Brussels (AFP) April 15, 2008 - EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs on Tuesday stressed the important role played by nuclear power in providing Europe's energy needs and helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Madrid (AFP) April 15, 2008 - Spain's nuclear safety body on Tuesday accused the power company Endesa of downplaying the importance of a radioactive leak at one of its plants.
Brussels (AFP) April 11, 2008 - The environmental group Greenpeace filed an official complaint with the European Commission on Friday, alleging illegal Slovakian state aid for a pre-Chernobyl nuclear power plant project.
Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008 - Russia and Mongolia signed on Friday an agreement on cooperation in the uranium sector, as Moscow pushes to develop nuclear power in the neighbouring state, Russian news agencies reported.
- The United States may soon see a resurgence in nuclear power--if the government approves any of the applications for new power plants currently piling up in record numbers.
Tokyo (AFP) April 10, 2008 - French nuclear giant Areva announced Thursday deals worth two billion euros (3.2 billion dollars) with Japanese firms, tapping strong interest in atomic energy to power Asia's largest economy.
Doha (AFP) April 9, 2008 - Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi told leaders of the Gulf Arab state of Qatar on Wednesday that his country was willing to put its controversial nuclear expertise at the service of all Muslim states.
Paris (AFP) April 9, 2008 - New high-efficiency nuclear fuel meant to burn longer and stronger may prove unstable in an emergency and hard to dispose of, according experts cited in a report published Wednesday.
Moscow, April 9, 2008 - Global utility giant Westinghouse Electric Co. and Ukraine's power utility Energoatom have signed a deal to supply Ukraine's nuclear power plants with fuel from 2011-2015. Under the contract, concluded on March 31, 630 fuel assemblies will be loaded inside three local reactors.
- A commercial application to import low-level nuclear waste from Italy has sparked fears of more shipments from decommissioned nuclear power plants in Europe, but a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives March 13 would ban imports of foreign radioactive waste.
Islamabad (AFP) April 8, 2008 - Two workers were killed Tuesday after a gas leakage at a Pakistani nuclear facility, the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission said in a statement.
Washington (AFP) April 8, 2008 - Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp., said Tuesday it had struck a deal with Georgia Power to build two nuclear power plants in the southern United States, the first such projects in 30 years.
Tokyo (AFP) April 3, 2008 - Japan's Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it is in talks with US firms on securing nuclear power plant contracts, as a report said it was set to clinch the 13.7-billion-dollar deals.
Berlin (AFP) April 2, 2008 - German Economy Minister Michael Glos wants the EU to take into account Germany's phasing out of nuclear power when working out the country's emissions obligations, a press report said Wednesday.
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 31, 2008 - Satellite telecommunication technology developed with support from ESA is being used to enhance the connections between the International Atomic Energy Agency's remote monitoring centre and nuclear facilities around the world, including the Chernobyl site.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 31, 2008 - Westinghouse Electric has announced it has won a five-year contract to provide nuclear fuel supplies to three Ukrainian reactors beginning in 2011. Ukraine relies on nuclear power generation for nearly 50 percent of its energy requirements.
