Ukraine pledged Monday to dispose of its stocks of highly enriched uranium by 2012, as the United States vowed to work with the nation still haunted by the Chernobyl accident over two decades ago.
In a strange twist of Cold War enmity on the melt, uranium from what once were Russian nuclear warheads is used to heat and light American homes, thanks to the Megatons to Megawatts Program -- a successful example of nuclear non-proliferation.
France and Italy on Friday agreed to cooperate more closely to increase nuclear power generation and vowed to come to the aid of debt-laden Greece in order to defend the euro.
A shipment of 15 tonnes of combustible MOX, a blend of plutonium and reprocessed uranium, left the French port of Cherbourg on Thursday for Japan, French nuclear group Areva said.
The U.K. nuclear industry is being launched, with Germany's Eon and RWE unveiling plans for their first two plants, and France's EDF announcing the hiring of 10,000 new staff to back up its British expansion.
Russia has agreed to help Venezuela set up a nuclear power plant for the "post-oil" era, President Hugo Chavez said as the two countries deepened military, energy and financial ties.
Belgian police on Saturday detained hundreds of anti-nuclear activists protesting in and outside a military base where nuclear weapons are believed to be stored, rally organisers said.
The United States and Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding this week for cooperation in the nuclear power sector.
More than 20,000 Lithuanians have signed an electronic petition to the government against the planned construction of a nuclear power station in neighbouring Belarus, organisers said Thursday.
A South Korean consortium led by state-run Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute and Daewoo Engineering and Construction Company has struck a $130 million deal to build a nuclear research reactor in Jordan.
Vietnam and the United States signed a pact on Tuesday described as a key foundation for development of peaceful atomic power in the communist country.
A South Korean consortium signed an agreement on Tuesday to build Jordan's first nuclear reactor in a project worth 130 million dollars, state media in the Arab kingdom reported.
The United States and India said Monday they have reached an agreement on reprocessing nuclear material, clearing a major hurdle in putting into operation a landmark atomic energy pact.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Russia signed an agreement on Monday to set up a centre in Siberia that will sell nuclear fuel to countries that want it, the agency said.
North Korea will build a light water nuclear power plant "in the near future", its official news agency said Monday, also taking a swipe at speculation about the health of leader Kim Jong-Il.
A majority of people in Finland, which is hosting one of the world's first new-generation nuclear power plants, want their country to stop building new atomic reactors, a poll showed Monday.
