Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday dismissed angry calls by German business leaders to scrap a planned tax on nuclear energy production which they call a threat to investment.
A defiant Iran on Saturday began loading fuel into its Russian-built first nuclear power plant in the face of stiff opposition from world powers to its controversial atomic programme.
Russia and Armenia signed an agreement Friday on the construction of a new reactor unit for the ex-Soviet republic's controversial Soviet-era Metzamor nuclear power station.
Iran's first nuclear plant, scheduled to go online this weekend, is not a major proliferation risk, despite international concerns about the nature of Tehran's atomic programme, experts said Friday.
India's cabinet on Friday approved a long-delayed draft law aimed at opening up its civilian nuclear power industry to private investment, particularly from US companies, reports said.
Scientists studying wildlife in the Chernobyl region say DNA may be the key to which species are most likely to be damaged by radioactive contamination.
Iran's civilian nuclear program continues to unsettle the country's diplomatic relations.
India's cabinet was expected Friday to discuss changing a bill on its civilian nuclear power industry, to increase the liability of foreign-reactor suppliers in the case of an accident.
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In a negotiation war with the German government that could drag on for at least two more weeks, the country's utilities have threatened to shut down some of their nuclear reactors if a fuel-rod tax goes into effect as planned.
A renewed federal effort to fix the nation's stalled nuclear waste program is focusing so much on technological issues that it fails to address the public mistrust hampering storage and disposal efforts.
Energy firms in Germany have threatened to switch off the country's nuclear power stations if Berlin presses ahead with plans for a tax on fuel rods, Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday.
Shifting winds brought the acrid smell of smog briefly back to Moscow on Sunday and fires burned near Russia's main nuclear research centre as residents complained of ash in the air in central Russia.
Russia's nuclear energy agency Rosatom said Thursday it will launch Iran's first nuclear power plant next week after years of delay.
Planning to open its first nuclear power plant in 2022, Poland on Friday signed an agreement with South Korea on bilateral co-operation on atomic energy, a Polish government statement said.
British scientists are calling for a nuclear power "renaissance" in a 20-year master plan proposing global expansion of the industry.
