Berlin (UPI) Feb 11, 2011 - Swedish utility Vattenfall might not restart its error-prone reactor in Brunsbuettel, near Hamburg, because modernizing it might prove too costly, Vattenfall Chief Executive Officer Oystein Loseth said.
Vienna (AFP) Feb 9, 2011 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is this week hosting a meeting for countries considering developing their own nuclear power programmes as a way of helping mitigate the impact of climate change.
Moscow (AFP) Feb 8, 2011 - Russia is considering pulling out of a project to build a 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bulgaria due to persistent delays, Russian daily Kommersant reported Tuesday.
Stockholm (AFP) Feb 2, 2011 - Swedish authorities on Wednesday kicked off the country's largest-ever crisis management exercise on what to do in the event of an accident at one of its nuclear plants.
Washington (UPI) Feb 2, 2011 - Scientists testing for radiation at a South Carolina site where materials were refined for U.S. nuclear weapons say they're looking at the area's animals.
Beijing (UPI) Jan 26, 2011 - China is likely to boost its 2020 target nuclear power capacity by 5 percent - 86 gigawatts - representing an annual investment of at least $10.6 billion, officials said.
Warsaw (AFP) Jan 25, 2011 - Poland hopes to attract 25.8 billion euros (35 billion dollars) in investment in a new nuclear energy sector over the next 20 years, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday.
Ankara (AFP) Jan 24, 2011 - Possible talks with France over the construction of a nuclear power plant in Turkey will include political considerations, Turkey's energy minister said Monday.
Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2011 - A subsidiary of the French nuclear giant Areva said Monday it had received US clearance to begin a clinical trial of an isotope that targets cancer cells.
Seattle (UPI) Jan 23, 2011 - A costly U.S. environmental project, meant to deal with millions of gallons of nuclear waste, is over budget and faces technical and safety issues, critics say.
The Hague (AFP) Jan 21, 2011 - The Dutch Supreme Court placed an interim freeze Friday on plans to transfer a 50 percent stake in the Netherlands' sole nuclear power station, fully state-owned, to German energy company RWE.
Moscow (AFP) Jan 20, 2011 - Russia said Thursday that it will extend Belarus a loan that will help the former Soviet republic build its first nuclear power plant since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2011 - A top US lawmaker condemned a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia as potentially dangerous Thursday and vowed to introduce legislation to require congressional approval of such pacts.
Rome (AFP) Jan 12, 2011 - Italy can hold a referendum on the planned re-introduction of nuclear power after a ban introduced by a 1987 vote following the Chernobyl disaster, the Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday.
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 10, 2011 - Japan's trade minister has expressed interest in cooperating with Iraq on nuclear energy, the Iraqi interim electricity minister said on Monday after talks in Baghdad.
Moscow (AFP) Jan 8, 2011 - The Russian president on Saturday ratified a civil nuclear energy pact with Japan that allows the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the sale of more Russian uranium to energy-poor Japan. President Dmitry Medvedev ratified the pact after it was passed by the lower and upper houses of the Russian parliament in December last year, the Kremlin said in a statement on its website.
