London (AFP) May 3, 2011 - British police arrested five men under anti-terrorism legislation close to a nuclear plant, but said Tuesday the case appeared to be unconnected to the death of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Paris (AFP) May 2, 2011 - The head of the Japanese employers' federation on Monday defended Tepco, owner of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, saying the state and not the company should compensate disaster victims.
Paris (AFP) May 2, 2011 - French nuclear group Areva on Monday reported a 2.2 percent increase in first-quarter sales to 1.98 billion euros ($2.9 billion) and said it was reviewing its 2011 and 2012 forecasts in light of Japan's nuclear energy disaster.
Tokyo (AFP) May 1, 2011 - Japan's left-leaning labour confederations on Sunday called for an end to nuclear power generation, in May Day rallies held as emergency workers toiled to bring a quake-hit nuclear plant under control.
Taipei (AFP) April 30, 2011 - Thousands of Taiwanese took to the streets on Saturday to protest against a new nuclear power station as safety concerns mounted in the wake of the atomic crisis in Japan, an organiser said.
Moscow (AFP) April 30, 2011 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticised Japan's nuclear industry on Saturday, questioning the building of plants in seismic zones and its response to the Fukushima disaster.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
