President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday repeated his call for France to keep nuclear power, accusing the political left of stalling progress by campaigning to reduce reliance on atomic energy.
The French state will not accept job cuts due to the economic slowdown at firms in which it has a stake , Finance Minister Francois Baroin said Tuesday after reports of lay-offs at nuclear energy giant Areva.
Energy-hungry India will consider acquiring Australian uranium mining assets if a controversial ban on exports to the nuclear power is lifted, a report said Tuesday.
France's nuclear giant Areva will cut at least 2,700 jobs and slash planned investments by 40 percent to generate at least 500 million euros in savings per year by 2013, sources told AFP Monday.
France's nuclear giant Areva will cut 1,300 jobs in Germany and close down two of its sites after Berlin's decision to abandon nuclear energy, news weekly Der Spiegel reported on Sunday.
Most Arab states have shrugged off the political and environmental fallout from the March 11 Fukushima disaster in Japan and are pushing ahead with nuclear energy programs.
Assuming Japan doesn't build any new nuclear reactors by 2035, it could face rising economic costs and risks to its energy security, the International Energy Agency says.
France must immediately improve safety at its nuclear power plants so they can deal with natural disasters in the wake of Japan's Fukushima accident, an industry body said Thursday.
President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Thursday that abandoning nuclear power would cause "considerable damage" to France after his opponents vowed to campaign to reduce the country's reliance on atomic energy.
France's long-held support for nuclear energy emerged as a key issue in next year's elections Wednesday as the opposition Socialists and Greens agreed to joint efforts to reduce reliance on atomic power.
OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement with South Korea on developing nuclear power generation to help meet the kingdom's rising demand, an official statement said on Tuesday.
The good news is that on 8 November the International Energy Agency released its 2011 "World Energy Outlook." While it will cheer nuclear advocates, overall the report makes for grim reading.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard moved Tuesday to lift Australia's controversial ban on uranium sales to nuclear power India in a bid to strengthen relations with the fast-growing economic powerhouse.
EON, Germany's biggest power supplier, is filing a complaint with Germany's highest court, demanding compensation for the government's decision to abandon nuclear energy, a spokesman said Monday.
Six parties negotiating a budget for Belgium have agreed to pay the country's nuclear sector -- essentially Electrabel -- an annual stipend of 550 million euros, Belgian media reported Monday.
Switzerland's energy group Axpo said Saturday it was stopping taking uranium fuel from Russia's Majak reprocessing plant because it lacked information about conditions there.
