Tokyo (AFP) May 7, 2009 - The world's largest nuclear plant will on Friday receive formal approval to resume operations, two years after it was shut down following a strong earthquake off the Japanese coast, the local government said.
Sofia (AFP) May 7, 2009 - 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.
Ljubljana (AFP) May 4, 2009 - 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.
Ottawa (AFP) May 4, 2009 - Canada's trade minister on Monday launched a promotional tour of Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and the Czech Republic to tout its nuclear technologies.
Washington (UPI) May 4, 2009 - 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.
Tokyo (AFP) April 30, 2009 - Toshiba Corp. said Thursday its US subsidiary Westinghouse Electric would buy a 52-percent stake in Japan's Nuclear Fuel Industries Ltd. (NFI) for about 10 billion yen (100 million dollars).
Chinon, France (AFP) April 30, 2009 - A French nuclear power plant was evacuated Thursday after a bomb alert sparked by an anonymous telephone call, regional officials said.
Paris (AFP) April 30, 2009 - 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.
Almaty (AFP) April 29, 2009 - 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.
Madrid (AFP) April 29, 2009 - 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.
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 28, 2009 - When Sweden's spent nuclear fuel is to be permanently stored, it will be protected by three different barriers. Even if all three barriers are damaged, the nuclear fuel will not dissolve into the groundwater, according to a new doctoral dissertation from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
Vienna (AFP) April 28, 2009 - 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.
Kiev (AFP) April 26, 2009 - Ukraine paid homage early Saturday to victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe 23 years after the worst nuclear accident in history.
Minsk (AFP) April 26, 2009 - 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.
Vienna (AFP) April 22, 2009 - 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.
Washington, (UPI) Apr 22, 2009 - 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. For Russia, the world's second-largest oil producer, the news has not led to a reduction in production, as on April 16 its Energy Ministry issued a statement noting that it does not expect the country's 2009 crude oil output to fall this year from last year's rate of 9.735 million barrels per day.
