Moscow (AFP) June 27, 2011 - Iran's first nuclear power plant is set to start up in early August, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday.
Paris (AFP) June 27, 2011 - France will invest one billion euros ($1.4 billion) in future nuclear power development while boosting research into security, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 27, 2011 - The People's Republic of China should improve its system for ensuring the safety of its rapidly expanding nuclear power program, experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say. Despite havin
Tokyo (AFP) June 26, 2011 - Japan began a campaign Sunday to convince communities hosting nuclear reactors to let operations resume, with several local governments blocking nuclear power generation after the atomic crisis in Fukushima.
Vilnius (AFP) June 23, 2011 - US group Westinghouse presented its bid Thursday to build a nuclear power station in Lithuania to replace a Soviet-era plant, closed in 2009.
Washington (AFP) June 23, 2011 - India's commerce minister called Thursday for more cooperation with the United States on nuclear energy and brushed aside talk of scrapping ambitious plans in the wake of Japan's Fukushima crisis.
Paris (AFP) June 22, 2011 - A technical problem forced the closure of a reactor at the Gravelines nuclear plant in northern France for several hours, a spokesman for the French energy group EDF said Wednesday.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 21, 2011 - Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it will begin shipping nuclear fuel to the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Watts Bar site for use in the Unit 2 reactor. TVA recently receiv
Olkiluoto, Finland (AFP) June 21, 2011 - More than 5,000 hard-hat workers swarm over a sprawling nuclear facility in western Finland to build OL3 - touted as the safest nuclear reactor in the world - a claim which has come under scrutiny following Japan's nuclear disaster.
Seoul (AFP) June 20, 2011 - Nuclear power is still a viable source of global energy despite the crisis in Japan, the OECD chief said Monday.
Tokyo (AFP) June 19, 2011 - More than four out of five Japanese want to see Tokyo abandon nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima atomic crisis, a survey said Sunday.
Tehran (AFP) June 19, 2011 - Iran's first nuclear power plant, built by Russia, is to be connected to the national grid in early August, the Iranian ambassador to Moscow, Reza Sajjadi, said in media reports on Sunday.
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 17, 2011 - Even as Germany, Japan, Switzerland and other nations move to abandon existing and planned nuclear reactors, the United States is on a path to see at best only a small handful of already planned, go
Seoul (AFP) June 17, 2011 - Greenpeace urged South Korea Friday to shut down its oldest nuclear reactor, expressing concern about its safety and drawing a parallel with a disaster-stricken reactor in Japan.
Tokyo (AFP) June 17, 2011 - Emergency crews at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant Friday started decontaminating more than 100,000 tonnes of highly radioactive water from three months of reactor cooling operations.
Tokyo (AFP) June 17, 2011 - Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on a visit to disaster-hit Japan Friday voiced reservations about plans to build a nuclear power plant in his country, media reports said.
