Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Sept 15, 2011 - Brazil is planning to expand its nuclear energy output by building five more reactors to augment the two currently in operation, Energy Minister Edison Lobao said Thursday.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 9, 2022 - A blackout caused by fresh shelling near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has compromised the site's safety, the UN atomic watchdog warned Friday, adding the plant's operator is considering shutting down the sole remaining reactor.
Brussels (AFP) Sept 23, 2022 - Belgium on Friday will push through with a decades-old plan to shut down a nuclear reactor despite calls for a rethink given fears of power blackouts this winter.
Druskininkai, Lithuania (AFP) Sept 2, 2008 - Belarus plans to build a new nuclear power plant by 2015 that could possibly export energy to neighbour Lithuanuia, Belarus Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky said Tuesday in Lithuania.
Dhaka (AFP) Sept 10, 2007 - Bangladesh's emergency government has sought Russian assistance to build a nuclear power plant to meet electricity shortages that have sparked riots and hit the country's economy.
Dhaka (AFP) Sept 24, 2007 - Bangladesh plans to set up its first nuclear power plant at a cost of over one billion dollars to ease economically damaging electricity shortages which have sparked riots, an official said Monday.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 17, 2011 - Austrian politicians reacted angrily to reported plans by the Czech Republic to vastly increase its nuclear energy to account for 80 percent of its electricity production.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 24, 2014 - Austria will launch a legal challenge if the European Commission approves Britain's ambitious plan to build its first new nuclear plant in a generation, Vienna's environment minister said Wednesday.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 5, 2018 - Austria said Wednesday it would appeal an EU court's dismissal of its case against Europe-approved, British subsidies for a new nuclear power plant in England.
Sydney (AFP) Sept 4, 2007 - Russia has adequate safety standards for handling nuclear materials and there is no need to fear a proposed deal to supply uranium, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Tuesday.
Sydney (AFP) Sept 02, 2014 - Australia is satisfied with the safeguards India has in place to allow the export of uranium to the nuclear-armed nation, Trade Minister Andrew Robb said Tuesday.
Canberra (AFP) Sept 1, 2008 - Australia is reconsidering a pact to sell uranium to Russia following its military push into Georgia, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith warned on Monday.
Canberra (AFP) Sept 12, 2008 - Australia's foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Friday shot down claims that China is pressing Canberra not to supply Beijing's rival India with uranium for nuclear fuel.
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 05, 2014 - Conservative leaders Tony Abbott and Narendra Modi sealed a long-awaited nuclear energy deal on Friday, paving the way for Australia to sell uranium to India, crippled by power shortages and blackouts.
Yerevan (AFP) Sept 13, 2013 - Armenia said Friday it would extend the life of its ageing Metsamor nuclear power plant, despite safety concerns over the Soviet-era facility in an active seismic zone.
Yerevan (AFP) Sept 8, 2008 - Armenia has shut down its Metzamor nuclear power station for 85-day renovation works and refueling, the station's chief engineer told AFP Monday.
