Milan (AFP) Nov 5, 2009 - Italy's development minister on Thursday played down safety concerns over leading-edge nuclear reactors that Rome plans to import as it relaunches its long mothballed atomic energy programme.
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 5, 2009 - A Japanese nuclear power plant on Thursday started using recycled mixed-oxide or MOX fuel from a controversial shipment from France that arrived in the country amid protests in May.
Paris (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Safety fears and threats of winter power cuts have taken some of the shine off France's world-beating nuclear industry, the country's main source of power and a key plank in its foreign trade strategy.
Paris (AFP) Nov 2, 2009 - Almost a third of France's 58 nuclear reactors were off line Monday due to a maintenance and refuelling backlog, as power bosses warned they would have to import massive amounts of energy.
Tehran (AFP) Nov 2, 2009 - Iran said on Monday it wants a review of the UN-brokered nuclear fuel deal, indicating it prefers to purchase the supplies directly rather than sending its own uranium abroad.
Paris (AFP) Nov 2, 2009 - Nuclear regulators in France, Britain and Finland said Monday they have told French nuclear giant Areva and its foreign partners to correct a safety design flaw on its latest-generation EPR reactor.
London, UK (SPX) Nov 02, 2009 - Who could have imagined at the first PATRAM Symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1965 that nearly a half century later we would be preparing for PATRAM number sixteen! By the way, records suggest there is only one person who has participated in every PATRAM symposium up to and including Miami in 2007 - now there is a record to be beaten!
Tehran (AFP) Nov 1, 2009 - Russia's envoy to Tehran on Sunday urged Iran to sign on to a UN-drafted nuclear fuel deal in a bid to resolve the controversy over its atomic drive, which he said lacks complete transparency.
Sofia (AFP) Oct 30, 2009 - Bulgaria is seeking new investors for its nuclear plant project in Belene following the withdrawal of German utility RWE, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said in an interview Friday.
Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2009 - The French government is raising doubts about the purchase of half of US nuclear energy company Constellation by state-controlled French operator EDF, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2009 - The US state of Maryland on Friday approved a plan for France' EDF Group to take a stake in Constellation Energy Group, clearing the final hurdle for a new nuclear power plant in the state.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 28, 2009 - China has given final approval for the construction of a nuclear power plant with two powerful French-built reactors in southern Guangdong province, French power operator EDF announced Wednesday.
Sofia (AFP) Oct 28, 2009 - German utility firm RWE is pulling out of Bulgaria's nuclear plant project in Belene, in which it was to hold 49 percent, the government in Sofia announced on Wednesday.
Yerevan (AFP) Oct 27, 2009 - Armenia's parliament on Tuesday approved plans for the construction of a new reactor unit at the ex-Soviet republic's controversial Metzamor nuclear power station.
Sofia (AFP) Oct 27, 2009 - Bulgaria welcomed a proposal by the European commission Tuesday to give it an additional 300 million euros (446 million dollars) to help dismantle obsolete reactors at its Kozloduy nuclear plant.
Paris (AFP) Oct 26, 2009 - French construction group Eiffage and British peer Carillion have signed a partnership agreement under which they will jointly bid to build nuclear power plants in Britain, Eiffage said Monday.
