Bulgaria is counting on loans from Russia, Germany and France to build a new four-billion-euro nuclear power plant on the Danube, Deputy Economy and Energy Minister Yavor Kuyumdjiev said Thursday.
Slovenia on Monday restarted its sole nuclear power plant after month-long regular maintenance work, nearly a year after an incident there triggered a Europe-wide alert, management said.
Canada's trade minister on Monday launched a promotional tour of Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and the Czech Republic to tout its nuclear technologies.
With the majority of the world's scientists and countries now acknowledging global warming as a reality, its impact on the world's climate is coming under increased scrutiny, particularly in the world's polar regions.
Toshiba Corp. said Thursday its US subsidiary Westinghouse Electric would buy a 52-percent stake in Japan's Nuclear Fuel Industries Ltd.
A French nuclear power plant was evacuated Thursday after a bomb alert sparked by an anonymous telephone call, regional officials said.
French nuclear power group Areva said Thursday it had filed a request for arbitration to try to stop Germany's Siemens creating a rival venture with Russian group Rosatom.
Kazakhstan on Wednesday signed a deal that would see it build nuclear power plants for China, as well as provide its energy-hungry neighbour with more than 24,000 tonnes of uranium.
A consortium of Spain's Iberdrola, Britain's Scottish and Southern Energy and France's GDF Suez on Wednesday dropped a bid for land set aside in Britain for the construction of three nuclear plants.
When Sweden's spent nuclear fuel is to be permanently stored, it will be protected by three different barriers.
Five candidates are in the running to take over from Mohamed ElBaradei as head of the UN atomic watchdog, diplomats close to the election process said Tuesday as the deadline for nominations expired.
Ukraine paid homage early Saturday to victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe 23 years after the worst nuclear accident in history.
Around 2,000 people marched Sunday in Belarus to protest government plans to build a nuclear power station in one of the countries worst-affected by the Chernobyl disaster in neighbouring Ukraine.
South Africa's long-time ambassador to the IAEA, Abdul Samad Minty, said Wednesday he has been renominated as a candidate to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as head of the UN atomic watchdog.
The global recession has severely hammered the world's leading energy producers as oil has fallen from its July 2008 record high of $147.27 per barrel to slightly more than $50 a barrel today.
The head of the UN atomic watchdog warned here Monday that the world's growing appetite for nuclear energy could lead to dangers associated with unsafe technology and weapons proliferation.
