The completed first stage of a nuclear waste disposal site -- the first in Hungary -- was inaugurated Monday in Bataapati, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) southwest of Budapest.
The United States looked Sunday to burgeoning trade, defense and other ties with powerhouse India after New Delhi tipped its hat to Washington for unlocking the door to the global nuclear market.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks Saturday in India on a visit to showcase a landmark bilateral nuclear deal, but last-minute hitches derailed the scheduled signing of the pact.
Thorium Power has announced a significant milestone as the company has signed a Post-Irradiation Examination (PIE) agreement with the Kurchatov Institute, one of Russia's premier nuclear research facilities.
Bulgaria has chosen German power giant RWE to help finance and run a new nuclear plant on the Danube, Economy and Energy Minister Petar Dimitrov announced Friday.
The US Senate has endorsed a landmark US-India nuclear agreement, removing the final legislative hurdle for resumption of civilian nuclear trade between the two countries after three decades.
India's atomic energy pact with France represents a major step for the fast developing country, marking the moment it finally rid itself of its status as a nuclear outcast.
A US-India nuclear pact headed for its final legislative hurdle on Wednesday with last-minute debate focused on concern about New Delhi carrying out another nuclear weapons test.
Iran's ambassador to the UN atomic watchdog said Tehran has dropped its bid for a seat on the body's board in favour of staunch regional ally Syria, state-run Al-Alam television reported on Wednesday.
A year that has seen record-high oil prices has left nations considering alternatives that seemed too expensive or environmentally unfriendly as recently as a year ago, when oil was still $60 a barrel.
There are concrete signs of a renewed interest in nuclear power spurred by a coalescence of motivating trends.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Luminant have announced they have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture to advance the development of two potential new nuclear reactors at Luminant's Comanche Peak facility located near Glen Rose, Texas.
Detroit Edison officials have submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission a Combined License Application for a possible new nuclear power plant at the site of the company's existing nuclear plant near Newport, Mich.
Luminant will submit an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the potential expansion of its Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Glen Rose, Texas.
Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power (Rosatom), has signed the order on the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia's exclave on the Baltic Sea.
The birthplace of the first-ever floating nuclear power plant will be the Baltic Sea instead of the White Sea.
