Sofia (AFP) Jan 5, 2010 - Bulgaria announced Tuesday that it would close for maintenance one of the two 1,100 megawatt reactors at its sole nuclear power plant at Kozloduy on the Danube.
Tehran (AFP) Jan 3, 2010 - Iran said on Sunday the West has given it until the end of January to accept a uranium swap deal, stressing it will press on with plans to produce higher enriched nuclear fuel if there is no agreement.
Angra Dos Reis, Brazil (AFP) Jan 3, 2010 - Two nuclear plants close to a southern Brazilian town hit by landslides may shut down as a precaution, the mayor said Sunday, as the regional toll from deadly floods rose to 68.
Vilnius (AFP) Dec 31, 2009 - Lithuania Thursday shut down its Soviet-era nuclear plant under an EU deal in a move set to drive up electricity prices amid an economic crisis and leave it counting on ex-master Moscow for power.
Tehran (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 - Iran is ready to swap abroad its low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, the foreign ministry's spokesman said on Tuesday, insisting that the exchange should happen in several stages.
Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Dec 29, 2009 - The nuclear reactor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won't be converted to a safer fuel for at least five years, authorities said.
Paris (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 - The French nuclear power sector is to re-focus its strategy, notably in Britain and the United States, after losing out to a South Korean consortium on a 20.4-billion-dollar project in the United Arab Emirates.
Mumbai (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 - Two people were killed when a fire broke out at a nuclear research centre near India's financial capital Mumbai, but authorities ruled out any radioactive leakage, a report said Tuesday.
Seoul (UPI) Dec 28, 2009 - South Korea won a landmark deal to build nuclear reactors for the United Arab Emirates, boosting calls for lifting Seoul's self-imposed ban on nuclear activities to tap bigger atomic reactor markets.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Dec 27, 2009 - The United Arab Emirates has awarded a 20.4-billion-dollar contract to build four nuclear power plants to a South Korean-led consortium, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation said Sunday.
Brussels (AFP) Dec 22, 2009 - European Union countries on Tuesday agreed to start negotiations with Russia on nuclear energy cooperation, the bloc's executive said.
Beirut (AFP) Dec 21, 2009 - Iran will pursue its nuclear drive in a normal fashion and will produce itself the fuel necessary for its Tehran medical reactor, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday.
Beijing (AFP) Dec 21, 2009 - France and China on Monday hailed their reinvigorated ties, putting a spat over Tibet behind them and sealing a series of economic deals during a visit by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon.
Visaginas, Lithuania (AFP) Dec 20, 2009 - Rising from the flat plain of eastern Lithuania, the two tall red and white chimneys of a nuclear power plant are the symbol of a once-proud Soviet industrial era whose end is looming.
Washington (AFP) Dec 17, 2009 - The United States and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday brought into effect a deal to cooperate in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, hailed as a contrast to Iran's defiant nuclear drive.
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 17, 2009 - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed the United States on Thursday as an oil-addicted warmonger and insisted every nation have access to clean and renewable energy sources, including nuclear.
