Geneva (AFP) Oct 5, 2010 - Environmental group Greenpeace sharply criticised Swiss power stations Tuesday for using nuclear fuel from a Russian reprocessing centre at Mayak, claiming it was one of the world's most polluted.
Tehran (AFP) Oct 4, 2010 - Iran's atomic chief has said a small leak in a pool beside the Bushehr reactor has delayed the start-up of the nuclear plant, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
Johannesburg (AFP) Oct 3, 2010 - South Africa said Sunday it would not sign an agreement with South Korea to design and build nuclear power plants in the African country, dismissing an earlier report, the foreign ministry said.
Berlin (AFP) Oct 3, 2010 - Germany's resurgent Green party is setting records in the opinion polls and being tentatively courted by unlikely new suitors: industry types who long saw the environmentalists as adversaries.
Yerevan (AFP) Oct 3, 2010 - A short drive from the Armenian capital, the enormous cooling towers of the Metzamor nuclear power station sit in a seismic zone that has suffered one of the worst earthquakes in modern history.
Palm Desert CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2010 - Solar Energy is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with an arms'-length vendor by which the Company can earn a 100% interest in the West Carswell Property (the Property).
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2010 - The same industry that promised that nuclear power would be too cheap to meter is now touting another supposed cure-all for America's power needs: the small modular reactor (SMR).
Berlin (UPI) Oct 1, 2010 - German Cabinet ministers and opposition leaders Friday in parliament exchanged heavy blows over the government's new energy strategy.
Berlin (UPI) Sep 28, 2010 - Chernobyl-like disasters at Germany's most vulnerable reactors could render parts of the country uninhabitable for decades, Greenpeace has warned.
Niamey, Niger (UPI) Sep 24, 2010 - Suddenly, the uranium mining industry is becoming a risky business, it seems.
Moscow (UPI) Sep 22, 2010 - Russia and Kuwait have signed a five-year nuclear cooperation agreement.
Berlin (UPI) Sep 20, 2010 - Tens of thousands of anti-nuclear activists took to the streets in Berlin over the weekend to protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plan to extend the lifespan of nuclear power in the country by at least a decade.
Washington (UPI) Sep 17, 2010 - Nuclear power use is growing worldwide but the high costs of setting up plants, disposing of waste and worries over abuse are holding back expansion, a new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said.
Buenos Aires (UPI) Sep 17, 2010 - Argentina is moving forward with a long-term strategy to expand its nuclear program that includes the building of a new plant and refurbishment of existing heavy-water reactors.
South Royalton VT (SPX) Sep 14, 2010 - The so-called French nuclear miracle embraced by some U.S. policymakers as a model for this nation is a misconception masking a pattern of fast-rising nuclear reactor construction costs and a crowding out of investments in renewable energy, such as wind, solar and hydro-electric power, according to a new study by Vermont Law School's Institute for Energy and the Environment.
Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 14, 2010 - USEC has announced that the Megatons to Megawatts program has eliminated the equivalent of 16,000 nuclear warheads by recycling 400 metric tons of weapons-grade uranium from Russia into low enriched uranium used as fuel in commercial nuclear power plants.
