Ljubljana (AFP) April 1, 2009 - Slovenia shut down Wednesday its sole nuclear power plant for 30 days of regular maintenance work, nearly a year after an incident there triggered a Europe-wide alert, authorities said.
Bucharest (AFP) April 1, 2009 - Romania has shortlisted four different sites in the country for the construction of a second nuclear power plant by 2020, the outgoing head of its atomic agency said Wednesday.
Budapest (AFP) March 31, 2009 - Planning can start on the extension of Hungary's sole nuclear plant now that parliament has given its green light to the project, Energy Minister Csaba Molnar said Tuesday.
Paris (AFP) March 31, 2009 - Two senior executives at French state energy giant Electricite de France (EDF) have been charged on suspicion of spying on Greenpeace, a judicial official said Tuesday.
Vienna (AFP) March 30, 2009 - The UN atomic watchdog invited its member states Monday to submit new nominations for the post of director general by April 27 after its board failed to agree on a candidate last week.
Havana (AFP) March 30, 2009 - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, opened two days of talks Monday with Cuban officials on technical cooperation, the government said in a statement.
Beijing (AFP) March 30, 2009 - China's energy sector will table a plan to nearly double its 2020 nuclear power capacity goal and is urging firms to acquire uranium abroad to build a fuel reserve, state press said Monday.
London (AFP) March 30, 2009 - The British government on Monday announced it had offered for sale the commercial arm of the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
New Delhi (UPI) Mar 29, 2009 - The United States and India reached an agreement Monday allowing India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from the United States for civilian energy purposes.
Beijing (AFP) March 28, 2009 - Chinese authorities said late Friday they had found potentially deadly radioactive material that went missing from a factory earlier this week, state press reported.
Brussels (AFP) March 28, 2009 - Belgian energy firm Electrabel launched a court challenge against a bid to levy hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) in windfall tax on nuclear power companies, a report said on Saturday.
Siauliai, Lithuania (AFP) March 27, 2009 - Work on a stalled project to build a new nuclear reactor at Lithuania's Ignalina atomic power facility could begin this autumn, the country's president Valdas Adamkus said Friday.
Vienna (AFP) March 27, 2009 - The UN atomic watchdog reopened the race for its new director general on Friday after neither of the two previous candidates won sufficient votes for victory.
Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2009 - Last year's record-high oil prices renewed worldwide interest in alternative forms of energy and gave nuclear power a new lease on life, particularly in countries bereft of hydrocarbon resources. While many in the West think of the former Soviet Union as an energy El Dorado, not all of its republics were blessed with abundant energy reserves.
Washington (AFP) March 27, 2009 - Thirty years after the accident at Three Mile Island shattered Americans' trust in nuclear power, lawmakers are touting a nuclear rebirth as a safe, green way to wean the United States off foreign oil.
Vienna (AFP) March 26, 2009 - The race for the top job at the UN atomic agency remained open after the first three rounds of voting Thursday, with neither of the two candidates able to secure a convincing lead.
