Paris (AFP) Jan 14, 2008 - French nuclear giant Areva, oil company Total and utility group Suez have reached agreement on plans to build two next generation nuclear power plants in Abu Dhabi, Total said Monday.
Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2008 - French nuclear giant Areva announced a deal with Niger on Sunday fixing uranium prices for the next two years and green-lighting production at the billion-euro (1.5-billion-dollar) Imouraren site.
Vienna (AFP) Jan 11, 2008 - 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.
Paris (AFP) Jan 11, 2008 - 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.
Berlin (UPI) Jan 11, 2008 - 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.
Paris (AFP) Jan 10, 2008 - 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.
Cairo (AFP) Jan 10, 2008 - 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.
London (AFP) Jan 10, 2008 - 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.
Madrid (AFP) Jan 9, 2008 - 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.
Washington (AFP) Jan 9, 2008 - 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.
Tehran (AFP) Dec 30, 2007 - 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.
Tehran (AFP) Dec 28, 2007 - 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.
Moscow (UPI) Dec 28, 2007 - 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.
Moscow (UPI) Dec 28, 2007 - 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 Danube, the two countries are in the starting blocks waiting for the main treaty to be signed in late January 2008.
Cairo (AFP) Dec 28, 2007 - 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.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 26, 2007 - 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.
