Turkey's energy minister highlighted Wednesday problems in a tender won by a Russian company to build the country's first nuclear power plant amid media reports that Ankara could cancel the project.
India, whose nuclear pariah status ended last year, could obtain 50 percent of its power from atomic energy by 2050, the country's nuclear chief said in an interview published Wednesday.
Russia's state-owned nuclear energy giant Rosatom is buying Germany's Nukem Technologies, a specialist in decommissioning nuclear power stations, a Nukem spokeswoman said Tuesday.
China has sacked a top nuclear power official, state press said Friday, after reports he was being investigated for allegedly squandering public funds and taking bribes of up to 260 million dollars.
A Canadian reactor that produced one-third of the world's supply of medical isotopes before it closed in May for repairs will remain offline at least until early 2010, nuclear authorities said Thursday.
A senior US official acknowledged on Wednesday that the growing demand for atomic energy in response to climate change was adding to the challenges of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
Poland will build its first nuclear power plant by 2020 to bolster the energy security of the EU member, Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak said Tuesday.
The Turkish state could take as much as a 25 percent stake in a planned nuclear power plant project if the Russian-led consortium competing for the contract lowers its price, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Friday.
China's nuclear chief is the latest in a string of high-level officials snared in a crackdown on graft which Friday saw the execution of the former head of the firm that owns Beijing airport.
Lithuania on Thursday sought to reassure its partners in a four-nation nuclear power project that the slow-moving effort is still on course and that a key hurdle will be cleared next month.
A top official in charge of China's civilian and military nuclear programmes has been placed under investigation, state media said Wednesday, in what appeared to be another case of high-level graft.
Energy groups EDF and Enel said on Monday they were joining up to develop third-generation nuclear reactors for Italy as Italian authorities prepare to end a…
Czech state-run power giant CEZ said on Monday it had opened a tender for the supply of two new units for the Temelin nuclear power station in southern Czech Republic.
Libya and Canada have signed a memorandum of intent on nuclear power, the fourth signed by Tripoli in the past two years, an official said on Thursday.
Two generators at Russia's Kola nuclear power plant near Murmansk, in the far northwest, were shut down due to a fault in the anti-fire system, energy group Energoatom said Wednesday.
Jordan is forging ahead with a peaceful nuclear programme that would turn the energy-poor kingdom into an exporter of electricity, nuclear chief Khaled Tukan told AFP.
