Swedish police Wednesday arrested two contractors for allegedly preparing to sabotage a nuclear power plant, after traces of explosives were found on one of the men, police said.
Delays and denials of shipments involving regulated radioactive materials used in medicine and industry are of growing concern to safety and industry experts.
China said Tuesday that civilian nuclear facilities and radioactive sites buried by the Sichuan province earthquake were "safe and controllable," state press said.
Lithuania teamed up Tuesday with NDX Energija, a private Lithuanian company, to create LEO, a controversial national investment firm focused on building a nuclear power plant and energy bridges to EU partners.
French electricity generator EDF said on Monday that it had reached accord to share information in the nuclear field with Exelon, the leading US electricity provider.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development agreed Monday to help finance a new protective covering around the Chernobyl reactor, the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident.
China has examined and confirmed the safety of nuclear power reactors after an earthquake that killed an estimated 50,000 people, the state-run Xinhua news agency said Sunday.
China's military said Sunday that all nuclear facilities in the country's earthquake-hit southwest were "safe and secure."
Nuclear power operator British Energy said Friday that it has received several offers from parties interested in the company as Britain prepares major new atomic energy investment.
Japan said Thursday that it had signed an agreement to help Vietnam build its first nuclear power plant.
French nuclear experts on Tuesday said damage to nuclear facilities close to the epicentre of China's massive earthquake could not immediately be ruled out.
French state-owned energy giant EDF, the world's biggest nuclear energy producer, has ambitions to expand into a lucrative future British market with a bid for the leading British nuclear energy producer.
Finland's government is planning to take a decision on whether to build new nuclear reactors in 2010, ahead of parliamentary elections in 2011, the ministry of economic affairs said Friday.
State-owned French power company EDF, in the running for a stake in British Energy, has bought land near two existing nuclear sites in England and Wales, the Financial Times said Friday.
More than half of Finns are opposed to the building of new nuclear reactors in the Nordic country, a poll published Thursday showed.
The French government said Wednesday it plans to create a new agency in charge of offering French nuclear expertise to countries wishing to develop civilian nuclear power.
