Paris (AFP) March 8, 2010 - Italy should generate a quarter of its electricity with nuclear power after recently overturning a ban on reactors, the head of energy giant Enel said on Monday at a major conference in Paris.
Paris (AFP) March 8, 2010 - France urged international financial bodies to finance a new era of global nuclear power on Monday and pitched its own reactor technology as the model to follow.
Seoul (AFP) March 7, 2010 - South Korea, which has spent decades developing nuclear power to make up for its lack of oil, now hopes to become a global leader in atomic energy as the world turns away from fossil fuels.
Paris (AFP) March 5, 2010 - Nations hungry for new energy sources gather next week in France, which sees a blooming market for its big nuclear energy companies but is also anxious to curb the spread of atomic weapons.
Today, the Vermont State Senate voted to retire the Vermont Yankee Nuclear plant, owned by the Louisiana based corporation Entergy.
Sofia (AFP) March 2, 2010 - EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on Tuesday backed Bulgarian efforts to find a European investor for a new nuclear plant in Bulgaria that a Russian company has been hired to build.
Vienna (AFP) Feb 28, 2010 - The International Atomic Energy Agency meets to discuss a tough new report on Iran by its new director general Yukiya Amano this week.
Paris (AFP) Feb 25, 2010 - Striking workers are blocking access to nuclear group Areva's principal French production site to press demands for a salary hike, union and company security sources said Thursday.
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 25, 2010 - Iran will study a Japanese offer to enrich uranium for Tehran to allow it access to nuclear power for peaceful purposes, Iran's parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani said Thursday in Tokyo.
Moscow (AFP) Feb 24, 2010 - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday approved a new Russian nuclear power station that has worried ecologists, with officials saying that the first stone would be laid this week.
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Feb 23, 2010 - While in the US the Obama administration has said it will abandon the nuclear waste disposal project at Yucca Mountain and has set up a blue-ribbon commission on America's future management of nuclear waste, in Europe, two countries (Sweden and Finland) have already selected a disposal site for nuclear waste and France will specify a location by 2013.
Vienna (AFP) Feb 23, 2010 - Iran is ready to buy fuel for a nuclear reactor or swap its own stockpile of low-enriched uranium for the fuel, but on its own territory, it said in a letter to the UN atomic watchdog obtained by AFP on Tuesday.
Dubai (AFP) Feb 23, 2010 - Hans Blix, a former UN nuclear watchdog head and chief weapons inspector in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, is to head an advisory board for the United Arab Emirates nuclear programme, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Amman (AFP) Feb 21, 2010 - Energy-poor Jordan on Sunday signed an agreement with France's nuclear giant Areva giving it exclusive uranium mining rights, during a visit by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon.
Sofia (AFP) Feb 19, 2010 - Russia is ready to finance the construction of a new nuclear plant in Bulgaria by up to 2.0 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) until a new strategic investor can be found, officials said here Friday.
San Diego, California (AFP) Feb 19, 2010 - Three European countries will within 15 years begin disposing of their nuclear waste deep underground, even though the public is not solidly behind the move, officials said here Friday.
