The UN atomic watchdog said Friday it would send a team of experts to Japan at the end of this month for follow-up inspections of the world's largest nuclear plant that was hit by a powerful earthquake last July.
A trio of French energy and engineering groups have linked up to build and operate two nuclear reactors in the emirate of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, French newspaper Les Echos reported Friday.
The British government has approved plans to build new nuclear reactors, a significant signal to the industry and a further push for nuclear's worldwide renaissance.
Nuclear power, despite controversy over safety, pollution and cost factors, is rapidly gathering steam in a race to guarantee energy as emerging economies compete for fuel and particularly oil.
Egypt's first nuclear reactor will be built at Dabba on the Mediterranean coast west of the main port of Alexandria, Electricity and Power Minister Hassan Younis said on Thursday.
The British government approved Thursday a new generation of nuclear power stations, describing the move as "compelling" but infuriating environmentalists who are considering a legal challenge.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero vowed Wednesday to reduce the country's dependence on nuclear power in favour of renewable sources of energy if reelected in March.
Some 130 nuclear experts and non-governmental groups have sent letters to governments to a bid to lobby for curbs on a controversial US nuclear deal with India, officials said Wednesday.
Iran on Sunday insisted its first nuclear power station would be launched in the summer of 2008, despite the plant's Russian constructors saying it will not go on line until the end of the year.
Russia has delivered a second consignment of nuclear fuel to Iran's Bushehr power plant, the official news agency IRNA quoted the deputy head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation as saying on Friday.
According to Zalmay Khalilzad, the permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, the Iranian Six -- the United States, Russia, China and the European trio of Britain, France and Germany -- have at last reached a consensus.
After the EU gave its approval for the Russian-Bulgarian agreement on building a nuclear power plant in the small Bulgarian town of Belene on the bank of the…
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he is willing to help Egypt develop nuclear energy for peaceful use, the official MENA news agency reported Friday, quoting an interview with an Egyptian daily.
Japan's Kansai Electric Power Co. and trading house Sumitomo Corp. will tie up with Kazakhstan's state-run energy company in uranium processing for nuclear power generation, an official said Wednesday.
Taiwan's nuclear power policy regulator said Monday that the island's first nuclear power plant could keep running for another 20 years after its…
Iran's first home-built nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online in around nine years, a top MP said on Monday, citing a report by the Iranian atomic energy organisation.
