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.
Ankara (AFP) Jan 7, 2011 - Turkey is in preliminary talks with France for the construction of a nuclear power plant but Japan has the priority, Anatolia news agency quoted Turkey's energy minister as saying on Friday.
Taipei (AFP) Jan 7, 2011 - The opening of a controversial new nuclear power plant in Taiwan that has already far exceeded its budget has been put back for months at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, its operator said Friday.
Tehran (XNA) Jan 05, 2011 - Iran's interim Foreign Minister Ali- Akbar Salehi rejected claims that the launch of Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr would be delayed again and the plant's connection to national power g
Beijing (UPI) Jan 5, 2011 - Scientists in China have developed nuclear fuel reprocessing technology that would extend the life of the country's uranium deposits from 70 to 3,000 years, Chinese state media said.
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jan 04, 2011 - Members of the engineering faculty at Oregon State University have invented a new type of radiation detection and measurement device that will be particularly useful for cleanup of sites with radioa
Beijing (AFP) Jan 3, 2011 - Chinese scientists say they have developed nuclear fuel reprocessing technology that could effectively end uranium supply concerns, state media said Monday, as Beijing strives for energy security.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 3, 2011 - Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in nuclear fuel reprocessing technology that could effectively end any uranium supply concerns, state media reported on Monday.
Washington (AFP) Dec 31, 2010 - The United States has helped Ukraine remove 50 kilos (111 pounds) of highly enriched uranium from three Ukrainian sites to be disposed of in Russia, US officials announced Friday.
Washington (AFP) Dec 30, 2010 - Time may be running out for French energy giant EDF to gain a stronger foothold in the US nuclear sector, after it rejected a government loan deal for a new reactor and lost its local partner.
Riyadh (AFP) Dec 28, 2010 - Moscow and Riyadh are locked in talks to sign a framework agreement on peaceful nuclear cooperation, a local daily reported on Tuesday quoting the Russian ambassador to the kingdom.
