Helsinki (AFP) April 29, 2011 - The results of stress tests on European nuclear power plants should be clear by the end of the year, EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger said in Helsinki Friday.
Sakhri Nate, India (AFP) April 29, 2011 - In the busy Indian fishing village of Sakhri Nate, it's obvious what the locals think of the plan to build the world's biggest nuclear power plant just across the creek.
Washington (AFP) April 28, 2011 - US officials were Thursday monitoring a nuclear plant in the southern state of Alabama that lost power amid severe storms that swept through the region.
Hong Kong (AFP) April 28, 2011 - A global warming target could be missed three times over if countries fail to promote clean energy, the International Energy Agency warned Thursday, amid a possible slowdown in atomic power growth.
Vilnius (AFP) April 28, 2011 - Lithuania on Thursday stepped up pressure on neighbour Russia over plans to build a nuclear power plant near the Baltic state, insisting its safety concerns had not been met.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2011 - Design techniques honed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for Mars rovers were used to create the rover currently examining the inside of Japan's nuclear reactors, in areas no
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 28, 2011 - Even before the disaster in Fukushima, the world's nuclear industry was in clear decline, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute. The report, which Worldwatch commissioned months be
Angra Dos Reis, Brazil (AFP) April 27, 2011 - Brazil's Angra dos Reis bay is a tropical paradise that attracts droves of tourists each year. But it is also sharply in focus as the home of the nation's only nuclear power plant.
Stockholm (AFP) April 27, 2011 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he wanted to enhance Sweden's nuclear safety with Russian technology, which he described as the safest in the world.
Bucharest (AFP) April 27, 2011 - Romania wants to attract private investors to modernise its road infrastructure and to build two new reactors at the Cernavoda nuclear plant, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) April 27, 2011 - A woman working at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant received radiation at over three times the legal limit for females over a three-month period, the plant's operator said Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) April 27, 2011 - The company which operates Japan's crippled nuclear plant has an aversion to change that left it ill-equipped to handle the crisis, the prime minister's special advisor on the disaster said Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) April 26, 2011 - Hundreds of angry Japanese farmers protested Tuesday outside the Tokyo head office of nuclear plant operator TEPCO, taking with them vegetables, milk and and even two cows affected by the atomic crisis.
Tokyo (UPI) Apr 26, 2011 - Backup generators at many Japanese nuclear power plants lack capacity to keep reactor cores cool if another earthquake or tsunami were to strike, sources say.
Kiev (AFP) April 26, 2011 - The world on Tuesday marks a quarter century since the world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, haunted by fears over the safety of atomic energy after the Japan earthquake.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2011 - Plans for a nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico were initially opposed in the late 1980s by a 2-1 margin but a new analysis of 35 statewide public opinion surveys taken over a decade sho
