Niamey (AFP) Nov 18, 2007 - Poor and restive Niger finds itself sitting on a surprising treasure trove -- uranium. The west African state on the edge of the Sahara is the world's third largest producer of an element whose price has soared.
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 14, 2007 - India's troubled coalition is close to a compromise over the future of an atomic energy deal with Washington that had threatened to bring down the government, an official said Wednesday.
Minsk (AFP) Nov 13, 2007 - Five trucks emitting high levels of radiation have been stopped on the border between Poland and Belarus, state television in Minsk said Tuesday.
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 13, 2007 - Communists allied with the Indian government said Tuesday they would let the administration talk to the UN's atomic watchdog about a stalled nuclear deal with the US -- if a key condition is met.
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 10, 2007 - A Japanese company said Saturday it shut down a nuclear reactor after detecting a problem, but there was no radioactive leakage.
Ankara (AFP) Nov 9, 2007 - Overriding stiff objections from environmentalists and opposition parties, the Turkish parliament passed a bill Friday fixing the legal framework for the country's first nuclear power plants.
Kinshasa (AFP) Nov 9, 2007 - Police have arrested seven people, including law enforcement officers, over the pouring of radioactive mineral waste into a river in the southeast DR Congo, Environment Minister Didace Pembe said Friday.
Kinshasa (AFP) Nov 7, 2007 - Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have opened a probe after nearly 18 tonnes of radioactive minerals from primarily Chinese-owned mines were dumped in a river, officials said Wednesday.
Tehran (AFP) Nov 7, 2007 - Iran has built a landmark 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Wednesday, despite international pressure to halt its atomic work.
Ljubljana (AFP) Nov 7, 2007 - A Slovenian nuclear plant in the southestern city of Krsko was fully operational again on Wednesday after being shut down for a month for routine maintenance work.
Manila (AFP) Nov 5, 2007 - A South Korean company has opened exploratory talks with the Philippine government on the possibility of reactivating the country's mothballed Bataan nuclear power plant, a company official said.
Troy NY (SPX) Nov 05, 2007 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is leading a $3 million research project that will pair two of the world's most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear power reactors. The three-year project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, will call upon a diverse team of researchers and institutions to create highly detailed computer models of a new proposed type of nuclear reactor.
Cairo (AFP) Nov 3, 2007 - Egypt has emerged at the forefront of a new push by Arab nations to build nuclear power plants in the volatile Middle East even as the West is locked in a standoff with Iran over its atomic drive.
Tallinn (AFP) Nov 2, 2007 - EU members should use nuclear power as a tool to reduce reliance on outside energy suppliers, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said Friday, amid concern over Russia's political use of its market clout.
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 31, 2007 - TEPCO, the world's biggest private electricity supplier, said Wednesday it expected to go into the red this year for the first time in nearly three decades after an earthquake shut down a nuclear plant.
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 - India's prime minister said Tuesday he was still trying to push forward a nuclear energy deal with the United States that has been blocked by his sceptical coalition partners.
