Tokyo (AFP) April 1, 2011 - Japan may inject tax money into troubled Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) to ensure the company stays afloat while grappling with the nation's worst ever nuclear disaster, local media said Friday.
Berlin (AFP) April 1, 2011 - German energy giant RWE filed Friday a legal challenge to the government's order to shut down temporarily the country's seven oldest nuclear reactors in light of the Fukushima crisis in Japan.
Berlin (AFP) March 31, 2011 - German energy group RWE said Thursday it would file a legal challenge to Berlin's decision to shut down one of its nuclear reactors for three months, a move its rival EON has renounced.
Zurich (AFP) March 31, 2011 - A letter bomb exploded at the offices of the Swiss nuclear energy association Thursday, injuring two people, police said.
Sendai, Japan (AFP) March 31, 2011 - Japan said Thursday its crisis-hit nuclear plant must be scrapped, but currently had no plans to evacuate more people, despite calls for a larger exclusion zone around the crippled facility.
Tokyo (AFP) March 31, 2011 - Japan and France pledged Thursday to push for improved international nuclear safety standards as Tokyo struggled to contain an atomic plant disaster caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
Tokyo (AFP) March 31, 2011 - French nuclear group Areva said Thursday it plans to step up its technical assistance to the operator of a Japanese atomic plant crippled by the massive quake and tsunami earlier this month.
Paris (AFP) March 31, 2011 - French authorities are considering delaying the building of a new-generation EPR reactor, the pride of France's nuclear power industry, after Japan's quake-induced fallout alert, they said Thursday.
Zwentendorf, Austria (AFP) March 31, 2011 - Thousands of miles away from the catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan, a mothballed nuclear power station in Austria is attracting a steady stream of visitors.
Canberra, Australia (UPI) Mar 31, 2011 - Australia says it intends to remain a major exporter of uranium for nuclear power plants despite the nuclear emergency at Japan's Fukushima reactors.
Osaka (AFP) March 30, 2011 - Shares in Tokyo Electric Power tumbled again on Wednesday as the company at the centre of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986 said its under-fire president had been hospitalised.
New Delhi (UPI) Mar 30, 2011 - In the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has proposed an independent nuclear regulator for his country.
Sofia (AFP) March 30, 2011 - Hundreds of people joined an anti-nuclear protest in Sofia on Wednesday, calling for the government to drop plans for a new Russia-backed nuclear plant after the radiation disaster in Japan.
Hong Kong (AFP) March 30, 2011 - A group of Hong Kong lawmakers, academics and environmentalists said Wednesday they will monitor an atomic plant in mainland China following the ongoing nuclear crisis in a quake-hit Japan.
Paris (AFP) March 30, 2011 - French nuclear security has not yet taken into account the kind of accumulation of natural catastrophes that led to Japan's atomic disaster, the head of the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said Wednesday.
Osaka (AFP) March 29, 2011 - Japan on Tuesday said nationalising the beleaguered operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was an option but denied it had immediate plans to do so.
