Hiccups at an ageing nuclear reactor has enlivened Germany's election campaign, potentially giving the centre-left the chance to chip away at Chancellor Angela Merkel's commanding lead in the polls.
The Swedish operator of the aging German nuclear power station Kruemmel revealed on Thursday more problems at the plant, which has been shut down for emergency repairs since the weekend.
On May 18, 2009 the first floating nuclear power plant was set up in St. Petersburg (Russia). The contract, signed by OPK and "Concern Energoatom"…
Tension is shaping up over pressure from EDF, the world's biggest nuclear power producer, for a price leap for French households amidst big developments in France's vital nuclear power industry.
Sweden's nuclear safety authority has put the country's biggest nuclear power plant under observation after a series of incidents that could endanger security, it said on Wednesday.
South Korea aims to push to expand "peaceful and commercial" use of nuclear energy in upcoming talks with the United States aimed at revising a nuclear pact signed in 1974, an official said Monday.
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak Tuesday signalled Korean firms were keen to build Poland's first atomic reactor and liquefied natural gas terminal, projects key to its energy diversification bid.
Nuclear plants that France built after the oil shocks of 1970s are in good overall shape and have a strong chance of gaining approval for extending their operations for a fourth decade, the nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday.
The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) has issued a key approval for a proposed new nuclear energy facility at Calvert Cliffs in southern Maryland, a…
McDermott International has announced that a subsidiary of The Babcock and Wilcox Company ("B and W") has been awarded a contract to downblend over…
An incident at an error-prone German nuclear reactor has refueled the debate over the country's future energy mix.
South Korea's state-run power company has bought a 17-percent stake in a Canadian uranium producer, securing a stable source of fuel for its nuclear power plants, a report said Sunday.
Hundreds of traffic lights in the German city of Hamburg stopped working Saturday after a power cut caused by an incident at a nuclear power station, an energy company said.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday welcomed the appointment of Japan's Yukiya Amano as the new head of the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog.
Serbia, home to a reactor once deemed the world's most dangerous, reached an agreement Friday on nuclear energy cooperation with the United Nations atomic agency, a report said.
Spain's government said Thursday it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power.
