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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rome (AFP) April 26, 2011 - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday talked up nuclear power as the safest form of energy on the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl amid fears linked to the disaster in Japan.
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
Berlin (AFP) April 25, 2011 - More than 100,000 demonstrators staged nationwide protests in Germany on Monday calling for an end to nuclear power as part of the traditional Easter March, organisers said.
Tokyo (AFP) April 25, 2011 - The operator of Japan's stricken nuclear power plant said Monday it will halve the yearly salaries of its board members as it seeks to absorb the financial hit from the ongoing atomic crisis.
Berlin (UPI) Apr 25, 2011 - If Germany drops nuclear power as a source of energy, it could mean a hefty bill for power consumers, experts have warned.
Strasbourg, France (AFP) April 25, 2011 - Anti-nuclear protests were to be held along the Franco-German border Monday, on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima.
Strasbourg, France (AFP) April 25, 2011 - Around 700 anti-nuclear protesters staged a die in on a bridge on the Franco-German border Monday, on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl and after Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident.
Tokyo (AFP) April 24, 2011 - Thousands of people marched in Tokyo Sunday to demand an end to nuclear power in Japan and a switch to alternative energy after the crisis at an atomic plant hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Kozloduy, Bulgaria (AFP) April 24, 2011 - Bulgaria's sole nuclear plant at Kozloduy, spotlighted in the 1990s over safety issues, is looking forward to European stress tests, following Japan's nuclear disaster.
Paris (AFP) April 22, 2011 - Some 90 million people worldwide live within 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) of a nuclear reactor, equivalent to the exclusion zone around Japan's crippled Fukushima plant, a study released Friday shows.
Tokyo (AFP) April 22, 2011 - Japan will review its energy policy in light of the Fukushima atomic plant disaster but will stick with nuclear power, the secretary general of the centre-left ruling party said Friday.
