Electricity Minister Karim Wahid on Sunday invited France to help Iraq build a nuclear power plant, three decades after Paris constructed a reactor near Baghdad that was bombed by Israeli warplanes.
A survey of U.S. electric power industry leaders reflects the impact of the weak economy and indicates their support for nuclear energy.
Firms building nuclear power stations will have to present designs that limit the possible effects of a large aircraft hitting the facility, the US nuclear energy watchdog said Wednesday.
Latvia and Estonia Wednesday said they were tired of delays to a four-nation nuclear power plant project which is meant to help the Baltic states reduce the energy clout of their Soviet-era master Moscow.
Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah said in comments published Wednesday that a French firm is studying a plan by the Gulf state for a civilian nuclear project to produce power.
Iraq has sold its 550 tonnes of uranium concentrate or "yellow cake", built up by former dictator Saddam Hussein, to Cameco of Canada for 90 million dollars, the government said on Tuesday.
French energy giant EDF is eager to extend the lifetime of its nuclear power plants from 40 years to 60 years but the move could require massive investments.
A British court Tuesday ordered a company which managed a nuclear power plant to pay 400,000 pounds after it was convicted of allowing radioactive waste to leak into the ground over a 14-year period.
The UN's nuclear watchdog needs a major cash boost, according to budget proposals Monday that will force members to weigh concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions against the tough economic climate.
Germany's environment minister is defying his fellow conservatives by calling to get rid of nuclear power.
German authorities have discovered more than 150 tonnes of radioactive metal imported from India, the environment ministry said Saturday, adding the material posed no environmental or health threat.
Russia and Turkey are close to agreeing energy deals worth billions of dollars under which Moscow will build a nuclear power station and supply electricity for Ankara, a Russian official said on Friday.
Most Swedish people favour nuclear power as an energy source, a poll published Friday showed a week after the government decided it would not shut the country's 10 nuclear reactor plants.
Iran may be close to exhausting its supply of uranium oxide, or yellowcake, raising questions about the commercial viability of its nuclear program, a new study said Wednesday.
Plans by Albania to build a nuclear power plant were backed by Croatia as a project that could benefit the entire Balkan region at a meeting on Tuesday of the two countries' prime ministers.
Amid deepening economic woes, Argentine consumers have been told they can look forward to more stable electricity supplies from the country's third nuclear power generation plant before the end of this year.
