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.
Paris (AFP) March 25, 2009 - Frederic Lemoine, the chairman at French nuclear energy group Areva, has tendered his resignation after accepting a position at another major French group, an internal document showed Wednesday.
Vienna (AFP) March 25, 2009 - The UN atomic watchdog convenes Thursday for a special two-day meeting to choose who will replace Mohamed ElBaradei as its chief when he steps down in November.
Paris (AFP) March 24, 2009 - France said Tuesday it will compensate victims of nuclear testing carried out in French Polynesia and Algeria, after decades of denying its responsibility.
Tokyo (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 - Japan's Toshiba and TerraPower, a company backed by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, are in talks about a nuclear power venture.
Vilnius (AFP) March 24, 2009 - Five years since they joined the European Union, the bloc's Baltic states are still barely plugged into its electricity network and remain hooked to the grid of their Soviet-era master Moscow.
Istanbul, Turkey (UPI) Mar 23, 2009 - One of the more interesting aspects of the Fifth World Water Forum currently under way in Istanbul has been the presence of environmental groups, whose agendas are frequently in conflict with some of the governments and multinational companies in attendance. The divergence of opinions goes far beyond water as a human right and environmentally friendly policies to such issues as energy, progress and at what cost.
Stockholm (AFP) March 22, 2009 - Leaders of Sweden's opposition party on Sunday pledged to phase out nuclear power if they win the 2010 elections, just weeks after the government backed to keep the country's 10 reactors running.
Niamey (AFP) March 20, 2009 - A South Korean state-run firm Korea Resources Corporation (KORES) has signed a memorandum of understanding to import annually some 400 tonnes of uranium from Niger, its chief said on Thursday.
Moscow (AFP) March 19, 2009 - A giant Russian nuclear energy firm, Atomenergoprom, may help build a uranium enrichment plant in Japan in a joint venture with Toshiba, the Russian company said in a statement Thursday.
Tokyo (AFP) March 18, 2009 - A court in Japan Wednesday ruled that the country's second largest nuclear power plant meets earthquake safety standards and can legally operate, backing the government over a residents' group.
Jakarta (UPI) Mar 17, 2009 - Indonesia's House of Representatives gave a green light to the government's plan to build nuclear plants.
Ankara (AFP) March 17, 2009 - Greenpeace said seven of its activists had been detained Tuesday as they scaled a tall building in Turkey's capital to protest government plans to build the country's first nuclear power plant.
Helsinki (AFP) March 16, 2009 - Finland, which is currently building its fifth nuclear reactor, needs at most one more reactor in the next decade, Finland's economy minister told a Finnish newspaper on Monday.
New Delhi (UPI) Mar 16, 2009 - The Indian government withdrew the introduction of a bill that seeks to limit the liabilities of companies setting up nuclear power plants in the country.
Berlin (UPI) Mar 15, 2009 - The German government plans to end a 10-year moratorium by reopening research into a potential nuclear waste storage site, a decision that sparked immediate criticism from the opposition.
