (AFP) Feb 7, 2012 - France's ASN nuclear safety body said on Tuesday it had approved the safety options for the Atmea1 reactor project being carried out by France's Areva and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 06, 2012 - AREVA, who leads the EPR Team, submitted its commercial bid for the construction of a nuclear power plant at Pyhajoki, in North Ostrobothnia, Finland. With this commercial bid, the EPR Team's
Frankfurt (AFP) Feb 5, 2012 - German energy giant RWE, which has been hit hard by Berlin's decision to phase out nuclear power, said Sunday it was planning for a billion euros (1.3 billion dollars) in new cuts.
Ljubljana (AFP) Feb 4, 2012 - Slovenia's only nuclear power plant reduced output to one third for repair work, the operator said on Saturday.
Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 1, 2012 - A reactor at the San Onofre nuclear power plant near San Diego has been shut down after a radiation leak which was not big enough to cause public harm, the US atomic safety agency said Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - The UN's nuclear watchdog on Tuesday gave its seal of approval to Japan's reactor safety checks, but said utilities should beef up plans for managing disasters in the wake of the Fukushima meltdowns.
Paris (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - Dismantling France's nuclear reactors and storing their radioactive waste will eventually cost around 79 billion euros ($103.5 billion), the national audit office said on Tuesday.
Davis CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2012 - Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 - and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor A
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 29, 2012 - The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said the agency will open a branch office in Fukushima to monitor efforts to contain the world's worst atomic energy accident since Chernobyl, a report said Saturday.
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jan 27, 2012 - Research by a team of Sandia chemists could impact worldwide efforts to produce clean, safe nuclear energy and reduce radioactive waste. The Sandia researchers have used metal-organic framewor
