Manila (AFP) Feb 2, 2009 - About a hundred environmentalists led a protest outside the Philippine Congress Monday to denounce a bill to revive a mothballed nuclear power plant at a cost of one billion dollars.
Mumbai (AFP) Feb 1, 2009 - French nuclear power engineering company Areva is to sign a deal this week with a number of Indian energy plants, France's foreign trade minister Anne-Marie Idrac said here Sunday.
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 1, 2009 - Japan will shortly launch talks with South Korea and Vietnam on cooperation in developing nuclear energy, with its sights set on growing demand in emerging economies, a report said Sunday.
Vienna (AFP) Jan 30, 2009 - India will next week sign an inspections agreement with the UN atomic watchdog as part of a deal lifting a 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with New Delhi, diplomatic sources said Friday.
Ostrava, Czech Republic (AFP) Jan 30, 2009 - EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said Friday negative public opinion limited the use of nuclear energy in the bloc, but vowed to push it as far he could.
Raleigh NC (SPX) Jan 30, 2009 - Progress Energy's four nuclear plants in the Carolinas and Florida set a record for safe, efficient, carbon-free electricity generation in 2008.
Paris (AFP) Jan 30, 2009 - French environmentalists on Friday assailed President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to build a new nuclear reactor in northern France, saying the project would blunt efforts to develop renewable energy.
Helsinki (AFP) Jan 30, 2009 - While France this week announced plans to build a second pressurised water nuclear reactor (EPR), the world's first next-generation EPR being built in Finland has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.
London, UK (SPX) Jan 29, 2009 - While meeting workers at Sellafield, Derek Simpson, the joint leader of Unite, will urge the Government to push ahead with the nuclear re-build programme to reduce Britain's household bills, create jobs and end our reliance on oil and gas from countries like Russia.
Austin TX (SPX) Jan 28, 2009 - Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants.
Evanston, Ill. (UPI) Jan 27, 2009 - Northwestern University scientists say they've created a material that can trap the radioactive ion cesium while ignoring harmless ions such as sodium.
Berlin (AFP) Jan 26, 2009 - German engineering group Siemens said Monday it is to give up its stake in Areva NP, the reactor subsidiary of French nuclear power giant Areva.
Washington (UPI) Jan 25, 2009 - The National Nuclear Security Administration says it has authorized the start-up of the new Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility.
Paris (UPI) Jan 25, 2009 - Reports have surfaced that French utility EDF will not sell its British power grid.
Sofia (AFP) Jan 23, 2009 - The Bulgarian parliament decided Friday to ask the European Union to consider the re-opening of two reactors at the country's sole nuclear plant in Kozloduy, closed for safety reasons since 2006.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 23, 2009 - Russia will be able to build a nuclear power plant in Belarus without a tender once the two ex-Soviet republics sign an inter-governmental agreement on civilian nuclear power use, Russia's Rosatom said Wednesday.
