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.
European Union countries on Tuesday agreed to start negotiations with Russia on nuclear energy cooperation, the bloc's executive said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Environmental organisation Greenpeace on Wednesday slammed Slovenia's plans to build a second reactor at its nuclear power plant in Krsko, where an incident triggered a Europe-wide alert last year.
Vietnam and Russia signed a major arms deal and a nuclear energy agreement on Tuesday, in a sign of reviving ties between Moscow and its former Soviet-era ally in Southeast Asia.
The new head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, on Monday held talks here on future cooperation with Nigeria, which plans to build its first nuclear power plant with Russian assistance.
Iran said on Monday it does not insist on exchanging its low-enriched uranium for fuel for a research nuclear reactor on its own territory after the United States bluntly dismissed the offer.
Russian investors are ready to take part in Bulgaria's nuclear plant project in Belene following the withdrawal of German utility RWE, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said Friday.
The first official visit by the new head of the UN atomic watchdog, Yukiya Amano, will be to Nigeria next week, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced on Friday.
Lithuania formally began the hunt Tuesday for investors to build and run a new nuclear power station in the Baltic state that would replace a crucial Soviet-era plant due to close within weeks.
India and Russia signed deals on nuclear energy and arms sales on Monday as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks in the Kremlin with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
South Korea on Friday hailed its first export of an atomic reactor, saying the deal with Jordan would spur future overseas sales of nuclear technology.
